Tag Archives: London

Remembering 8/8 risks provoking copycat troublemakers

Posted on July 26, 2012 by insidecroydon

8/8 One Year On: As we approach the anniversary of the London riots, we will be publishing readers’ and contributors’ memories of that darkest of nights, their views and hopes for the future. Some, though, including one regular reader from … Continue reading →

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These are the questions Croydon needs answered by Westfield

Posted on July 25, 2012 by insidecroydon

So Westfield is claiming 91 per cent of the people of Croydon favour its scheme for the redevelopment of the Whitgift Centre. Just as we predicted. After all, the only thing more predictable than the results of North Korean elections … Continue reading →

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Travelling to London: check out this Olympic transport advice

Posted on July 25, 2012 by insidecroydon

London’s “Zil Lanes”, the network of restricted roads mainly in the centre of the city, go live this morning, barely 24 hours after the shut down of one Tube line and an overground railway line prompted transport chaos for 60,000 … Continue reading →

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Suspicious fire at London Road flats under investigation

Posted on July 24, 2012 by insidecroydon

On the evening after the Olympic Flame passed along London Road, there was another sign of what some fear suggests the sort of criminal behaviour that led to rioting in Croydon 12 months ago. Two appliances and a command unit … Continue reading →

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The summer’s night that changed Croydon forever

Posted on July 24, 2012 by insidecroydon

8/8 One Year On: As we approach the anniversary of the London riots, we will be publishing readers’ and contributors’ memories of that darkest of nights, their views and  hopes for the future. Like many of us, local filmmaker JANET … Continue reading →

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The day a flaming torch on London Road was a good thing

Posted on July 24, 2012 by insidecroydon

Yesterday’s visit of the Olympic Torch to Croydon was widely acclaimed as a terrific success, with thousands coming out on to the streets for what was only a briefest of glimpses of something which is supposed to symbolise the spirit … Continue reading →

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“Misleading and clearly not the case”: Musker speaks out

Posted on July 24, 2012 by insidecroydon

To have one senior police officer issue a statement refuting a front-page story in a local newspaper must be embarrassing for the paper. But to have two such statements issued within a matter of days ought to be cause for … Continue reading →

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Croydon to battle Westfield. In the Combined Counties League

Posted on July 23, 2012 by insidecroydon

You couldn’t make it up. With Westfield, the multi-billion pound property developers, looking to move in on a large chunk of central Croydon with massive redevelopment of the Whitgift Centre, when AFC Croydon Athletic got their fixtures through for the … Continue reading →

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Wallander’s not so miserable after seeing Sarah Lund’s jumper

Posted on July 23, 2012 by insidecroydon

With arts correspondent Bella Bartock entertaining her Wagnerian fantasies at Bayreuth (don’t ask), ANDREW PELLING, Inside Croydon’s contributing editor was sent off to a pre-Edinburgh Festival review at the Scream Lounge What a delight is the Scream Lounge, on Brighton … Continue reading →

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Croydon clubs get £95,000 from Mayor’s sports fund

Posted on July 23, 2012 by insidecroydon

As the Olympic Torch enters Croydon, locals had another 95,000 sporting reasons to celebrate, with three projects in the borough benefiting in hard cash from the latest round of grants from the Mayor of London’s sports fund. Streatham and Croydon … Continue reading →

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West Croydon student asks us all to join World Peace Day

Posted on July 22, 2012 by insidecroydon

Over the coming weeks, Inside Croydon will be running a series of articles that look back to that darkest night of 2011, 8/8. But first, we look forward, with a message of hope and peace from AISHAH MEHMOOD I am … Continue reading →

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All-singing sports agent will transfer attention to Olympic pool

Posted on July 22, 2012 by insidecroydon

The schools have broken up, everyone is setting off on holiday, but in his hill-top office just a free-kick away from the National Sports Centre at Crystal Palace, Athole Still is busier than ever, yet never knowing whether his work … Continue reading →

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A real award won by new YMCA build on Dingwall Road

Posted on July 21, 2012 by insidecroydon

South London YMCA’s Alexandra House in the centre of Croydon has won a prestigious award at the Construction News Awards. This appears to be a genuine award, with contractors Warings selected as winners of the “Best Project Under £10 million” … Continue reading →

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Police “extremely disappointed” with Olympic scare story

Posted on July 20, 2012 by insidecroydon

A senior Croydon police officer has today refuted completely an article published in a less reliable publication that claimed that parts of the borough could be reduced to having just a single constable on duty during the Olympic Games and, … Continue reading →

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Tram slams into the buffers at New Addington terminus

Posted on July 20, 2012 by insidecroydon

A tram has run into the buffers at the New Addington tram terminal this morning. Police were in attendance, but no one appeared to have been seriously injured. The damage to the tram, part of the original Bombardier stock, appeared … Continue reading →

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Croydon anti-crime charities receive £40,000 from Standard

Posted on July 20, 2012 by insidecroydon

Two strong and courageous women, both with inspiring Croydon stories to tell, were featured in the Evening Standard this week, as Tracey Ford, the founder of the JAGS Foundation, an anti-crime charity, and Eliza Rebeiro, the founder of Lives Not … Continue reading →

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Only 18% vote in favour of Westfield’s “plans” for Croydon

Posted on July 20, 2012 by insidecroydon

Westfield is promising this morning to publish the results of its self-commissioned, self-conducted and self-satisfying survey of Croydon residents and what it will claim to be their views on its proposed £1 billion shopping redevelopment of the Whitgift Centre. Don’t … Continue reading →

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Special lunch club launched for seniors on Selsdon Road

Posted on July 18, 2012 by insidecroydon

The latest initiative from members of the South Croydon Community Association is a senior citizens’ luncheon club every Tuesday at La Spezia, the Selsdon Road deli run by Giorgio Raffaelli. The special menu offers soup and bread for £1; sandwich … Continue reading →

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Census figures add up to one thing: we’ve been short-changed

Posted on July 17, 2012 by insidecroydon

CROYDON COMMENTARY: Former local MP ANDREW PELLING says that errors and underestimates on Croydon’s rapidly growing population means that the government needs to increase its grant to the borough, urgently Ever feel the tram or the buses are getting a … Continue reading →

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Labour targets tough-nut Croydon for 2014 borough elections

Posted on July 16, 2012 by insidecroydon

Tony Newman, the leader of the Labour opposition at Croydon Town Hall, was clearly enthused yesterday when he reported the positive response from his party’s members seeking to be candidates at the next borough elections in 2014. As many as … Continue reading →

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Bridge to Nowhere: US expert asks why contracts not enforced

Posted on July 16, 2012 by insidecroydon

A senior public architect in New York City has made a thinly veiled criticism of the handling of the £20 million “Bridge to Nowhere” at East Croydon station by local government funding bodies, including Croydon Council, suggesting that they made … Continue reading →

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Mary Portas, Westfield, Bradford and a £1bn hole in the ground

Posted on July 15, 2012 by insidecroydon

Shops and flats. That, in three words, appears to be sum and substance of the local Establishment’s superficial “vision” for Croydon’s future. It might be a slight improvement on “bread and circuses”, but not by much, and would seem to … Continue reading →

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Hard Times: lessons from Dickens for 21st century London

Posted on July 15, 2012 by insidecroydon

Charles Dickens was born 200 years ago. His books and articles were often firmly based in south London (as David Perdue’s excellent Dickens blog demonstrates) and ANDY FORD says that Dickens, “the champion of the oppressed”, also exposed the rotten … Continue reading →

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Former Advertiser hack among latest corruption arrests

Posted on July 14, 2012 by insidecroydon

Neil Millard, a former reporter with the Croydon Advertiser, is The Sun journalist who was arrested by police in a dawn raid on his south London home today. Millard, 31, and two others were questioned by detectives over corrupt payments, … Continue reading →

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Lives Not Knives takes the campaign on to the stage

Posted on July 14, 2012 by insidecroydon

Lives Not Knives, the campaigning inspiration of Croydon teenager Eliza Rebeiro, stages kim cos tim this Sunday at 5pm at the Croydon Conference Centre, upstairs at 5-9 Surrey Street. Written with the help of script writer Alan Charles, the show … Continue reading →

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