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The Audit Report: Newman won’t say sorry, even to colleagues
CROYDON IN CRISIS: After 15 years of running the Labour group to his own liking, the former council leader is not changing his old, bad habits. WALTER CRONXITE, political editor, reports The Grant Thornton Report in the Public Interest finally … Continue reading
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Posted in Alison Butler, Croydon Council, Hamida Ali, Jo Negrini, Paul Scott, Report in the Public Interest, Simon Hall, Tony Newman
Tagged Alison Butler, Croydon, Croydon Council, Hamida Ali, Jo Negrini, Labour, London Borough of Croydon, Paul Scott, Report in the Public Interest, RIPI, Simon Hall, Tony Newman
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Scott and Butler sacked from cabinet as Tories get their way
CROYDON IN CRISIS: Political editor WALTER CRONXITE on what passed for a ‘night of the long knives’ at the council’s extraordinary meeting Hamida Ali’s first act as the leader of the council last night was to sack three of the … Continue reading
Posted in Alison Butler, Callton Young, Croydon Council, David Wood, Hamida Ali, Jane Avis, Jason Perry, Muhammad Ali, Paul Scott, Stuart Collins, Stuart King, Tony Newman
Tagged Alison Butler, Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Council, David Wood, Hamida Ali, Jane Avis, Labour, London Borough of Croydon, Muhammad Ali, Paul Scott, Stuart Collins, STUART KING, Tony Newman, Tory
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New leader Ali blames covid for crime report that is a year late
CROYDON IN CRISIS: On crime figures, ‘some are going up, some are going down’, according to the newly elected leader of the council, who has failed in a legal duty to deliver a community safety plan. KEN LEE reports Whichever … Continue reading
Tories in call to sack Butler and Scott, and scrap Brick by Brick
CROYDON IN CRISIS: Croydon Labour’s new leader Hamida Ali is facing calls for a complete overhaul of her Town Hall cabinet, from the opposition but also from within her own party, as KEN LEE reports Croydon Tories are demanding the … Continue reading
Posted in Alison Butler, Brick by Brick, Business, Croydon Council, Hamida Ali, Housing, Jason Perry, Paul Scott, Tony Newman, Woodside
Tagged Alison Butler, Brick by Brick, Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Council, Hamida Ali, Jason Perry, Labour, London Borough of Croydon, Paul Scott, Tony Newman, Tory
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New leader Ali is set to confront ‘shocking’ council finances
CROYDON IN CRISIS: After winning a Labour group selection battle by 22 votes to 19 over Alisa Flemming, Hamida Ali tells her supporters ‘the hardest graft ever is about to start’. By WALTER CRONXITE, political editor Hamida Ali has no … Continue reading
Posted in 2022 council elections, Addiscombe West, Alisa Flemming, Alison Butler, Callton Young, Chris Clark, Chris Philp MP, Croydon Central, Croydon Council, Croydon North, Croydon South, Hamida Ali, Ian Parker, Knife crime, Mayor of London, Paul Scott, Sadiq Khan, Sarah Jones MP, Sean Fitzsimons, Steve Reed MP, Tony Newman, Woodside
Tagged Alisa Flemming, Alison Butler, Callton Young, Chris Philp MP, Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Central, Croydon Council, Croydon North, Croydon South, Hamida Ali, Labour, Paul Scott, Sarah Jones MP, Steve Reed OBE, Tony Newman, Tory
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Last council-appointed director resigns from Brick by Brick
CROYDON IN CRISIS: Council-owned house-builder releases some financial figures that show they have missed their latest annual revenue targets by £113m and have delivered 377 fewer homes than they predicted. By STEVEN DOWNES There is not a single representative of … Continue reading
‘None of the above’: 47% reject puppet leadership candidates
WALTER CRONXITE on an expression of public opinion that should be a cause of grave concern for whoever becomes Croydon Labour’s new Town Hall leader tonight Nearly half of Inside Croydon readers in an online poll published yesterday preferred “None … Continue reading
Posted in Alisa Flemming, Alison Butler, Andrew Pelling, Croydon Central, Croydon Council, Hamida Ali, Jerry Fitzpatrick, Paul Scott, Tony Newman, Woodside
Tagged Alisa Flemming, Alison Butler, Andrew Pelling, Croydon, Croydon Central, Croydon Council, Hamida Ali, Labour, London Borough of Croydon, Paul Scott, Tony Newman
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Newman ally Ali tipped as favourite to be council’s new leader
WALTER CRONXITE on the lacklustre contest among Labour councillors to become the Town Hall’s new chief Croydon Council should have a new leader as soon as tomorrow night. But the appointment looks as if it could present the borough with … Continue reading
Posted in Alisa Flemming, Alison Butler, Children's Services, Crime, Croydon Council, Hamida Ali, Paul Scott, Stuart Collins, Stuart King, Tony Newman, Woodside
Tagged Alisa Flemming, Alison Butler, Children's Services, Croydon, Croydon Council, Croydon South, Hamida Ali, Labour, London Borough of Croydon, Ofsted, Stuart Collins, Tony Newman
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Olga who? Another knock-back for Newman over selection
WALTER CRONXITE on how the Labour Party is parachuting into Croydon South a General Election candidate, after a ‘selection’ which even ‘Toxic’ Tony Newman could not fix For the second General Election in succession, Labour Party HQ has decided to … Continue reading
Croydon CLP backs elected mayor over ‘dysfunctional’ council
Political editor WALTER CRONXITE reports on what Mrs Merton might have called ‘a heated debate’ The simmering internal conflict within the Labour Party in Croydon seems unlikely to cool off during the Town Hall’s summer recess, after members in Croydon … Continue reading
South Norwood police meeting leaves public feeling anxious
The latest ransacking of the Croydon FC clubhouse came just days after the police in South Norwood, together with the local MP and Croydon Council’s cabinet member for community safety, staged a meeting intended at rebuilding confidence in the local … Continue reading
Momentum backs Pelling to run in Croydon South election
Political editor WALTER CRONXITE reports on how there is one group of Labour members in the borough who are getting themselves organised Momentum is backing Andrew Pelling to be Labour’s candidate in Croydon South at the next parliamentary election – … Continue reading
Posted in Andrew Pelling, Chris Philp MP, Croydon South, Hamida Ali, Joy Prince, Robert Canning, Tony Newman, Waddon
Tagged Andrew Pelling, Chris Philp MP, Conservative, Croydon South, Hamida Ali, Labour, Tony Newman, Tory
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Community meetings and forms as council tests public mood
How safe do you feel in Croydon today? Recent tragic and traumatising events across the borough have led the council to seek the views of the public on the level of tension in Croydon and its suburbs. This urgent check … Continue reading
Community safety meeting, South Norwood, Jul 19
Posted in Crime, Croydon Central, Hamida Ali, Knife crime, Sarah Jones MP, South Norwood
Tagged Hamida Ali, Labour, Sarah Jones MP, South Norwood
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Governance review costs soar as Newman nobbles the panel
A report on the way in which Croydon Council is governed, already three months late, will now not be finished until the end of the year, and is costing four times its original budget. The Croydon governance review – a … Continue reading
Big turn-out for Country Park walk, while Met waits in the car
At barely 24 hours’ notice, the people turned out in force yesterday to “reclaim our park”, following the series of sexual assaults and daylight robberies in South Norwood Country Park. A Metropolitan Police inspector was there, too, but he chose … Continue reading
Council to spend £2m to upgrade borough’s 100 CCTV cameras
A decade after the matter was first raised in the Town Hall chamber, Croydon Council is about to embark on an upgrade of its borough-wide CCTV system. The council has allocated a budget of £2million for the upgrade, the first … Continue reading
Posted in Crime, Croydon Council, Hamida Ali
Tagged CCTV, Croydon Council, Hamida Ali, London Borough of Croydon
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Council light on detail of how £3m Community Fund will work
The council states it has already contacted “over 200” charities and voluntary groups in the borough over its new funding scheme. It just doesn’t manage to detail how any community groups can access the money, as KEN LEE reports Croydon … Continue reading
‘Hostile environment’ charity part of clampdown on beggars
A charity which has handed over details of its homeless clients to the Home Office, as part of Theresa May’s “hostile environment” deportation policy, is one of the agencies being used by Croydon Council in its “campaign” to clear the … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Charity, Croydon BID, Croydon Council, Hamida Ali, Housing
Tagged Croydon, Croydon BID, Croydon Council, Croydon Reach, Hamida Ali, Thames Reach
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Croydon’s Labour council in crackdown against street beggars
Compare and contrast. While local authorities, and not just Blairite-run Croydon, wring their hands piously over the “housing crisis” as they sell off more council homes than they build, on the streets of London every night, the homelessness crisis gets … Continue reading
One Million Poundworld: store fined after judge smelt a rat
Poundworld, the town centre branch of a national chain, has been hit with a fine of £1.2million for food hygiene and health and safety offences after a Croydon Crown Court judge said: “The smell of rodents’ urine was discernible upon … Continue reading
Council agrees reintroduction of free collections for bulk waste
The reintroduction of bulky waste collections free of charge from Croydon Council, announced at this week’s Town Hall cabinet meeting, comes after lobbying from Inside Croydon. The decision reverses a penny-wise, pound-foolish austerity cut applied by the previous Conservative administration. … Continue reading
Police Borough Commander: ‘I won’t attend a CCC meeting’
Chief Superintendent Jeff Boothe, the first black officer appointed by the Metropolitan Police to be Croydon’s Borough Commander, has confirmed that neither he nor any other officers will be attending meetings organised by the controversial Croydon Community Consortium. Boothe is … Continue reading
Posted in Andy Tarrant, Hamida Ali, Jeff Boothe, Mark Watson, Policing
Tagged CCC, Conservative, Croydon Community Consortium, Elizabeth Ash, Hamida Ali, Jeff Boothe, Labour, Peter Morgan, Tory, UKIP
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