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Tag Archives: New Addington North
May’s five local by-elections attract total of 28 candidates
There are a total of 28 candidates nominated across five Croydon wards for council by-elections to be held on May 6. The statements of persons nominated were released on Friday afternoon by Katherine Kerswell, the council’s interim chief executive and, … Continue reading
Posted in Croydon Council, Kenley, New Addington North, Park Hill and Whitgift, Simon Hall, South Norwood, Tony Newman, Woodside
Tagged Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Council, Green Party, Kenley, Labour, Liberal Democrats, London Borough of Croydon, New Addington, New Addington North, Park Hill and Whitgift, Simon Hall, South Norwood, Tony Newman, Tory, Woodside
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Time to end borough’s ‘lazy’ political duopoly say Greens
Voters at next month’s council by-elections are being encouraged to end the Town Hall’s unfunny double act, reports WALTER CRONXITE, political editor The Green Party has accused the political duopoly which dominates Croydon politics of becoming “lazy”, with Tories and … Continue reading
Posted in Croydon Council, Croydon Greens, Esther Sutton, Hamida Ali, Housing, Kenley, New Addington North, Park Hill and Whitgift, Paul Scott, Peter Underwood, Simon Hall, South Norwood, Tony Newman, Tracey Hague, Woodside
Tagged Catherine Graham, Croydon, Croydon Council, Esther Sutton, Green Party, Kenley, Labour, New Addington North, Park Hill and Whitgift, Peter Underwood, Ria Patel, Simon Hall, South Norwood, Tony Newman, Tracey Hague, Woodside
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New Addington independent could fry Fish’s chances
Political editor WALTER CRONXITE on a spanner in the works of Conservative hopes of winning a council seat Croydon Tories are fuming that one of their party’s former candidates is standing as an independent in next month’s New Addington North … Continue reading
Tories include a proven liar among by-election candidates
The Conservative Party candidates in the council by-elections next month include one man who, the last time he stood for election to Croydon Council, was accused of telling falsehoods by no less than three bishops, and a woman who allowed … Continue reading
Posted in Bishop of Croydon, Croydon Council, Kenley, London Councils, Lynne Hale, New Addington North, Ola Kolade, Park Hill and Whitgift, South Norwood, Steve O'Connell, Woodside
Tagged Conservative, Croydon Council, Fieldway, Jade Appleton, Kenley, Lara Fish, New Addington, New Addington North, Ola Kolade, Park Hill and Whitgift, South Norwood, Tory, Woodside
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Candidates’ tough task to shake off Labour reputation
Our political editor, WALTER CRONXITE, on how candidates standing in ward by-elections next month have to shake off the stigma of replacing discredited Tony Newman and Simon Hall Kola Agboola and Mike Bonello have been named by Labour as their … Continue reading
Posted in Croydon Central, Croydon Council, Croydon South, Fieldway, Hamida Ali, Jane Avis, Kenley, New Addington North, Park Hill and Whitgift, Paul Scott, Report in the Public Interest, Simon Hall, South Norwood, Steve O'Connell, Steve Reed MP, Tony Newman, Vidhi Mohan, Woodside
Tagged Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Council, Jack Buck, Kenley, Kola Agboola, Labour, London Borough of Croydon, Mike Bonello, New Addington, New Addington North, Park Hill and Whitgift, Paul Scott, South Norwood, Steve Reed OBE, Tony Newman, Tory, Woodside
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‘Shameless’: public react angrily to councillors’ resignations
CROYDON IN CRISIS: If former councillors Newman and Hall thought they would win over sympathy with their resignation statements, then they made another significant misjudgement. By STEVEN DOWNES Tony Newman and Simon Hall’s efforts to claim victimhood when they announced … Continue reading
Suspended councillor puts New Addington home up for sale
The cabinet member for finance who helped set-up the failed Brick by Brick project and oversaw the collapse of the council’s finances has registered a new business – as a ‘change manager’ Simon Hall, one of two Croydon councillors suspended … Continue reading
Latest council failure could be knock-out blow for sports club
A successful and popular community sports club in New Addington has been given until the end of this month to pack up its punchbags and other equipment and move out of council-owned premises. The New Addington Amateur Boxing Club has … Continue reading
Posted in Boxing, Felicity Flynn, New Addington, New Addington ABC, New Addington North, New Addington Residents' Association, Oliver Lewis, Sport
Tagged Croydon Council, Labour, New Addington, New Addington Amateur Boxing Club, New Addington Leisure Centre, New Addington North, New Addington South, Oliver Lewis, Simon Hall, Timebridge Centre
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Going cheap: one Mayoral car, one not-so-careful owner
Cash-strapped Croydon Council has been forced to diversify and go into the duckin’ and divin’ world of the used car trade, just like Arthur Daley. You can imagine the notice in the small ads: “Going cheap: one mayoral limousine, low … Continue reading
Posted in Addiscombe East, Croydon Council, Felicity Flynn, Maddie Henson, New Addington North, Norbury Park, Sherwan Chowdhury
Tagged Addiscombe, Addiscombe East, Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Council, Felicity Flynn, Labour, London Borough of Croydon, Maddie Henson, New Addington, New Addington North, S114, Section 114, Sherwan Chowdhury, Tory
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Life expectancy in Fieldway 14 years less than in Sanderstead
The divergence in the quality of life among some Croydon residents is so great that a woman from Fieldway in New Addington can expect to live 14 years less than her counterpart with a home in the same borough and … Continue reading
Posted in Croydon CCG, Fieldway, Health, Healthwatch Croydon
Tagged coronavirus, Covid-19, Croydon NHS CCG, Croydon NHS Trust, Fieldway, New Addington North, Sanderstead
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Croydon in crisis: Finance chief Hall quits as pressure mounts
Political editor WALTER CRONXITE reports on the latest high-level casualty of the council’s self-inflicted financial crisis Labour councillor Simon Hall, the cash-strapped council’s cabinet member in charge of its finances, has quit. With the council struggling to fill the £70million … Continue reading
Residents quick to see through councillor’s skatepark offer
The mounting anger among New Addington residents over Brick by Brick’s plans for “slumification” of their area has created a sense of panic among the cabal that controls the Labour group at Croydon Town Hall. With four council seats at … Continue reading
Posted in Boxing, Felicity Flynn, Louisa Woodley, New Addington, New Addington ABC, New Addington North, New Addington Residents' Association, Oliver Lewis, Simon Hall, Sport
Tagged Croydon Council, Felicity Flynn, Labour, Louisa Woodley, New Addington, New Addington Amateur Boxing Club, New Addington North, New Addington South, Oliver Lewis, Simon Hall, Timebridge Centre
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Tory Dick has commitment issues over election and pulls out
WALTER CRONXITE, our political editor, on further last-minute candidate shuffling It is not just Labour who seem to have difficulties with selecting their candidates for the Town Hall elections on May 3. Croydon Tories have discovered commitment issues. In New … Continue reading
Posted in 2018 council elections, Ace Nnorom, Fieldway, Neville Dick, New Addington, New Addington North, Philip Sheppard, Tim Pollard, Tony Newman
Tagged Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Council, Labour, London Borough of Croydon, Neville Dick, New Addington, New Addington North, Tim Pollard, Tony Newman, Tory
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Labour’s new slate in Fairfield as Momentum makes a mark
Our political editor, WALTER CRONXITE, with the latest weekly round-up of the ins, and outs, in a tortuous selection process Boundary changes, demographic changes and the Jeremy Corbyn-inspired swing towards Labour has made Fairfield ward in the town centre a … Continue reading
Posted in 2018 council elections, Addiscombe West, Alisa Flemming, Carole Bonner, Chris Clark, Clive Fraser, Croydon Council, Crystal Palace and Upper Norwood, Fairfield, Fieldway, Jane Avis, John Wentworth, Mary Croos, New Addington North, Niro Sirisena, Pat Ryan, Patricia Hay-Justice, Patsy Cummings, Simon Hall, South Norwood, Sue Winborn, Vidhi Mohan
Tagged Addiscombe West, Conservative, Croydon, Crystal Palace and Upper Norwood, Labour, London Borough of Croydon, New Addington, New Addington North, South Norwood
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New Addington Tories confused about what they stand for
As exclusively revealed by Inside Croydon, the local Tories are putting their ‘B List’ candidates only in less-winnable wards. WALTER CRONXITE reports that it appears that some of those Conservative B-listers don’t seem to understand their own party’s policies When … Continue reading
