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Concerns for wildlife as leaky Carshalton Ponds empties again
Carshalton Ponds has emptied of water again – and no one seems to know why. Water levels dropped surprisingly quickly overnight Friday into Saturday, prompting Sutton Council to issue an advisory message yesterday which amounted to the authority admitting it … Continue reading
Posted in Environment, Honeywood Museum, Sutton Council, Wildlife
Tagged Carshalton, Carshalton Ponds, Sutton, Sutton Council
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More hot air from Sutton over council’s unwanted heat network
Sutton’s Liberal Democrat one-party state will ask councillors at a meeting on Monday to back extending the Sutton Decentralised Energy Network by about half a mile. SDEN is the council-owned scheme that was supposed to pipe heat from the Beddington … Continue reading
LibDems’ £1m costs and damages in Campanale challenge
INSIDE SUTTON: Time could be running out for MP Luke Taylor, as former party leader Tim Farron joins calls for an independent inquiry into the nasty and illegal campaign waged against a properly selected candidate The simmering scandal over the … Continue reading
Sutton defends its Ofsted failure by claiming ‘no child was hurt’
EXCLUSIVE: LibDem council deliberately delayed publication of damning report to avoid its failures of SEND children appearing before the local elections. DAVE BURTON reports how councillors and officials have broken confidentiality rules and tried to pass the buck Ofsted and … Continue reading
Reform councillor offers thanks to dodgy far-right fraudster
INSIDE SUTTON: Yesterday we reported how the borough’s two newest councillors are already making a grifters’ grab for tens of thousands of pounds in public money. Now CARL SHILTON investigates some of the dodgy-looking associations that Reform’s Alison Long and … Continue reading
Posted in Alison Long, Dave Tchil, Janey Gould, Nick Mattey, Outside Croydon, Sutton Council
Tagged 2026 council elections, 2026 local elections, Alison Long, Beddington, Dave Tchil, Farage, Hackbridge, Janey Gould, Labour, Liberal Democrats, Nick Mattey, Nigel Farage, Reform Ltd, Reform UK, St Helier West, Sutton Council, Tory
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Sutton LibDem ‘should not be a lawmaker’ after court defeat
INSIDE SUTTON: Following a four-year battle, David Campanale is claiming complete victory over the Liberal Democrats who waged a vindictive campaign against him as their own political candidate, all because of his Christian beliefs. By ROSE HILL With local elections … Continue reading
Posted in 2026 council elections, David Campanale, Graham Tope, Luke Taylor MP, Sutton and Cheam, Sutton Council
Tagged Cllr Luke Taylor, Councillor Luke Taylor, David Campanale, Graham Tope, Liberal Democrats, London, Lord Tope, Luke Taylor, Luke Taylor MP, Ruth Dombey, Sutton, Sutton and Cheam, Sutton Council, Sutton West and East Cheam
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Croydon’s rewards for failure laid bare in Town Hall Rich List
Katherine Kerswell, Croydon’s chief executive who issued three Section 114 notices of effective bankruptcy during her time in charge at the council, was taking home salary and pensions totalling £223,838 in the year before she left Fisher’s Folly. Yet Kerswell … Continue reading
Posted in Annette McPartland, Bromley Council, Commissioners, Council Tax, Croydon Council, Dean Shoesmith, Elaine Jackson, Helen Bailey, Jenny Rowlands, Katherine Kerswell, Lambeth Council, Outside Croydon, Richard Simpson, Southwark Council, Susmita Sen, Sutton Council
Tagged Ade Adetosoye, Althea Loderick, Annette McPartland, Bromley Council, Commissioners, Conrad Hall, Conservative, Corporate Director of Resources, Croydon, Croydon Council, Elaine Jackson, Ged Curran, Helen Bailey, Jane West, Jenny Rowlands, Katherine Kerswell, Labour, Lambeth council, London Borough of Croydon, Mayor Jason Perry, Richard Simpson, Section 151 officer, Southwark Council, Susmita Sen, Sutton Council, Tax Payers Alliance, Town Hall Rich List, TPA
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Crowley joins Beddington Independents for election campaign
INSIDE SUTTON: The former leader of the Conservative group at the Civic Centre has deferred his retirement to help see off challenges from LibDems and Reform, as ROSE HILL reports Tim Crowley, for seven years the leader of the Conservative … Continue reading
Posted in 2026 council elections, Bobby Dean, Carshalton and Wallington, Nick Mattey, Ruth Dombey, Sutton Council, Tim Crowley, Tim Foster
Tagged Beddington, Beddington Independents, Bobby Dean MP, LibDems, Liberal Democrats, Nick Mattey, Reform, Ruth Dombey, Suez, Sutton Council, Tim Crowley, Tim Foster, Viridor
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Councillors make call to divest from Israeli-linked companies
More than 150 councillors from across London’s boroughs and London Assembly members have signed a letter demanding divestment of council pension funds from corporations which fund or support Israeli abuses against Palestinians. Yet only one of Croydon’s 70 councillors has … Continue reading
Posted in Bexley, Bromley Council, Dave Tchil, Kingston, Lambeth Council, Ria Patel, Sheldon Vestey, Southwark Council, Sutton Council, Wandsworth Council
Tagged Bexley, Bromley, CIV, Cllr Ria Patel, Croydon, Croydon Council, Gaza, Green Party, Israel, Labour, Lambeth, Liberal Democrats, London Collective Investment Vehicle, Martin Abrams, Palestine, Palestine Solidarity Campaign, Ria Patel, Southwark, Sutton Council
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Radar-based speed cameras to trial in Sutton and Croydon
Roads in Croydon and Sutton are to be among the sites for a trial of radar-based speed cameras. Given that this scheme is being brought in by the Met Police and Transport for London, motorists can expect it to be … Continue reading
Posted in Crime, London-wide issues, Policing, Sutton Council, TfL, Transport
Tagged Croydon, London, Metropolitan Police, Radar, Radar-based speed cameras, Speed cameras, Sutton, Sutton Council, TfL, Transport for London
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Labour councillor finally apologises over vile online slurs
INSIDE SUTTON: The long adios of Sheldon Vestey, the Valencia-based councillor for… checks notes … Hackbridge, has seen him once again hauled before a council disciplinary panel – albeit via video link – after an investigation that has cost the … Continue reading
Planning consent granted for £1bn Cancer Hub in Belmont
Sutton Council has granted planning permission for the £1billion expansion of the London Cancer Hub, near the site of the Royal Marsden Hospital in Belmont. The expansion across a 12-acre site is expected to create 3,000 jobs, mostly in highly … Continue reading
