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Tag Archives: Norbury
Hope Is Everything: Rookery gardens gets a Gervais bench
Today is supposed to be “Blue Monday”, which some claim to be the gloomiest day of the year. But depression doesn’t care what day it is, which is one of the reasons why CALM – the Campaign Against Living Miserably … Continue reading
Posted in Croydon parks, Gardening, Health, Norbury, Outside Croydon
Tagged After Life, Netflix, Norbury, Ricky Gervais, Streatham, Streatham Common, The Rookery
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Silent Disco fundraiser, Harlow Hall, Norbury, Dec 30
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Tagged Harlow Hall, Norbury
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Norbury SEND Family and Friends Club, Dec 20-23, 29-30
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Tagged Cassandra Centre, Norbury
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Free First Aid course, Harlow Hall, Norbury, Sep 23
Posted in Charity, Community associations, Education, Health
Tagged Cassandra Centre, First Aid, Norbury
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Veteran cars are back on the road for 125th run on Nov 7
Hundreds of veteran cars are gearing up for this year’s very special commemorative pilgrimage from capital to coast, via Croydon. Close to 300 pioneering veteran cars dating back to the dawn of motoring have entered this year’s very special staging … Continue reading
Posted in Activities, Coulsdon, History, Norbury, Purley, Thornton Heath
Tagged Coulsdon, London to Brighton Veteran Car Rally, Norbury, Purley, South Croydon, Thornton Heath
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Six fire engines deal swiftly with Norbury bungalow fire
Firefighters have tackled a blaze at a house on Pollards Hill South in Norbury this morning. The roof and a small part of the first floor of a detached chalet bungalow were damaged by the fire. One man left the … Continue reading
Posted in London Fire Brigade, Norbury
Tagged London Fire Brigade, Norbury, Pollards Hill
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#Binmageddon: 1,000 street bins have vanished from borough
CROYDON IN CRISIS: Council agreed to pay its rubbish contractor an extra £20.7m while it reduced the services they are expected to deliver, leaving the borough’s streets ever dirtier. EXCLUSIVE by SANJANA IDNANI Around 1,000 bins have been vanished from … Continue reading
Norbury domestic violence charity hit by third burglary in year
By SARAH O’CONNELL On Thursday night, the Cassandra Centre, a charity in Norbury that works with the victims of domestic violence, suffered a break-in and theft of equipment. It was the third break-in at the centre in the last 12 … Continue reading
Posted in Charity, Crime, Norbury
Tagged Cassandra Centre, Jennifer McDermott, Metropolitan Police, Norbury
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Door-to-door testing rolled out to locate covid-19 variant
A mass testing programme was rolled out this morning in the CR4 postcode area in a determined effort to locate people with a highly infectious variant of coronavirus. On-the-spot doorstep tests, home testing kits and mobile testing units are to … Continue reading
Posted in Health, London-wide issues, Norbury, Siobhain McDonagh MP
Tagged coronavirus, Covid-19, Mitcham, Norbury, Pollards Hill, Siobhain McDonagh MP
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Norbury comedian scores a winner with first football book
ELLA HOPKINS on how a son’s post-match reproach helped inspire Kevin Day to fulfil a lifetime’s ambition Kevin Day has always enjoyed reading. He dreamed of writing a book of his own one day. His dad taught him to read … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Comedy, Crystal Palace FC, Football, Sport
Tagged Crystal Palace, Have I Got News For You, Kevin Day, Match of the Day, Norbury, Selhurst Park
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Covid restrictions force RAC to cancel Veteran Car Run
The London to Brighton Veteran Car Run has been cancelled due to coronavirus. It is the first time that the rally has had to be cancelled since World War II. The rally, which features around 300 museum-piece vehicles, most of … Continue reading
Posted in Activities, History
Tagged Coulsdon, London to Brighton Veteran Car Rally, Norbury, Purley, South Croydon, Thornton Heath
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Cassandra Centre Art in the Park, Rookery Gardens, Aug 21
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Tagged Cassandra Centre, Norbury, The Rookery
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Cassandra Centre kids’ summer Zoom arts classes, Aug 11-13
Please note the amended timings
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Cassandra Centre kids’ photography competition, Aug 10-17
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Brick by Brick claim building on green space is ‘sustainable’
If there was any doubt of the contempt in which the residents of this borough are held by the six-figure salaried executives at Brick by Brick and their paymasters at Croydon Council, then one need only look at the back-slapping … Continue reading
Green spaces under threat as Scott seeks to ignore covenants
Our housing correspondent, BARRATT HOLMES, on the latest Brick by Brick schemes which will concrete over green space, destroy mature trees and even tear up a legal covenant that dates back to the 19th century Thursday’s virtual planning meeting will … Continue reading
Posted in Alisa Flemming, Andrew Stranack, Brick by Brick, Croydon Council, Environment, Housing, Norbury Park, Paul Scott, Planning, Selsdon Vale and Forestdale, Sherwan Chowdhury
Tagged Andy Stranack, Brick by Brick, Covington Way, Croydon Council, Hawthorn Crescent, Labour, London Borough of Croydon, Norbury, Norbury Park, Paul Scott, Selsdon Vale and Forestdale
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Council sneaks out details of extension to planning objections
The public has been given an extra week to lodge objections to planning applications in the borough – not that Paul Scott and Croydon Council want anyone to know about it. The council’s propaganda department sneaked out its latest press … Continue reading
Posted in Brick by Brick, Croydon Council, Paul Scott
Tagged Brick by Brick, BxB, Croydon, Croydon Council, Labour, London Borough of Croydon, New Addington, Norbury, Paul Scott
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Residents call for volunteers for Norbury Hall Park clean-up
The Friends of Norbury Hall Park are appealing for volunteers to join their clean-up this Saturday, February 29. The “Squirrel Park” is very popular with its community, but with a reduced amount of maintenance, it has become tired, run-down and … Continue reading
Norbury residents start fighting fund for BxB legal challenge
Residents in Norbury have launched a fighting fund a possible challenge through the courts to a Brick by Brick housing scheme which, they maintain, will build on land over which there is a legally binding covenant which forbids development. Other … Continue reading
Posted in Brick by Brick, Community associations, Croydon Council, Helen Pollard, Norbury
Tagged Brick by Brick, Covington Way, Helen Pollard, Norbury
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