Tag Archives: Wayne Trakas-Lawlor

Public rallies round to save South Norwood business

Posted on February 4, 2018 by insidecroydon

A family-run business that has been serving South Norwood for more than 40 years has almost had the stuffing knocked out of them in the past week, as their landlord has notified them of a rent increase of £3,600 a … Continue reading →

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Trakas-Lawlor votes down Queen’s Hotel expansion plan

Posted on October 20, 2017 by insidecroydon

Has Croydon’s planning worm turned? KEN LEE reports from the Town Hall chamber, where two developments of little merit were both rejected last night Residents in Crystal Palace are preparing themselves for a long-term battle over the future of the … Continue reading →

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Former Mayor of Croydon decides to stand down from council

Posted on October 16, 2017 by insidecroydon

Another senior member of the Labour group at the Town Hall has decided not to stand at next May’s council elections. Wayne Trakas-Lawlor, a councillor in South Norwood ward since 2010, announced his decision to colleagues yesterday. Trakas-Lawlor is the … Continue reading →

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Audsley pays price as Newman sacks him as cabinet deputy

Posted on May 4, 2017 by insidecroydon

A lapse in judgement means that Jamie Audsley will be about £10,000 out of pocket next year, as the Bensham Manor ward councillor has been sacked from Labour leader Tony Newman’s cabinet team. Or, as Tony Soprano once said, “There’s … Continue reading →

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Mayor of Croydon’s St George’s Day Gala dinner, Apr 21

Posted on April 12, 2017 by insidecroydon
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Win a £22,000 Lexus at Mayor’s charity golf day, Mar 29

Posted on February 19, 2017 by insidecroydon

You could win yourself a new car at the Mayor of Croydon’s charity golf day next month. All you have to do is hit a hole in one. Coming towards the end of Councillor Wayne Trakas-Lawlor’s year in office as … Continue reading →

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Selhurst councillor Letts confirmed as next Croydon Mayor

Posted on January 26, 2017 by insidecroydon

Toni Letts, the councillor for Selhurst ward, has been confirmed as the next Mayor of Croydon. It will be Letts’ second term as Croydon Mayor. The news was announced this morning by the mayoral incumbent, Wayne Trakas-Lawlor: “Warm congrats to … Continue reading →

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Holocaust Memorial Day candle-lighting, Town Hall, Jan 27

Posted on January 26, 2017 by insidecroydon
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Mayor of Croydon’s charity Christmas dinner, Dec 9

Posted on November 23, 2016 by insidecroydon
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Civic and religious leaders to mourn tram victims together

Posted on November 9, 2016 by insidecroydon

Croydon’s civic and religious leaders came together this afternoon to express their sympathy for the victims and the bereaved of today’s horrific Sandilands tram accident. Sunday’s annual civic service, to be held at Croydon Minster to remember the fallen in … Continue reading →

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Remembrance Sunday service at Croydon Minster, Nov 13

Posted on November 4, 2016 by insidecroydon

Croydon’s annual Civic Service of Remembrance, held in conjunction with local branches of the Royal British Legion, will take place at Croydon Minster at 11am, on Sunday November 13. The service at the Minster will be conducted by the Bishop … Continue reading →

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£1,500 licence fee drives South Norwood shops out of business

Posted on October 21, 2016 by insidecroydon

Sad times on Croydon’s high streets. M.T. WALLETTE, our shopping correspondent, reports from South Norwood where two long-standing retailers fear they might be forced out of business… by their own council Two much-loved high street shops, both in the Mayor … Continue reading →

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Purple Purley in the pink after doubling charity fund-raising

Posted on October 5, 2016 by insidecroydon

Local shops, businesses, organisations and schools managed to raise more than £5,000 for a cancer charity in less than seven days of Paint Purley Purple. Wayne Trakas-Lawlor, the Mayor of Croydon, visited the South East Cancer Help Centre yesterday to … Continue reading →

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Carnival of colour and music brightens up Thornton Heath

Posted on September 5, 2016 by insidecroydon

Photographer LEE TOWNSEND was at yesterday’s splash of September colour that was the Thornton Heath Festival and provides this photo-story

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Waddon school pupils get chance to eat as they learn

Posted on June 29, 2016 by insidecroydon

Croydon’s new Mayor tended to his roots in more ways than one when he came to open St Giles’s School’s edible garden today. Councillor Wayne Trakas-Lawlor got in some good spade work to bed down a tree planted to mark … Continue reading →

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