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‘Cynical’ Tories face backlash over bogus links to food bank
Genuine community activists who have been tirelessly providing food to the vulnerable and needy in their neighbourhood for nearly five years have turned on a couple of Conservative Party election candidates for trying to piggy-back their hard work. “It’s a … Continue reading
Posted in Community associations, South Norwood, South Norwood Community Kitchen, South Norwood Tourist Board, Woodside
Tagged Conservative, Croydon Council, Ian Bone, Jane Nicholl, Labour, Laura Whittall, Michelle Kazi, Sonia Marinello, South Norwood, South Norwood Community Kitchen, South Norwood Tourist Board, Tory, Woodside
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Ali accused of cover-up over findings on council flats scandal
CROYDON IN CRISIS: What was supposed to be an ‘urgent’ report into the appalling living conditions endured by council tenants in South Norwood is being withheld ahead of local elections. STEVEN DOWNES reports Hamida Ali, the leader of the council, … Continue reading
Posted in Clive Fraser, Croydon Council, Hamida Ali, Housing, South Norwood, South Norwood Community Kitchen, South Norwood Tourist Board, Woodside
Tagged Clive Fraser, Croydon, Croydon Council, Hamida Ali, Jane Nicholl, Labour, London Borough of Croydon, Regina Road, South Norwood, Tony Newman, Woodside
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‘Council flats crisis has been heartbreaking, and cruel’
The scandal over the appalling conditions in South Norwood flats rolls on, as the council evacuated some of its tenants into poor conditions – in one case, placing a mother with a two-year-old toddler into what appeared to be a … Continue reading
‘Most dangerous man in Britain’ to stand in council election
Our political editor, WALTER CRONXITE, on a startling development over two ward by-elections on May 6 A lifelong political activist laughably described by the Daily Mail as “the most dangerous man in Britain” has become the first to declare that … Continue reading
Posted in Community associations, Croydon Council, Hamida Ali, Paul Scott, South Norwood, South Norwood Tourist Board, Tony Newman, Woodside
Tagged Croydon, Croydon Council, Hamida Ali, Ian Bone, Jane Nicholl, Labour, London Borough of Croydon, Paul Scott, South Norwood, Tony Newman, Woodside
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Scott called out over ‘gentrification’ of housing in Croydon
JANE NICHOLL reports on how Black Lives Matter activists responded to councillors’ ‘meaningless words’ at a community-led event at Park Hill Croydon Council’s failing housing policies cannot escape criticism, even at a Black Lives Matter protest which some leading Labour … Continue reading
Posted in Alison Butler, Croydon Council, Housing, Patsy Cummings, Paul Scott, Planning
Tagged #BLM, Alison Butler, Black Lives Matter, Jane Nicholl, Labour, Patsy Cummings, Paul Scott
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Aid group in South Norwood thriving despite ‘funding roulette’
Covid Mutual Aid groups have been working day-in, day-out throughout the pandemic emergency to support their communities with food, PPE and a variety of social care. South Norwood is one such operation that has seen a weekly community kitchen blossom … Continue reading
South Norwood’s road closures cause mile-long tailbacks
Our transport correspondent, JEREMY CLACKSON, took a socially distanced stroll around South Norwood yesterday and found the council’s roads experiment delivering predictable results Two weeks in to the council’s coronavirus road closure experiment, and the brains trust in Fisher’s Folly … Continue reading
Posted in Croydon Council, Cycling, Norwood Junction, South Norwood, Transport
Tagged Croydon, Croydon Council, Jane Nicholl, Norwood Junction, Portland Road, South Norwood
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At 8pm show NHS your support with minute’s warm applause
JANE NICHOLL reports from South Norwood where covid-19 mutual aid groups have found a way for a daily break from the isolation, and to helpfully check on the neighbours It’s a little bit like Network, the 1976 Peter Finch dystopian … Continue reading
Posted in Health, South Norwood
Tagged coronavirus, Covid-19, Jane Nicholl, Norwood Junction, South Norwood
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Do you have the Wright stuff? CYTO’s seeking new members
JANE NICHOLL visited the Shoestring Theatre in South Norwood to discover a community arts group that has survived a decade of austerity, yet is thriving thanks to hard work and, in some part, the generosity of a former member The … Continue reading
Posted in Art, CYTO, Dance, Music, South Norwood, Theatre
Tagged Croydon, Croydon Youth Theatre Organisation, CYTO, Jane Nicholl, South Norwood
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‘Descend on the Dorchester’: veterans in demo against stoning
Thousands of people across Croydon have vowed to join George Clooney in his boycott of the Dorchester Hotel because of its owner’s use of the medieval punishment of stoning people to death for homosexuality or adultery. That’s easily done, of … Continue reading
South Norwood ‘nun’ has Rees Mogg on the run at Palladium
A nun hasn’t made as big an impact in the West End since the first night of The Sound of Music. Jane Nicholl, of the increasingly notorious South Norwood Tourist Board, arrived outside the London Palladium on Tuesday night in … Continue reading
Qatari royals in High Court threat to South Norwood pensioners
A couple of Croydon pensioners are being dragged to the Royal Courts of Justice this week by one of the world’s richest royal families, who want to ban them from exercising that old British tradition of freedom of speech. The … Continue reading
