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Tag Archives: Croydon Guardian
Local newspaper group seeks funding through a charity appeal
Waitrose’s George Street branch is this month using part of its community charity fund-raiser to support a newspaper business which last year reported profits of £70million and which axed the jobs of around 200 professional journalists. The Croydon branch of … Continue reading
Posted in Charity, Croydon Guardian, Local media
Tagged Croydon Guardian, East Croydon station, Waitrose
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And then there were none: journo No4 quits Croydon Guardian
Will the last person to leave the Croydon Guardian offices please turn off the lights? As the journalists on Croydon and Sutton’s free newspapers extend their dispute with rapacious owners Newsquest over compulsory redundancies, news comes of yet another staff … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Croydon Guardian, Local media, London-wide issues
Tagged Chris Baynes, Croydon, Croydon Guardian, Nick Hitchens, Sutton, Sutton Guardian
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Two-thirds of Croydon Guardian staff to quit the paper
This week’s edition of the local free newspaper, the Croydon Guardian, could be the last seen in the borough for a while. It will certainly be the very last newspaper on which journalists with good contacts and an understanding of … Continue reading
More redundancies at free paper take news off the agenda
Most of the journalists – or at least, any journalists who are left – at local free papers the Croydon Guardian and the Sutton Guardian have been put on notice of redundancy by the company which owns them, Newsquest, in … Continue reading
Striking free paper’s staff reach breaking point over cuts
Nick Davies has had a fair amount of airtime in the last 24 hours. The investigative journalist was the first to break the phone hacking scandal which ultimately led to the Old Bailey trial involving David Cameron’s former communications director, … Continue reading
Philp and MP Reed demand more cash for Croydon schools
Steve Reed OBE, the MP for Croydon North, has found himself an unlikely ally in Chris Philp, the leading donor to the Conservative party who has been chosen as the Tories’ next MP for Croydon South. Both have called on … Continue reading
Posted in Cane Hill, Chris Philp MP, Croydon North, Croydon South, Education, Richard Ottaway MP, Schools, Steve Reed MP
Tagged Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Guardian, Croydon North, Croydon South, London, Tory
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School’s new building may be dazzling, but not in a good way
Don’t know much about art, but know what you like? How about architecture? Inside Croydon received a plea recently to provide an “article more balanced than the original” after the new golden facade of part of Whitehorse Manor schools in … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Environment, Local media, Planning, Schools, Thornton Heath
Tagged Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Council, Croydon Guardian, London, London Borough of Croydon, Thornton Heath
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Council announces street clean-up – just in time for elections
Croydon’s Conservative-run council last night bowed to pressure from the opposition Labour group – and a few prods and pokes from the “Garbage Gallery” compiled by Inside Croydon’s readers – and announced at a Town Hall meeting that it is … Continue reading
Maggie and me: Why I could never be “one of us”
CROYDON COMMENTARY: Ahead of her funeral, ANDREW PELLING assesses Margaret Thatcher’s legacy for Croydon The Croydon Guardian reports that Dudley Mead, the deputy leader of the local Conservatives, can’t recall Margaret Thatcher ever visiting Croydon. Maybe it’s a sign that … Continue reading
Posted in Andrew Pelling, Business, Council Tax, Croydon Council, Education, History, London-wide issues, Purley Way
Tagged Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Guardian, Labour, London, Margaret Thatcher, Thatcher, Tory
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Croydon’s “only a Championship location” says planning chief
As Gavin Barwell once said, Croydon has an image problem. Our photograph, taken in Cannes yesterday morning, of the White Label-managed stand at the MIPIM commercial property trade exhibition, shows that our south London borough is proving less of a … Continue reading
Posted in "Hammersfield", Allders, Business, Croydon Council, Planning, URV
Tagged Allders, Croydon, Croydon Council, Croydon Guardian, France, London, London Borough of Croydon, MIPIM
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Split edition Sadvertiser hit by 44% circulation crash
Circulation of the Croydon Advertiser has nose-dived by more than 40 per cent in just 12 months, according to independently audited figures published today. The paper’s sales bill last week said “Free cup of coffee for every reader”. Judging by … Continue reading
For Falks’ sake: Norwood tunnel’s overlooked coverage
In the past couple of weeks, Inside Croydon carried two pieces on the centenary of the foot tunnel at Norwood Junction: one, here, on its history, the other about the ceremony staged to mark the occasion, where Croydon’s partisan mayor … Continue reading
Posted in Community associations, Eddy Arram, Environment, History, Paul Scott, Transport, Woodside
Tagged Councillor, Croydon, Croydon Advertiser, Croydon Guardian, England, London, New Addington, Surrey
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“War over Whitgift” has planning showdown tonight
The tug of war for control of the Whitgift Centre takes another move tonight, when Croydon Council’s strategic planning committee hears applications from two leading retail developers, Hammerson and Westfield, with the Whitgift Foundation threatening to block plans that could … Continue reading
Posted in Allders, Business, Centrale, Cinema, Croydon Central, Dudley Mead, Fairfield, Housing, Planning, Property, Restaurants, Whitgift Centre, Whitgift Foundation
Tagged Centrale, Croydon, Croydon Guardian, Hammerson, London Borough of Croydon, Royal London Asset Management, Whitgift Centre, Whitgift Foundation
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Wake up Waddon: this really is a £1bn incinerator
Belated congratulations to Nick Hitchens, of the Croydon Guardian, who managed to get the three Waddon councillors on the record to explain why they broke their election promises to “… oppose any incinerator being built in Croydon or on the … Continue reading
Council’s new media chief flogging story to tabloids
Another leak from Croydon Council‘s secretive press department in their lofty Taberner House office reaches Inside CroydonTowers. Danny Brierley, the Burnley supporting former deputy editor of Your Croydon, our very own “Town Hall Pravda” (copyright Eric Pickles), has been promoted … Continue reading
Brothel ads are fine with me, says Croydon councillor
Dudley Mead, the deputy leader of Croydon Council‘s ruling Conservatives, has used public money from a government grant to place ads alongside classifieds for the borough’s brothels. “Cuddly”, who cuts a somewhat Captain Mainwaring figure at the Town Hall, was … Continue reading
The things they say (part 94): Councillor Dudley Mead
“I think it vitally important that Croydon residents understand that before any contract is entered into unless financial analysis is done. No money has been paid up-front and the council will only pay for work when it is completed” Croydon … Continue reading
Is this what you get if you get rid of local reporters?
This was posted today on the website of the Croydon Guardian. Previously an excellent source of breaking local news, in recent weeks Mike Didymus and two other senior reporters have left the freebie newspaper, while its management has been seeking … Continue reading
“Champion Charity” is campaign group against sex trafficking
Here’s a story the Croydon Sadvertiser won’t like. Why? Because the paper, owned within a publishing group that includes the Daily Mail, is still making money from pimping prostitutes in Croydon. According to the Croydon Guardian, “An anti-trafficking organisation that … Continue reading
Posted in Local media, West Croydon
Tagged Croydon, Croydon Guardian, Daily Mail, London, London Borough of Croydon, West Croydon
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Magistrates opt not to cage the Birdwoman of Shirley
Christine Foreman, the Birdwoman of Shirley, flew the coop on Monday, taking wing from Croydon Magistrates after escaping a custodial sentence but with a warning ringing in her ears that if she is caught again feeding the flock of pigeons … Continue reading
