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Help Cassandra Centre provide festive cheer for the elders

Inside Croydon’s nominated charity for this year’s Christmas Appeal is the Cassandra Centre We are asking our loyal readers to cof ontribute towards the charity’s fund-raising to help pay towards the costs providing the get-together and meal, which will be … Continue reading

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Inside Croydon’s Christmas Appeal: Help the Cassandra Centre provide some festive cheer for the community’s elders

Inside Croydon today announces that its nominated charity for its 2023 Christmas Appeal is the Cassandra Centre, as it prepares to deliver some festive cheer to dozens of older members of the community. We are asking our loyal readers to … Continue reading

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Labour MP Reed receives written appeal from mosque leaders

It’s a simple enough question. “Members would be keen to understand why you feel that the killing of 10,328 Palestinians, including 4,237 children, can be justified as part of Israel’s self-defence.”

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Thornton Heath Festive Fair, High Street, Nov 25

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Ticket office decision was ‘Halloween nightmare’ for Tories

Hailing yesterday’s decision to reject Department for Transport plans to close railway station ticket offices, one local campaigner has described the outcome as a “Halloween nightmare for the Government”. In July, nine train companies announced plans to close 269 station … Continue reading

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Transport watchdogs reject plan to close railway ticket offices

99% of consultation responses opposed the proposals, with East Croydon and Sanderstead among the stations to attract the largest number of objections It is probably the first cancellation on the railways to be greeted with widespread public acclaim. Plans by … Continue reading

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Lean On Me – World Singing Day, Thornton Heath, Oct 21

This Saturday is “World Singing Day” (whaddya mean, you had no idea??!), and at Thornton Heath Library the Creative Croydon arts group is inviting everyone along to take part in a bit of a community singalong. World Singing Day aims … Continue reading

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Royal Mail’s non-deliveries continue to hit Croydon residents

Inside Croydon readers in the CR0 postcode and beyond have continued to report poor-to-non-existent service from Royal Mail over their post deliveries. Although in one, isolated instance, there’s also been a suggestion of a return to a “normal”, daily delivery. … Continue reading

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3rd class Royal Mail: readers say ‘service not fit for purpose’

The dire situation with postal deliveries in Croydon could be far worse than even the most mail-deprived residents might have feared. Inside Croydon readers from across the borough, and even in other areas covered by one of the CR post … Continue reading

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Royal Mail struggling to deliver 3rd class service in Croydon

The cost of a first-class stamp may have recently been increased to £1.25 – or £1.95 for a “large” letter – but the service delivered by the Royal Mail for households across much of Croydon has deteriorated to the point … Continue reading

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Community campaigns join forces to fight for nursery schools

Parents’ groups call on £84,000 per year Croydon Mayor to provide assurance that none of the borough’s maintained nurseries will be closed Two volunteer community groups have joined forces to organise public opinion against the latest proposed cuts to services … Continue reading

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Stormzy’s football club parts with 2 managers after 5 games

Even Ken Bates or “Deadly” Doug Ellis, old-school football club owners notorious for sacking their managers with alacrity, never got rid of two at the same time. But that’s what international grime star Stormzy did this week, less than three … Continue reading

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Lawyers start to look into Croydon’s temporary accommodation

A public meeting today with public interest lawyers could represent the start of a potentially long campaign to get better living conditions for hundreds of families currently housed in three former office blocks on London Road between Thornton Heath and … Continue reading

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Football club’s new owner Stormzy is up for the FA Cup

Croydon Athletic’s first game under new ownership drew almost nine times their typical crowd from last season – and the 542nd person through the gate at the Mayfield Stadium for yesterday’s FA Cup Extra Preliminary Round was none other than … Continue reading

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FA Cup: Croydon Ath v Sutton Ath, Mayfield Stadium, Aug 6

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Desmond Dekker Day at Trumble Gardens, Aug 19

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Community table top sale, Thornton Heath Library, Jul 26

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Arson, vandalism, neglect: our parks abandoned to their fate

The ill-informed and tiresome calls from the borough’s third-rate politicians of “cut the grass” ignores modern and ecologically sound approaches to the maintenance of our parks and public open spaces. “No mow May” is a thing, and has been shown … Continue reading

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Future sporting stars get £500 boost from GLL Foundation

Greenwich Leisure, the council’s leisure and sports facilities contractor, has made awards to 84 young Croydon residents “to help them along their sporting journey”. Grants of up to £500 – mostly in the form of free passes to public-owned facilities … Continue reading

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Thornton Heath activist Wadsworth awarded union gold badge

By STEVEN DOWNES Marc Wadsworth, the campaigning journalist and broadcaster who was expelled by the Labour Party on trumped-up charges, has been awarded with the highest honour available to his trades union, the National Union of Journalists’ gold badge. The … Continue reading

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Arriva bus drivers balloted for strike action in pay dispute

Bus passengers in south London face further turmoil this summer if drivers employed by Arriva take strike action in a dispute over pay. More than 1,000 drivers, who are members of Unite, have rejected a pay offer worth around 7.3per … Continue reading

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Detectives make arrest in hunt for Thornton Heath murderer

Detectives investigating the fatal stabbing last month of 20-year-old Usmaan Mahmood in Thornton Heath have made an arrest. A 19-year-old man, as yet unnamed by the police, was arrested today on suspicion of murder. He remains in police custody. The … Continue reading

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Trial date for Thornton Heath gran’s murder set for May 2024

Nelly Akomah, the 76-year-old church-going grandmother who was found dead at her home in Thornton Heath last week, died from injuries consistent with strangulation, the Old Bailey heard at a committal hearing. Hugo Da Silva Pires appeared at the Central … Continue reading

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Perry’s cost-cutting puts five nursery schools under threat

KEN LEE, our Town Hall reporter, on the Mayor’s latest ‘short-sighted short-termism’ that will yet again see residents paying more to get less Jason Perry, the Conservative Mayor of Croydon who put up the borough’s Council Tax by 15per cent … Continue reading

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Suspects named in connection with Nelly Akomah murder case

The police have this morning named the two suspects connected with their investigation into the murder of Thornton Heath grandmother Nelly Akomah last week. Hugo Da Silva Pires and Catia Feliciano were both arrested at Stanstead Airport on Friday, apparently … Continue reading

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