Tag Archives: Jane Nicholl

‘Left alone by care home despite my Parkinson’s, I was scared’

Posted on September 5, 2022 by insidecroydon

CROYDON COMMENTARY: The council’s Social Services department recently paid £1,360 to a private healthcare provider, operated by a large charity, so that IAN BONE, pictured right, could stay in a home while his partner had some respite time. This is … Continue reading →

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MP Reed in possible data breach over South Norwood flats

Posted on April 29, 2021 by insidecroydon

CROYDON IN CRISIS: Starmer’s front-bench spokesman on local government is accused of trying to exploit the Regina Road council flats scandal to boost the election chances of his Westminster assistant. EXCLUSIVE by STEVEN DOWNES Steve Reed OBE, the Progress MP … Continue reading →

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Will South Norwood and Woodside ask the sensible question?

Posted on April 25, 2021 by insidecroydon

KEN TOWL takes to the campaign trail and discovers that in a couple of the more contentious ward by-elections being held on May 6, community mutual aid is getting more of a hearing Let’s be honest – if the Daily … Continue reading →

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‘Cynical’ Tories face backlash over bogus links to food bank

Posted on April 15, 2021 by insidecroydon

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 →

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Ali accused of cover-up over findings on council flats scandal

Posted on April 13, 2021 by insidecroydon

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 →

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‘Council flats crisis has been heartbreaking, and cruel’

Posted on April 6, 2021 by insidecroydon

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 →

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‘Most dangerous man in Britain’ to stand in council election

Posted on March 26, 2021 by insidecroydon

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 , , , , , , , , , , | 6 Comments

Scott called out over ‘gentrification’ of housing in Croydon

Posted on June 15, 2020 by insidecroydon

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 →

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Aid group in South Norwood thriving despite ‘funding roulette’

Posted on June 5, 2020 by insidecroydon

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 →

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South Norwood’s road closures cause mile-long tailbacks

Posted on May 15, 2020 by insidecroydon

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 →

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At 8pm show NHS your support with minute’s warm applause

Posted on March 26, 2020 by insidecroydon

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 →

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Do you have the Wright stuff? CYTO’s seeking new members

Posted on March 5, 2020 by insidecroydon

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 →

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‘Descend on the Dorchester’: veterans in demo against stoning

Posted on April 2, 2019 by insidecroydon

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 →

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South Norwood ‘nun’ has Rees Mogg on the run at Palladium

Posted on March 1, 2019 by insidecroydon

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 →

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Qatari royals in High Court threat to South Norwood pensioners

Posted on February 6, 2018 by insidecroydon

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 →

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