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Councillor slams ‘shameful and deceitful’ waste figures
DODGY LEAFLETS: Local elections are still more than a year away, but the colourful flyers with carefully crafted weasel words are already beginning to appear on residents’ doormats. Not all are overtly from political parties, but as BELLE MONT reports, … Continue reading
Posted in 2026 council elections, Business, Croydon Council, Environment, Kingston, Merton, Nick Mattey, Refuse collection, Suez waste treatment plant, Sutton Council, Veolia, Waste incinerator
Tagged Beddington, Beddington incinerator, Beddington Lane incinerator, Croydon, Croydon Council, Kingston, Kingston Council, Liberal Democrats, Merton, Merton Council, Nick Mattey, South London Waste Partnership, Sutton, Sutton Council, Tim Martin, Veolia, Viridor, Waste recycling
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Shhhh! Purley pub is open again. Just don’t tell anyone…
Loyal reader CHRIS MYERS took a stroll with some old mates, and while someone else got the beers in, he checked out the changes at the former ‘Spoons pub the Foxley Hatch (plot spoiler: there’s hardly any) “Meet the new … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Pubs, Purley, Purley Oaks and Riddlesdown
Tagged Brexit, Chris Myers, Foxley Hatch, Purley, Tim Martin, Wetherspoons
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Wetherspoon’s Purley pub set to cease trading next month
The Foxley Hatch in Purley, one of the last remaining Wetherspoon pubs in Croydon, will have its last day of trading on Sunday, December 3, the company has confirmed to Inside Croydon. The Foxley Hatch was put up for sale … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Property, Pubs, Purley
Tagged Foxley Hatch, JD Wetherspoons, Norbury, Purley, Selsdon, Sir Julian Huxley, The George, The Moon Under Water, The Skylark, Tim Martin
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Six years after they closed it, ‘Spoons’ to sell Grape and Grain
The “Brexit dividend” is really not paying off for Wetherspoons boss Tim Martin, with another landmark pub put up for sale. Probably worse for the area generally is the potentially permanent loss of one of south London’s most popular live … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Crystal Palace and Upper Norwood, Property, Pubs
Tagged Crystal Palace, Grape and Grain, JD Wetherspoons, Tim Martin, Wetherspoons
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Wetherspoons confirm closure of Purley pub as Brexit bites
The Foxley Hatch in Purley is to close by the end of October, one of 32 Wetherspoons pubs put up for sale across the country. The Foxley Hatch will be the third Wetherspoons in Croydon to close this year, following … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Property, Pubs, Purley
Tagged Brexit, Foxley Hatch, JD Wetherspoons, Purley, The Skylark, Tim Martin
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Wetherspoons confirm imminent closure of second busy pub
After a month of issuing “no comments” on its future, Wetherspoons have confirmed that they are to close the popular Skylark pub on South End. The move has been described as “a huge loss for the area”. The decision comes … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Property, Pubs, South Croydon
Tagged CAMRA, Croydon and Sutton CAMRA, JD Wetherspoons, South Croydon, South End, The Skylark, Tim Martin
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Pay Your Staff: Disgusted locals send Spoons a message
No one would be foolish enough to suggest that Wetherspoons’ climbdown yesterday over paying their workers was prompted by it, but some people in Crystal Palace made what they think of the odious Tim Martin plain on Tuesday night as … Continue reading
Wetherspoons boss’s Croydon no-show on his Brexit pub crawl
Tim Martin, the boss of the JD Wetherspoons pub chain, failed to turn up for his own Brexit talk at one of his pubs in Croydon this afternoon. Martin, the founder and chairman of the cut-price pub chain, was due … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Fairfield, Pubs, South Croydon
Tagged Fairfield, JD Wetherspoons, South Croydon, South End, The Skylark, Tim Martin
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