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No news is good news as BID is living in the past
“A warm welcome to Croydon Town Centre”, the slick website of Croydon’s Business “Improvement” District says. To illustrate this it is using a picture of the sadly missed Warehouse Theatre, which closed more than a year ago for lack of … Continue reading
Has Croydon BID’s get up and go got up and gone?
Croydon BID – the Business Improvement District – is the go-getting organisation, made up of the major traders in and around the Whitgift Centre. Although, when we say “go-getting”…
Posted in "Hammersfield", Business, Centrale, Whitgift Centre
Tagged Croydon, England, London, Mercedes-Benz, Recreation and Sports, Whitgift Centre
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Free beer: House of Fraser’s sports lounge event: May 30
There’s beer on the House (of Fraser) in central Croydon tonight. The sports lounge at Croydon’s House of Fraser is hosting a special promotion this evening, Thursday May 30, from 6.30pm to 9.30pm, offering free beer, nibbles and a goody … Continue reading
Posted in "Hammersfield", Activities, Business, Centrale
Tagged Croydon, England, Fraser, Harrods, House of Fraser, London, Sports Direct
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St Giles School invites you to its annual Fun Day: June 15
St Giles, the special school on Pampisford Road for pupils with physical disabilities, complex medical needs and learning difficulties, aged from 4 to 19, is staging its annual Family Fun Day on Saturday, June 15, from noon to 3pm, and … Continue reading
Posted in Activities, Charity, Community associations, Education, Schools
Tagged Croydon, Education, England, Learning disability, London, Recreation and Sports, Special education
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Addiscombe Festival organisers on weather watch for Sunday
Rain, rain go away… The organisers of the Addiscombe Carnival, to be staged in Ashburton Park on Sunday, May 26 from 11am, deserve a bit of good luck, and a ray of sunshine. Last year’s festival, due to be staged … Continue reading
Cultivating culture is year-round project, not just three weeks
CROYDON COMMENTARY: In a previous column, DAVID CALLAM argued for a festival celebrating the borough’s heritage. But next month’s Croydon Heritage Festival misses the target in a number of important respects E viva la fiesta! Time to party in Croydon, … Continue reading
Posted in Activities, Art, Care Homes, Cinema, Comedy, Community associations, Croydon Council, Croydon Heritage Festival, David Callam, David Lean Cinema Campaign, Education, Environment, Fairfield Halls, History, Libraries, London Mozart Players, Music, Old Palace, Schools, Theatre, Trinity School, Walks, Warehouse Theatre, Whitgift Foundation
Tagged Croydon, David Lean Cinema, England, Lake District, London, Whitgift Foundation, Whitgift School
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Store at beating centre of making Croydon a Heart Town
Croydon is to become a “Heart Town”, with the borough’s new mayor, Yvette Hopley, choosing the British Heart Foundation as one of her official charities for the coming year and endorsing the campaign to reduce the amount of heart disease … Continue reading
Channel 5 looking to pull fast one on Croydon’s petty thieves
How others see us… Earlier this week, there was a visit to Inside Croydon Towers by a television producer who had dared venture forth from his trendy offices in one of those fashionable “quarters” of east London in order to … Continue reading
Posted in Activities, Crime, Local media, London-wide issues, Policing
Tagged Croydon, England, Fagin, London, Religion, United States, Wandsworth
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Croydon hooker manages to come third (with Clare Balding)
Local author Steven Gauge last night had his book, My Life As Hooker, named as the third-best rugby book of the year. That’s surely over-achievement for a book about life with the Warlingham 4th XV, once reckoned to be the … Continue reading
Posted in Activities, Art, Rugby Union, Sport, Warlingham RFC
Tagged Clare Balding, Croydon, England, Hooker, Lewis Moody, Nick Clegg, Terry Venables, Warlingham
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Channel 4 producers seek youngsters to face pay day alone
Posted in Activities, Pay Day
Tagged Croydon, England, London, Religion, West Croydon station
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Inside Croydon’s Hero of the Week: Wilfried Zaha
Cometh the hour and a half, cometh the man. Even some of Wilfried Zaha‘s most devout fans had acknowledged that, well, maybe the young winger had seemed a little weary, perhaps even distracted, since his stunning start to the season, … Continue reading
Posted in Crystal Palace FC, Football, Sport, Wilfried Zaha
Tagged Brighton, Crystal Palace FC, England, Gianfranco Zola, Glenn Murray, Old Trafford, Palace, Wilfried Zaha
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Disability group meets to discuss benefit cuts: May 30
Croydon and Bromley Disabled People Against Cuts (DPAC) is a group campaigning for the human rights of disabled people in the context of austerity and cuts to services and benefits. DPAC is holding a benefit justice meeting in Croydon from … Continue reading
Posted in Activities, Community associations
Tagged Croydon, Department for Work and Pensions, Disability, DPAC, England, Human rights, London, Poverty
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Inside Croydon’s Hero of the Week: Eliza Rebeiro
In truth, Eliza Rebeiro could be Inside Croydon’s hero of every week. Since her mid-teens, this 20-year-old from South Croydon has exhibited considerable leadership, imagination and courage, establishing the inspirational Lives Not Knives campaign. Later this month, all to try … Continue reading
Ecology Centre staging plant “bring and buy”: May 12
The Croydon Ecology Centre at Heathfield on Coombe Lane is staging a plant, seed and seedling sale this Sunday, May 12, from noon to 4.30pm. Admission is free. “If you’re looking for something pretty to plant in your garden or … Continue reading
Volunteers needed for Crystal Palace Festival: Jun 27-30
This year’s Crystal Palace Underground Festival is taking place between Thursday 27 and Sunday 30 June. And the organisers are looking for volunteers. The free four-day community arts festival, now in its seventh year, will start with “fringe” events around … Continue reading
Posted in Activities, Crystal Palace and Upper Norwood
Tagged Croydon, Crystal Palace, Crystal Palace FC, England, Fairfield Hall, Friday, Ian Holloway, London
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Aldi asks Coulsdon residents for views on Red Lion scheme
Another week, another old pub (site), another supermarket. This time, it is the Red Lion site on Coulsdon High Street, long used as a car park, with plans put forward by German supermarket chain Aldi. Aldi has distributed a leaflet … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Community associations, Coulsdon, Old Coulsdon Residents' Association, Property, Pubs
Tagged Aldi, Coulsdon, Croydon, England, Lidl, London, Old Coulsdon, Tesco
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Take a walk among the bluebells on Bank Holiday Monday
There will be a bluebell and spring flower walk around Coulsdon’s Dollypers Hill, including In Wood (a noted ancient woodland area) with Malcolm Jennings, the Surrey Wildlife Trust‘s volunteer warden, and Jane McLauchlin on Bank Holiday Monday, May 6. To … Continue reading
Posted in Activities, Coulsdon, Environment, Walks, Wildlife
Tagged Ancient woodland, Canon, Common Bluebell, Croydon, England, London, National Health Service, Surrey Wildlife Trust
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Campaign groups unite for Croydon’s May Day Rally
The annual Croydon Mayday March takes place on Saturday, May 4. Organised by the Croydon Trade Union Council, the march begins at noon from a meeting point in Elmwood Road, West Croydon, and progresses to Coombe Road’s Ruskin House, the … Continue reading
Posted in Activities, Community associations, Education, Health
Tagged Croydon, England, London, National Health Service, NHS, Trade union, West Croydon, West Croydon station
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A future for the Fairfield Halls? Public meeting tonight
Interesting times for Croydon’s major arts centre, the Fairfield Halls, with the Conservatives who control the council pushing through a £27 million capital works project and announcing this week that they effectively want to “re-nationalise” the struggling centre. Tonight, the … Continue reading
Have you been hit by benefits cap? The BBC wants to know
Do you live in Croydon and are affected by the changes in social security payments, specifically the benefits cap? Nina Robinson is a BBC journalist making a radio documentary for World Service and she wants to speak to anyone who … Continue reading
Posted in Activities, Housing, London-wide issues
Tagged BBC, Caroline Taylor, Croydon, England, London, London Borough of Croydon, NHS Croydon, NHS trust
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Lions omit Robshaw “unluckiest man in the British Isles”
Chris Robshaw had seen it coming over the past month, but today the Harlequins and England captain had it confirmed: not only would the former Warlingham junior player not be captaining the British Lions on their tour to Australia, but … Continue reading
Posted in Chris Robshaw, Rugby Union, Sport, Warlingham RFC
Tagged British & Irish Lions, Chris Robshaw, England, Kelly Brown, Rory Best, Sam Warburton, Wales, Warren Gatland
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Green Dragon offers real ale, good food and all that jazz
Good beer and free music performances continue to make the Green Dragon, on the High Street, probably the best pub in the centre of Croydon. With jazz groups performing at the Green Dragon every Sunday, the pub also has some … Continue reading
Posted in Activities, Music, Pubs
Tagged Croydon, England, High Street, Jazz, London, Performance, Sunday
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Are you Croydon’s Rory McIlroy? Find out at Addington Court
Addington Court is offering a round of golf on its Falconwood course for less than a tenner, in a price-cutting innovation that could help to discover Croydon’s own Rory McIlroy or Tiger Woods, or Laura Davies. The £9.99 offer applies … Continue reading
Posted in Activities, Golf, New Addington South, Sport
Tagged England, Falconwood, Golf, Golf course, New Addington, Rory McIlroy, Sport, Tiger Woods
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Inside Croydon’s Hero of the Week: Marzia Nicodemi-Ehikioya
Marzia Nicodemi-Ehikioya won’t like this. Like that’s ever stopped us in the past. But the Shirley resident is Inside Croydon’s “Hero of the Week”, because she took a stand – or rather a seat – against a jumped-up little tyrant. … Continue reading
