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‘Based on this year’s elections, Croydon is in a very bad place’
SPECIAL INVESTIGATION: Reports over Croydon’s local elections have been lodged with the Electoral Commission and with Scotland Yard. EXCLUSIVE by STEVEN DOWNES There could yet be further repercussions around Katherine Kerswell’s chronic mishandling of Croydon’s “never-ending” election count, which earlier … Continue reading
Posted in 2022 council elections, 2022 Croydon Mayor election, Andrew Pelling, Carole Bonner, Croydon Council, Jon Rouse, Katherine Kerswell, Mayor Jason Perry, South Croydon, Trinity School, Val Shawcross
Tagged Andrew Pelling, Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Council, Croydon Mayor, Croydon Mayoral election 2022, Electoral Commission, Katherine Kerswell, Labour, Liberal Democrats, London Borough of Croydon, Mayor, Mayor Jason Perry, Metropolitan Police, Richard Howard, South Croydon, Tory, Trinity School, Val Shawcross, Whitgift Foundation
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Council has been left ill-equipped to handle election logistics
CROYDON COMMENTARY: Round after round of redundancies at the council, going back more than a decade, may have led to the shambles of the election count, according to former senior council official ROD DAVIES Without a thorough and open review … Continue reading
Kerswell’s election count will get off to a very slow start
WALTER CRONXITE, political editor, on a sad end to another Croydon tradition Another decision by cash-strapped Croydon Council is responsible for the end of yet another tradition: Inside Croydon’s unrivalled and extensive dusk-to-dawn election night coverage of the count. That’s … Continue reading
Posted in 2022 council elections, 2022 Croydon Mayor election, Croydon Council, Katherine Kerswell, Trinity School
Tagged 2022 Local Elections, 2022 Mayoral election, Croydon Council, Croydon Mayor, Croydon Mayoral election 2022, Democratically Elected Mayor of Croydon, Katherine Kerswell, Trinity School
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Trinity lift rugby’s National Cup after tense Twickenham final
South London’s dominance over schools rugby in England continues after Trinity School had its name engraved on to the National Schools Cup following a tense 15-10 win at Twickenham Stadium over Kirkham Grammar. The Croydon team were always in front, … Continue reading
Posted in Rugby Union, Schools, Sport, Trinity School
Tagged National Schools Cup, Trinity School
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Trinity pupil hits all the right notes to win Steinway competition
Ed Warner has been named as the winner of the 2021 Trinity-Steinway Scholarship, after a day-long set of performances under the gaze of staff at the Royal College of Music. The Trinity-Steinway Scholarship is a collaboration between Trinity, Steinway and … Continue reading
Posted in Music, Schools, Trinity School
Tagged Ed Warner, Royal College of Music, Steinway, Trinity School
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Big Bang judges give big hand to Trinity teenager’s bionic arm
Surya Vijayanand, a sixth-former at Trinity School in Shirley, has been named overall winner in this year’s Big Bang science and technology competition after he designed and developed a bionic arm and hand with only a limited budget and using … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Schools, Trinity School
Tagged EngineeringUK, Surya Vijayanand, The Big Bang Competition, Trinity School
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Trinity sixth-former lands role in Netflix’s latest teen series
Will Hardy, a sixth-former at Trinity School, has been cast in Heartstopper, an adaptation of Alice Oseman’s graphic novels which is to be screened by Netflix. Hardy was selected after an open audition in which 10,000 young actors took part, … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Cinema, Trinity School
Tagged Alice Oseman, Heartstopper, Netflix, Trinity School, Will Hardy
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Trinity gets top marks for their pizza delivery to hospital
NHS key workers will be getting a special pizza delivery in time for Easter, thanks to a fund-raiser carried out among pupils, staff and parents at Trinity School. Trinity is always looking for ways to support the local community. In … Continue reading
Posted in Mayday Hospital, Schools, Trinity School
Tagged coronavirus, Covid-19, Croydon, Mayday Hospital, Trinity School
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Trinity’s Christmas song raises thousands for the homeless
Richard Holdsworth, the music master at Trinity School, has written and performed, together with pupils, a special Christmas charity record which has raised thousands of pounds for the homeless. Almost Christmas, was released via crowdfunding sites and YouTube over the … Continue reading
Posted in Charity, Music, Schools, Trinity School
Tagged Crisis, Richard Holdsworth, Trinity School
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South London duo included in England’s World Cup final team
There will be two players in England’s team for Saturday’s Rugby World Cup final in Japan who learned the game on the playing fields of south London. But when Elliot Daly runs out at Yokohama alongside prop forward Kyle Sinkler … Continue reading
Butcher: England should put their ‘batting brute’ Roy in at No3
Surrey’s Jason Roy should be in the England Test team’s top order for the Ashes series and has a hugely important role in tomorrow’s World Cup semi-final against Australia. That’s the view of Mark Butcher, the former Surrey and England … Continue reading
Croydon Symphony Orchestra concert, Trinity School, Feb 16
Posted in Croydon Symphony Orchestra, Music
Tagged Croydon Symphony Orchestra, Trinity School
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After 65 years, MidWives could deliver club with new name
There is a meeting tomorrow night at one of the area’s biggest rugby clubs, Old Mid-Whitgiftian RFC, to discuss changing the club’s name. The rugby club proposal comes a mere 65 years since the old boys’ school changed its name … Continue reading
Trinity is named in country’s top eight independent schools
Trinity School in Shirley Park has been shortlisted for the Independent School of the Year award by the Times Educational Supplement. The £17,500-a-year private school, part of the Whitgift Foundation, is one of eight named on the shortlist for the … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Schools, Shirley, Trinity School
Tagged Alasdair Kennedy, Shirley, Shirley Park, Trinity School, Whitgift Foundation
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Win a pair of free tickets to top-class Croydon Proms concert
Inside Croydon is delighted to announce another great prize competition, this time exclusively for the website’s growing band of supporters. The lucky winner will get two free tickets – worth £30 – to attend the Trinity Proms Concert at Trinity … Continue reading
Posted in Inside Croydon, Music, Trinity School
Tagged Trinity Boys' Choir, Trinity School
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Negrini faces challenges over ‘shambolic’ election count
Town Hall reporter KEN LEE on the suggestion that the £200,000 per year council CEO couldn’t organise a rowdy drink-up in a brewery The competence, or lack of it, of the council’s chief executive, Jo Negrini, is being called into … Continue reading
Croydon school choir helps to make a Fantastic soundtrack
A school choir based in Shirley has provided their vocal skills for the soundtrack to Fantastic Beasts, the latest movie based on the work of JK Rowling. Opening in cinemas last weekend, the new box office hit Fantastic Beasts and … Continue reading
Posted in Music, Schools, Shirley, Trinity School
Tagged Fantastic Beasts, Shirley, Trinity Boys' Choir, Trinity School
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Croydon schoolboy is rewarded for his Peake performances
A pupil from a Croydon school has just had an out-of-this-world experience, meeting British astronaut Tim Peake at a reception in No 10 Downing Street. Michael Eagling, 15, was invited to the event, hosted by Prime Minister Theresa May, after … Continue reading
Posted in Athletics, Cycling, Sport, Swimming, Trinity School
Tagged Croydon, Shirley, Tim Peake, Trinity School
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Stellar season sees Trinity shortlisted for rugby award
RUGBY ROUND-UP: Trinity School has been shortlisted as the Rugby School of the Year at a set of awards which recognise outstanding contribution to the sport. The National Rugby Awards will take place at Twickenham on September 1 and the … Continue reading
Posted in John Fisher School, Rugby Union, Schools, Sport, Trinity School
Tagged John Fisher School, Trinity School
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2015 Croydon Performing Arts Festival gets underway Apr 9
The 2015 Croydon Performing Arts Festival begins this Thursday with a dance section, which takes place at the Ashcroft Theatre. The organisers say, “Over three days you will see some amazing performances, ending with a Dance Gala on Saturday, April … Continue reading
Sheer madness captured with performances at Trinity School
BELLA BARTOCK is plain fagged out after a night watching the latest production by the Mitre Players. But to borrow the words of Jack Nicholson, at least she tried, suckers… Two things linger from this Mitre Players production of One … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Mitre Players, Theatre
Tagged Croydon, Jack Nicholson, Mitre Players, One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, Oscar, Theatre, Trinity School
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Trinity face trip to the champions to stay in national cup
RUGBY ROUND-UP: For the second successive year, Whitgift have been knocked out of the national schools’ rugby cup by Hampton School, losing 11-6 in a hard-fought contest in South Croydon yesterday afternoon. Probably most galling of all, Whitgift had led … Continue reading
Posted in Croydon RFC, Old Mid-Whitgiftians/Trinity RFC, Old Walcountians, Old Whitgiftians, Purley-John Fisher, Rugby Union, Sport, Streatham-Croydon RFC, Uncategorized, Warlingham RFC
Tagged Croydon, NatWest Cup, Old Mid-Whitgiftians, Old Whitgifitians, Purley-John Fisher, rugby, rugby union, schools, South Croydon, Sport, Streatham-Croydon, Surrey, Trinity School, Warlingham, Whitgift School
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