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Sing Bach’s Christmas Oratorio, St Matthew’s, Nov 12
Posted in Art, Croydon Bach Choir, Music
Tagged Addiscombe, Croydon, Croydon Bach Choir
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Croydon could be about to get its first black top cop
Croydon could be about the get its first BAME top cop. According to information shared at a Safer Neighbourhood Team event this week, Andy Tarrant, the present Borough Commander, is to step down and be replaced by Chief Superintendent Jeff … Continue reading
Posted in Andy Tarrant, Jeff Boothe, Policing, Sadiq Khan
Tagged Andy Tarrant, Croydon, Jeff Boothe, Mayor, Mayor of London, Metropolitan Police, Sadiq Khan
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‘Ruthless’ funding cuts to Mayday put improvements at risk
Croydon’s biggest hospital’s finances remain a mess, but progress is being made on the wards, which could be compromised by an announcement expected at tomorrow’s Croydon CCG meeting, as JAMES KILLDARE, our health correspondent, reports Croydon is in the uniquely … Continue reading
Posted in Croydon CCG, Croydon NHS Trust, Health, Mayday Hospital
Tagged Croydon, Croydon CCG, London, Mayday Hospital, Thornton Heath
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‘Chump from the Dump’ chosen to contest Cameron’s old seat
The English Democrats must be embarrassed that they have chosen serial political loser Winston McKenzie as their candidate for next month’s by-election in Witney, David Cameron’s former parliamentary seat. Because two days after this somewhat eccentric decision was announced at … Continue reading
Corbyn supporters in Croydon Labour continue to be purged
With a matter of days to go until voting closes in the latest phase of the never-ending Labour leadership contest, and the purge of Corbyn supporters within the Croydon Labour Party continues, with members suspended and told that their votes … Continue reading
Posted in Andrew Fisher, Croydon North, David White, Steve Reed MP
Tagged Croydon, Croydon Central, Croydon North, Dabid White, Labour, Steve Reed OBE, Tony Newman
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Beats and Eats Sunday Shindig, Surrey Street, Oct 9
Posted in Activities, Music, Surrey Street
Tagged Croydon, Croydon Council, Surrey Street, Surrey Street Market
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Assembly Member’s lunch at the Hilton excludes smaller firms
Steve O’Connell, the very well-paid London Assembly Member for Croydon and Sutton, clearly has no belief in the old adage that “There’s no such thing as a free lunch”. The elected representative is the star turn at a local business … Continue reading
Big Dance after party, Tomorrow Hub, Sep 18
Posted in Croydon parks, Dance, Music
Tagged Addiscombe, Ashburton, Ashburton Park, Croydon, Park Hill Park
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TfL’s £7.6m grant for 20mph zones and road ‘improvements’
Croydon’s councillors will have an opportunity next Monday to demonstrate that they have grasped Einstein’s definition of insanity, and that they won’t be doing the same thing and expecting different results over the spending of millions of pounds on often … Continue reading
Posted in "Hammersfield", Connected Croydon, Croydon Council, Cycling, Environment, Fairfield, Parking, Purley Way, South Norwood, Stuart King, TfL, Transport
Tagged Conservative, Croydon, East Croydon station, Hammersfield, Hammerson, Labour, Phil Thomas, Purley Way, South Norwood, STUART KING, Westfield
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No joke: Croydon comedian Steel reads the bans for Labour
Mark Steel, the stand-up comedian and broadcaster from Croydon who was barred from joining the Labour Party because of his support for another political group nearly a decade ago, has called for some Labour MPs to be banned for supporting … 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
Council fails to staff its own consultation session in Ashburton
Croydon’s non-consultation consultations reached a new nadir over the weekend, when a promised drop-in session about the old library building in Ashburton Park was left unstaffed by council officials. Residents, and some councillors, have long suggested that such “consultation” sessions … Continue reading
Labour officials continue to flout law over White’s suspension
With just three weeks until the polls close in the latest phase of the never-ending purgatory that is the Labour leadership contest, there continues an anxious wait for some party members and supporters in Croydon over when their voting forms … Continue reading
Posted in Croydon Central, Croydon North, David White, Steve Reed MP
Tagged Croydon, Croydon Central, David White, Jeremy Corbyn, Labour
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Council sells Taberner site in secretive multi-million pound deal
Croydon Council has agreed to sell the Taberner House site. The deal has been done within the first month of Jo Negrini being installed as the council’s chief executive, but neither she nor Tony Newman, the leader of the Labour-run … Continue reading
Posted in 2018 council elections, Alison Butler, Brick by Brick, Croydon Central, Croydon Council, Housing, Jo Negrini, Paul Scott, Planning, Property, RIF, Simon Hall, Taberner House, Tony Newman, URV
Tagged Alison Butler, Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Central, Croydon Council, Jo Negrini, Labour, Paul Scott, Taberner House, Tony Newman, Tory
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Open House weekend: see where your money’s spent
Croydon’s somewhat curmudgeonly attitude towards Open House London, the annual opportunity to sneak a peek behind normally firmly closed doors, appears to have been shaken off, finally. But not as far as the not-so-dynamic team in the council’s press office … Continue reading
