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Learning Disability Carnival, Croydon North End, July 6
Posted in Activities, Dance, Education, Music, Poetry
Tagged Croydon North End, Learning Disabilities, Learning Disability Carnival, North End
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Croydon barista’s tiramisu special has Costa final in a frappe
Croydon barista Polina Shcherbakova finished a well-placed runner-up at Costa Coffee’s Barista of the Year competition staged in Liverpool this week. Television presenter Joel Dommett hosted the event, which was being staged for a 17th year. The competition is open … Continue reading
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Tagged Costa Coffee, Joel Dommett, Liverpool, North End, Polina Shcherbakova
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Whitgift’s The Body Shop in peril as administrators called in
Staff in Croydon store wait to hear their fate, while Foot Locker announces it is moving to bigger premises The future of another shop in the Whitgift Centre is under threat, following the collapse into administration this week of The … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Whitgift Centre
Tagged Administration, Croydon, Foot Locker, North End, Retailing, The Body Shop, Whitgift Centre
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Latest CCTV swoop on North End delivers eight more arrests
The Metropolitan Police appear to have abandoned their regular Thursday afternoon appointment with local crims on North End, and after a month of trialling Live Facial Recognition on Croydon’s main shopping street, the force has mixed things up a bit. … Continue reading
Posted in Crime, Knife crime, London-wide issues, Policing
Tagged Croydon, knife crime, LFR, Live Facial Recognition, London, Metropolitan Police, North End, Scotland Yard, West Croydon
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MP Philp backs calls for ‘Orwellian’ surveillance cameras
If it’s Thursday, it must be Facial Recognition day in Croydon town centre. The Met Police deployed its Big Brother-style CCTV cameras on North End again last week – for the third Thursday in succession – and now Croydon South … Continue reading
Crossbow seized on North End in second police camera sweep
It used to be that Thursdays were late-night shopping in Croydon town centre. These days, the Met Police have turned Thursdays in Croydon into facial recognition day, rolling up on North End with their own “shopping list” of crooks and … Continue reading
50% off and giveaways as Deichmann returns to North End
Deichmann, Europe’s biggest shoe retailer, is making a return to Croydon town centre this week. The retailer has relocated on new premises on North End (to No50, since you ask), as part of a £750,000 complete overhaul of its Croydon … Continue reading
Tory Perry launches ‘Urban Room’ where nothing’s happening
Our retailing correspondent, MT WALLETTE, reports on the latest half-cock initiative from the council to ‘revive’ the ailing town centre: an insta account and a desperate plea for ideas from the public Mayor Jason Perry’s latest feeble effort to somehow … Continue reading
Posted in "Hammersfield", Allders, Andrew Pelling, Business, Centrale, Croydon BID, Croydon Council, Environment, Fairfield, Growth Zone, Housing, Mayor Jason Perry, Mayor of London, Peter Underwood, Planning, Ria Patel, Secret Cinema, Stiles Harold Williams, TfL, Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield, Whitgift Centre
Tagged Centrale, Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Council, Develop Croydon, Growth Zone, London Assembly, London Borough of Croydon, Mayor Jason Perry, Mayor of London, North End, Secret Cinema, TfL, Tory, Transport for London, Urban Room, Westfield, Whitgift Centre, Whitgift Foundation
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Primark’s Croydon and Sutton stores in click and collect trial
Primark stores in central Croydon and Sutton are part of a London-wide trial of a new click and collect service. The trial’s launch comes as Primark announces plans to lower prices on hundreds of its autumn-winter range of kidswear products. … Continue reading
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Tagged Croydon, Croydon High Street, North End, Primark, St Nicholas Centre, Sutton, Tooting
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Now German shoe retailer decides to give Croydon the boot
Shoe retailer Deichmann is the latest business to decide to close their store in central Croydon. As Inside Croydon reported exclusively earlier this week, the Sainsbury’s supermarket in the Whitgift Centre, which has traded there ever since the shopping mall … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield, Whitgift Centre
Tagged Croydon, Deichmann, North End, Sainsbury's, Westfield, Whitgift Centre
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WH Smith is latest Whitgift Centre store to shut up shop
Our retailing correspondent, MT WALLETTE, on the latest (partial) closure on Croydon’s already badly run-down High Street WH Smith, one of the mainstays of the Whitgift Centre ever since it opened more than 50 years ago, is about to downsize … Continue reading
Posted in "Hammersfield", Business, Whitgift Centre
Tagged Croydon, Hammersfield, Hammerson, North End, Waitrose, Westfield, WH Smith, Whitgift Centre, Whitgift Foundation
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BID rangers called ‘bullies in high-viz’ after High Street incident
CROYDON IN CRISIS: Serious questions have been raised about the behaviour of the Mayor-backed security staff drafted into the town centre supposedly to deter anti-social behaviour. EXCLUSIVE by STEVEN DOWNES An investigation is being conducted into the behaviour of a … Continue reading
McDonald’s hands out thousands of books on Croydon tour
McDonald’s is set to donate thousands of books to children in Croydon as part of its national literacy campaign helping disadvantaged children across the country. Croydon at the end of August was the first stop in a nationwide tour during … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Education, Libraries
Tagged Happy Reader Book Tour, McDonald's, North End
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Perry’s PSPO will just move ‘problems’ out of town centre
Dressed up as a ‘war on anti-social behaviour’ and used as an excuse for clearing the streets of drinkers, the latest proposals will allow the cash-strapped council to issue money-making fines for often trivial offences. By our Town Hall reporter, … Continue reading
Posted in Broad Green, Business, Crime, Croydon BID, Croydon Council, Dave Stringer, East Croydon, Fairfield, Mayor Jason Perry, Policing, Pubs, Surrey Street, Waddon, West Croydon, Whitgift Centre
Tagged Broad Green, Conservative, Croydon, Croydon BID, Croydon Council, Croydon Mayor, Dave Stringer, Fairfield, Mayor Jason Perry, Mayor of Croydon, North End, PSPO, Surrey Street, Tory, Waddon
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How wait for Westfield is turning North End into Hooky Street
Serious doubts exist over Westfield’s plans to redevelop in the town centre. Yet while the council does its best to close down legitimate high street businesses, or mismanages one of the country’s oldest traditional street markets and drives away stall-holders, … Continue reading
BRIT School is going live with town centre dance and drama
The BRIT School will be providing the entertainment for town centre shoppers with a series of pop performances this month. BRIT Presents begins later this month, a programme of outdoor showcases in public spaces, which will run through to Christmas … Continue reading
Posted in BRIT School, Business, Centrale, Croydon BID, Dance, Music, Theatre
Tagged Brit School, Centrale, North End
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One Million Poundworld: store fined after judge smelt a rat
Poundworld, the town centre branch of a national chain, has been hit with a fine of £1.2million for food hygiene and health and safety offences after a Croydon Crown Court judge said: “The smell of rodents’ urine was discernible upon … Continue reading
Croydon Careers Fair, North End, June 30
Posted in Business, Centrale, Community associations, Lives Not Knives
Tagged careers, careers fair, Centrale, Croydon, jobs, North End
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Planning chief: ‘I don’t know how long Whitgift will be closed’
The lack of clarity over the immediate future of the Whitgift Centre was compounded yesterday when a council director called in certain sections of the local media to provide an on-the-record briefing to contradict the information she had herself provided … Continue reading
Posted in "Hammersfield", Allders, Bernard Weatherill House, Business, Centrale, Croydon Council, Jo Negrini, Nathan Elvery, Planning, Whitgift Centre
Tagged Centrale, Conservative, Council Tax, Croydon, Croydon Council, Jo Negrini, Nathan Elvery, North End, Tory, Whitgift Centre, Whitgift Foundation
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