Tag Archives: Crystal Palace

Triangle will be ‘decimated’ by road closures, warns councillor

Posted on August 3, 2020 by

The Labour group at the Town Hall, already riven with fault lines on a number of contentious issues, is facing another split, this time over road closures in Upper Norwood that have been introduced today under coronavirus emergency powers. The … Continue reading →

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Comedian Brigstocke added to Crystal Palace Festival line-up

Posted on August 2, 2020 by

With just two weeks to go, the Crystal Palace Festival has announced its special guest acts for the live-streamed show from Upper Norwood Library. Top-flight comedians Marcus Brigstocke and Rob Deering have been added to the roster of performers who … Continue reading →

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Christobel Kent talks with Bookseller Crow, Aug 7

Posted on August 2, 2020 by
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Fanatics’ latest campaign helps raise Palace players’ game

Posted on July 11, 2020 by

Crystal Palace go into their final four games of the strangest of Premier League seasons, beginning behind-closed-doors at Aston Villa tomorrow, safe in the knowledge that they are secure in the division for a record-breaking eighth season, and with the … Continue reading →

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Library will be a TV studio for this year’s Crystal Palace Festival

Posted on July 11, 2020 by

The 2020 Crystal Palace Festival is going ahead next month – with live acts streaming directly to your home from Upper Norwood Library. The organisers announced overnight, “With support from the Arts Council, we are setting up a temporary television … Continue reading →

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Crystal Palace lament Kayla, Selhurst Park’s flying mascot

Posted on June 20, 2020 by

Kayla, Crystal Palace’s stunning matchday mascot, has died. The bald eagle had been flown at Selhurst Park before games for the past 10 years, but yesterday Eagle Heights Wildlife Foundation, where the huge bird was kept, announced that Kayla had … Continue reading →

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Bob Marley’s last London gig set to be marked with blue plaque

Posted on June 16, 2020 by

Fund-raising to pay for a blue plaque to commemorate Bob Marley and the Wailers’ final ever live performance in London, at the Crystal Palace Bowl, was more than halfway to its target within hours of being launched this morning – … Continue reading →

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What might have been: how Croydon Trams should have grown

Posted on June 13, 2020 by

Have you ever wondered what the Croydon Tram network might look like if the Crystal Palace extension, or the much-talked-about Sutton line, had ever been built? Loyal reader Anthony Norris-Watson certainly, and he put together something which Ken Livingstone or … Continue reading →

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Call for clubs to condemn Football Lads’ Whitehall protest

Posted on June 10, 2020 by

Hundreds of far-right hooligans, calling themselves “Football Lads”, are planning to descend on London on Saturday to confront the next Black Lives Matter protest. They say that they want to “defend” the Winston Churchill statue in Parliament Square and the … Continue reading →

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Van Aanholt takes easy lead as Hopkins scores more own goals

Posted on June 5, 2020 by

“Twitter spats” are rarely worth reporting on, but Palace defender Patrick van Aanholt last night won widespread praise across social media when he delivered some withering rebukes to that living and breathing example of “white privilege”, the toxic Katie Hopkins. … Continue reading →

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