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Tag Archives: Christmas
A Merry Christmas to Inside Croydon’s loyal reader
And that’s it from us for a couple of days. We’ll be back on Thursday, December 27, with our usual news-breaking, award-winning journalism from the heart of Croydon. Before the end of the year, we will be revealing… The £20million … Continue reading
Christmas Fair, St Stephen’s, Thornton Heath, Dec 3
St Stephen’s Church, Thornton Heath CHRISTMAS FAIR 3rd December
Posted in Activities, Church and religions, Thornton Heath
Tagged Christmas, Croydon, St Stephen's Church, Thornton Heath
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Howard Primary School Christmas Fair, Dec 3
Posted in Activities, Charity, Howard Primary, Schools
Tagged Christmas, Howard Primary School, South Croydon
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Lucy and The Crinoggle Pie, Stanley Halls, Dec 20-22
Posted in Art, Stanley Halls, Theatre
Tagged Christmas, South Norwood, Stanley Halls
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Howard Primary School’s Christmas Fair, Dec 5
Posted in Charity, Community associations, Howard Primary, Joy Prince, Waddon
Tagged Christmas, Howard Primary School, Joy Prince
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St Mildred’s Christmas Market, Addiscombe, Dec 5
Posted in Activities, Addiscombe West, Charity, Church and religions
Tagged Addiscombe West, Christmas, St Midlred's
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St Matthew’s Church Christmas Fair, Nov 28
Posted in Activities, Church and religions, Fairfield
Tagged Christmas, Fairfield, Park Hill, St Matthew's Church
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Now UKIP’s Winston McKenzie wants to ban Christmas
Winston McKenzie, Nigel Farage’s UKIP candidate for Croydon North at next year’s General Election, wants to stop his branch members from holding a Christmas party. Locally, McKenzie has become known as the “Chump from the Dump” since his televised remarks … Continue reading
Posted in Croydon North, Winston McKenzie
Tagged Christmas, Croydon North, UKIP, Winston McKenzie
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Concert of Christmas Music, St Luke’s, Woodside, Dec 13
Posted in Charity, Church and religions, Music, Woodside
Tagged Christmas, Concert, Croydon, Music
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You can help Coulsdon stage its Yulefest, Dec 6-7
Can you help to bring a Christmas festival to Coulsdon this year? Yulefest is a self-funded group with no council funding, trying to make Coulsdon town a very memorable place this Christmas. An open-air ice rink, a Santa’s grotto, fairground … Continue reading
Croydon Council’s “non-drop” trees that cost us all extra
Tomorrow, our neighbours in Sutton will be able to mark the end of the holiday period by placing their used and unwanted dying old Christmas trees outside their homes for collection, free of charge, by the local council. In Lambeth, … Continue reading
Posted in 2014 council elections, Croydon Council, Environment, Fly tipping, Gardening, Lambeth Council, Refuse collection, Sutton Council
Tagged Christmas, Conservative, Council Tax, Croydon, Croydon Council, Environment, Fly-tipping, London Borough of Croydon, Mike Fisher, re-cycling, rubbish
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Social services handed out food donations over Christmas
Food donations made by Croydon Council staff for the poor and vulnerable over Christmas were distributed directly by local social services ahead of the holiday break, sources have confirmed to Inside Croydon. Croydon Council’s annual charity food collection was previously highlighted … Continue reading
New Waddon leisure centre is forced to close swimming pool
Waddon Leisure Centre, one of Croydon’s Tory council’s prestige projects, has had to close its main pool “until further notice” – because it’s getting a supply of extra water coming in from outside. The leisure centre management made the decision … Continue reading
Posted in Health, Sport, URV, Waddon
Tagged Christmas, Croydon, Croydon Council, Leisure centre, London, London Borough of Croydon, New Year, Upper Norwood Library
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Pinewood Close lights up Shirley for Christmas
Some people must like them – the houses dressed in exterior lights as if they are a Christmas tree. And at Pinewood Close in Shirley, they even use their festive light displays to raise money for charity. Despite the rotten … Continue reading
Posted in Activities, Charity, Community associations, Shirley
Tagged Christmas, Croydon, Great Ormond Street Hospital, London, Shirley
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Shabden Park Farm Christmas market: Mon Dec 23
If you haven’t yet bought your Christmas turkey, then you might want to try the festive December Farmers’ Market at Shabden Park Farm, just south of Coulsdon, on Monday, December 23. Shabden Park Farm is an assured farm: they only … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Coulsdon, Environment
Tagged Christmas, Coulsdon, Countryside Stewardship Scheme, Croydon, Shopping
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Director says council has not lost money on Davis House
It is little wonder that Croydon Council lacks the money to pay for lollipop school traffic patrols or to maintain the borough’s historic links with Arnhem, and is making more than 60 staff members jobless just in time for Christmas, … Continue reading
Posted in Bernard Weatherill House, Business, Croydon Council, Nathan Elvery, Planning, URV
Tagged Christmas, Croydon, Croydon Council, England, London, London Borough of Croydon, Mayor of London
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Gonville schoolboy wins competition to design MP’s card
Ten-year-old schoolboy Lewis Dyges from Gonville Primary in Thornton Heath has won a special prize for providing the design for local MP Steve Reed’s Christmas card – but he won’t find out what the prize is until Christmas day, because he … Continue reading
Posted in Croydon North, Gonville Primary, Schools, Steve Reed MP
Tagged Christmas, Croydon, England, London, Thornton Heath
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Off their trolley: council’s sorry whip-round for families in crisis
If you had any doubt whether the people of Croydon need to help the homeless and poor of the borough, because they cannot rely on their elected councillors to provide food and other assistance, then they have only to consider this … Continue reading
Which councillors attended Town Hall Christmas banquet?
Many thanks to all those who have already expressed support, and donated or offered other help, to Croydon Nightwatch as a result of Inside Croydon’s Christmas appeal. We have noted before the proximity, and stark contrast, between the grinding poverty … Continue reading
Our Christmas Appeal 2013: Help Croydon Nightwatch
STEVEN DOWNES, the founder of Inside Croydon, calls on this site’s loyal reader to make a difference this Christmas We were walking back from the Fairfield Halls. It was just after nine, one of the first really freezing cold nights … Continue reading
Posted in Charity, Croydon Nightwatch
Tagged Christmas, Croydon, Croydon Central, Fairfield Halls, London, London Borough of Croydon, Soup kitchen
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