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Police use stop-and-search powers to counter ‘Croydon Wars’
There were no arrests across London yesterday, as the threatened youth violence prompted by social media messaging failed to materialise. Now some suggest the ‘Red v Blue’ messages are all a hoax A large police presence in Croydon town centre … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Centrale, Coloma, Coombe Wood School, Crime, Harris Academy Beulah Hill, Harris Academy South Norwood, London-wide issues, Norbury Manor, Oasis Academy, Orchard Park High, Policing, Schools, Whitgift Centre
Tagged Centrale, Coloma, Commander Neerav Patel, Coombe Wood, Croydon, Croydon Council, Croydon Wars, Harris Beulah Hill, Harris Invictus, Harris Purley, Harris South Norwood, London Borough of Croydon, Metropolitan Police, Norbury Manor, Oasis Arena, Orchard Park, Saffron Valley Collegiate, Sutton, TikTok, Whitgift Centre
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Dozen social media sites ‘disabled’ over Croydon Wars stunt
Metropolitan Police says it is increasing number of officers patrolling around schools and town centre, ‘and we will respond firmly to any reports of violence or disorder’ A senior police officer based in Croydon has issued a statement seeking to … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Centrale, Coloma, Coombe Wood School, Crime, Croydon Council, Harris Academy Beulah Hill, Harris Academy South Norwood, Norbury Manor, Oasis Academy, Orchard Park High, Schools, Whitgift Centre
Tagged Centrale, Coloma, Coombe Wood, Croydon, Croydon Council, Croydon Wars, Harris Beulah Hill, Harris Invictus, Harris Purley, Harris South Norwood, London Borough of Croydon, Metropolitan Police, Norbury Manor, Oasis Arena, Orchard Park, Saffron Valley Collegiate, Superintendent Luke Dillon, Sutton, TikTok, Whitgift Centre
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Schools and parents on alert for next week’s ‘Croydon Wars’
Police and community groups are preparing for a week of “Croydon Wars”, after children aged as young as 12 have been encouraged on social media to take weapons with them to a series of “Red v Blue” fights between schools. … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Centrale, Coloma, Coombe Wood School, Crime, Croydon Council, Harris Academy Beulah Hill, Harris Academy South Norwood, Norbury Manor, Oasis Academy, Orchard Park High, Schools, Whitgift Centre
Tagged Centrale, Coloma, Coombe Wood, Croydon, Croydon Council, Croydon Wars, Hackney, Harris Beulah Hill, Harris Invictus, Harris Purley, Harris South Norwood, London Borough of Croydon, Metropolitan Police, Norbury Manor, Oasis Arena, Orchard Park, Saffron Valley Collegiate, Sutton, TikTok, Whitgift Centre
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Britain’s biggest children’s book festival is coming to Croydon
Croydon youngsters are to be offered a free day of “bookish fun” at the Ashcroft Theatre in the summer as part of the annual London Schools Literature Festival. The Whitgift Foundation is sponsoring the day’s activities, which will be organised … Continue reading
Trinity submits planning application for £40m co-ed conversion
Less than a year after announcing the £30,000 a year fee-paying school would start offering places to girls, plans have gone in for works that will see its expansion to 1,400 pupils. By STEVEN DOWNES Plans for a £40million extension … Continue reading
Posted in Alasdair Kennedy, Business, Charity, Education, Old Palace, Planning, Schools, Trinity School, Whitgift Centre, Whitgift Foundation, Whitgift School
Tagged Alasdair Kennedy, Croydon, Old Palace of John Whitgift School, Old Palace School, Shirley, Shirley Park, Trinity School, Whitgift Centre, Whitgift Foundation, Whitgift School
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Charity formed last October buys two Old Palace buildings
The Rise School of Excellence has paid £750,000 for two buildings on the site of the former girls’ fee-paying school, as Croydon’s biggest landowners, the Whitgift Foundation, continue to dispose of their properties. By GENE BRODIE, education correspondent The piecemeal … Continue reading
Posted in "Hammersfield", Business, CPO, Education, Old Palace, Roisha Hughes, Schools, Serenity special school, Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield, Whitgift Centre, Whitgift Foundation
Tagged Archbishop John Whitgift, Archbishop of Canterbury, Croydon, Hammersfield, Knight Frank, Old Palace of John Whitgift School, Old Palace School, Old Town, Rise School of Excellence, Roisha Hughes, Serenity Special School, Westfield, Whitgift Centre, Whitgift Foundation
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National Gallery artworks exhibit comes to Croydon’s doorstep
You would probably be blissfully unaware if you relied on information from the propaganda bunker at part-time Mayor Jason Perry’s dysfunctional council, but parts of Croydon are today arrayed with a selection of some of the world’s greatest artistic masterpieces. … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Coulsdon Sixth Form College, Croydon Council, Croydon Minster, Croydon parks, Education, National Gallery Art On Your Doorstep, Park Hill Recreation Ground, Queens Gardens
Tagged Art On Your Doorstep, Coulsdon, Croydon, Croydon Council, JMW Turner, Minster Green, Monet, National Gallery, Pablo Picasso, Park Hill Park, Purley, Queens Gardens, Renoir, Stubbs, Thornton Heath, Upper Norwood, Van Eyck, Vincent van Gogh, Whitgift Centre
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Labour’s Davis looks to CPO the ‘hole in the heart of Croydon’
Mayoral candidate intends to discuss a Compulsory Purchase Order of Chinese-owned property with Prime Minister on his return from Beijing. EXCLUSIVE by STEVEN DOWNES Labour’s candidate for Croydon Mayor, Rowenna Davis, says that if elected in May she will look … Continue reading
Posted in 2026 council elections, 2026 Croydon Mayor election, Nestle Tower, Property, Rowenna Davis, St George's Walk, Waddon
Tagged 2026 council elections, 2026 Croydon mayoral election, 2026 local elections, Allders, Cllr Rowenna Davis, Conservative, Councillor Rowenna Davis, Croydon, Croydon Council, Hammersfield, Labour, London, London Borough of Croydon, Mayor, Minerva, Nestle Tower, R and F Properties, R&F Properties, Rowenna Davis, St George's Walk, Tory, Waddon, Westfield, Whitgift Centre
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Rubbish contractors don’t know how many bins there are
Four years after being caught out ripping out 1,000 street bins – all to make work for rubbish contractors Veolia a bit easier – and now Croydon Council is forced to admit it has no real idea of how many … Continue reading
Posted in Inside Croydon
Tagged Allders, Andrew Fisher, Coulsdon, Coulsdon banking hub, Council Tax, Croydon, Croydon Council, Golden handshake, Hammersfield, Katherine Kerswell, Kerswell yoghurt, Labour, Litter Free Norbury, Mayor Jason Perry, Pay-off, Surrey Street, Tony Hooker, Tory, Unibail Rodamco Westfield, URW, Veolia, Westfield, Whitgift Centre, Whitgift Foundation
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CEO quit council with £50,000 pay-off to not work for 3 months
This was awkward: Jason Perry, the politician who promised to clawback money from the massive golden handshake paid to the previous council CEO, in October found himself overseeing a pay-off to Katherine Kerswell, as she resigned after five years as … Continue reading
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Tagged 000, Allders, Andrew Fisher, £50, Council Tax, Croydon, Croydon Council, Golden handshake, Hammersfield, Katherine Kerswell, Kerswell yoghurt, Labour, Mayor Jason Perry, Pay-off, Surrey Street, Tory, Unibail Rodamco Westfield, URW, Westfield, Whitgift Centre, Whitgift Foundation
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Croydon and council at centre of new £100m housing scandal
The housing scandal at Regina Road was appalling, but by September 2025, Croydon found itself embroiled in another dreadful instance of the shortcomings of tall residential towers. Plus our writers get lost searching their way through the half-closed shopping mall, … Continue reading
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Tagged Allders, Andrew Fisher, Council Tax, Croydon, Croydon Council, Hammersfield, Jeremy Corbyn, Labour, Liberal Democrats, Mayor Jason Perry, Nigel Farage, Purley Pool, Reform, Reform Ltd, Reform UK, Sharon Carby, Tory, Unibail Rodamco Westfield, URW, Westfield, Whitgift Centre, Whitgift Foundation
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How Farage’s party picked a dead woman as election candidate
Into August, and the news stories just kept coming, including the latest moves by Westfield to make the Whitgift Centre ever more inaccessible, and the public library where council contractors chucked thousands of books on to the street. There was … Continue reading
Posted in Inside Croydon
Tagged Allders, Andrew Fisher, Council Tax, Croydon, Croydon Council, Hammersfield, Jeremy Corbyn, Labour, Liberal Democrats, Mayor Jason Perry, Nigel Farage, Purley Pool, Reform, Reform Ltd, Reform UK, Sharon Carby, Tory, Unibail Rodamco Westfield, URW, Westfield, Whitgift Centre, Whitgift Foundation
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Westfield Scrooges stop choir singing carols in Whitgift Centre
The traditional free, charity fund-raising Christmas carol concert by a long-established Croydon choir never took place in the Whitgift Centre this month. Last year, the Scrooges at Westfield turned away the Croydon Male Voice Choir from what was once an … Continue reading
Posted in "Hammersfield", Business, Charity, Croydon Male Voice Choir, Music, Sutton Council, Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield, Whitgift Centre
Tagged Beddington, Croydon, Croydon Male Voice Choir, Hammersfield, Shirley, St John's Church, St Nicholas Centre, Sutton, Sutton Council, Westfield, Whitgift Centre
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The cash-strapped council paying consultant £726 PER HOUR
The dog days of a long, hot summer are not usually a time for significant news stories. But that wasn’t to be the case in Croydon as readers flocked to this news site for our coverage in in July and … Continue reading
Posted in Inside Croydon
Tagged Adecco, Allders, Andrew Fisher, Council Tax, Croydon, Croydon Council, Dean Shoesmith, Hammersfield, Ian Dunt, Katherine Kerswell, Kevin Day, Labour, Liberal Democrats, Mayor Jason Perry, Purley Pool, Tory, Unibail Rodamco Westfield, URW, Westfield, Whitgift Centre, Whitgift Foundation
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When council boss blocked staff from reading Inside Croydon
Our review of the year’s Croydon news continues with a ecelctic mix of the infuriating and the absurd, as the unelected and unaccountable £204,000 per year public servant at the head of the council looked increasingly all at sea JUNE … Continue reading
Posted in Inside Croydon
Tagged Allders, Allders Parade, Council Tax, Croydon, Croydon Council, Fiona Fletcher-Smith, Hammersfield, Katherine Kerswell, Labour, Liberal Democrats, Mayor Jason Perry, Purley Pool, Tory, Unibail Rodamco Westfield, URW, Westfield, Whitgift Centre, Whitgift Foundation
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After 120 years, the Eagles live the dream at Wembley cup final
As we reach the month of May in our review of the biggest and best news stories of the year, there was one report, direct from the National Stadium, that had many Croydon folk walking on air for days afterwards… … Continue reading
Posted in Inside Croydon
Tagged 2025 FA Cup final, Allders, Allders Parade, Council Tax, Croydon, Croydon Council, Crystal Palace, Crystal Palace FC, East Croydon station, FA Cup, FA Cup final, Hammersfield, Katherine Kerswell, Labour, Liberal Democrats, Mayor Jason Perry, Peter Gillman, Purley Pool, Roisha Hughes, Selhurst Park, Sutton Council, Tory, Trinity School, Westfield, Whitgift Centre, Whitgift Foundation
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April fool! Plus: school goes co-ed, new owners for old pub
As we continue to sweep through the biggest and most important news stories of 2025, the latest part of our annual news review arrives at the month of the annual Council Tax hike APRIL Trinity boys’ school confirms that it … Continue reading
Posted in Inside Croydon
Tagged #BridgeToNowhere, Allders, Allders Parade, Council Tax, Croydon, Croydon Council, Crystal Palace, Crystal Palace FC, East Croydon station, FA Cup, Hammersfield, Katherine Kerswell, Labour, Liberal Democrats, Mayor Jason Perry, Purley Pool, Roisha Hughes, Selhurst Park, Sutton Council, Tory, Trinity School, Westfield, Whitgift Centre, Whitgift Foundation
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Council’s closed doors, Selhurst security, Bridge to Nowhere
Here’s more of the most significant or best-read news stories of 2025, as we delve behind the headlines with Inside Croydon reports from the past 12 months MARCH No Access Croydon: Kerswell closes off Fisher’s Folly to public The increasingly … Continue reading
Posted in Inside Croydon
Tagged #BridgeToNowhere, Access Croydon, Bernard Weatherill House, Chris Philp MP, Cllr Ria Patel, Conservative, Council Tax, Croydon, Croydon Council, Crystal Palace, East Croydon station, Fairfield Halls, Fisher's Folly, Hammersfield, Katherine Kerswell, Labour, Liberal Democrats, Mayor Jason Perry, Purley Pool, Purley Pool Towers, Selhurst Park, Sutton Council, Tory, Westfield, Whitgift Centre
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2025 in review: Purley Pool, porkie pies and a busted budget
As we approach the year’s end, we continue with our review of 2025 by taking a look at some of the Inside Croydon reports which generated most public interest FEBRUARY Croydon In Crisis: budget overspend now close to £100m The … Continue reading
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Tagged #BridgeToNowhere, Chris Philp MP, Cllr Ria Patel, Conservative, Council Tax, Croydon, Croydon Council, Crystal Palace, East Croydon station, Fairfield Halls, Hammersfield, Katherine Kerswell, Labour, Liberal Democrats, Mayor Jason Perry, Purley Pool, Purley Pool Towers, Sutton Council, Tory, Westfield, Whitgift Centre
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That was the year that was: Inside Croydon’s pick of 2025
As we approach the year’s end, here’s the first part of our review of 2025, and a look at some of the Inside Croydon reports which generated most public interest JANUARY 2025 It was the grimmest of starts to the … Continue reading
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Tagged #BridgeToNowhere, Chris Philp MP, Conservative, Council Tax, Croydon, Croydon Council, Crystal Palace, East Croydon station, Fairfield Halls, Hammerson, Katherine Kerswell, Labour, Liberal Democrats, Mayor Jason Perry, Sutton Council, Tory, Westfield, Whitgift Centre
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MP Jones putting her Croydon constituents on remote control
A Croydon MP who receives almost £200,000 per year, to pay for aides and a constituency office, has her phone staffed for just four hours each week. WALTER CRONXITE, Political Editor, on how at least one of Croydon’s well-funded MPs … Continue reading
Posted in Chris Philp MP, Croydon East, Croydon South, Croydon West, Natasha Irons, Sarah Jones MP, Steve Reed MP, Streatham and Croydon North
Tagged Chris Philp MP, Constituency office, Croydon East, Croydon South, Croydon TUC, Croydon West, David White, Erskine May, Jeremy Corbyn, Labour, Natasha Irons MP, Nose in search of a bum, Palestine Action, Palestine hunger strikers, Qesser Zuhrah, Sarah Jones MP, Steve Reed OBE, Streatham and Croydon North, Teuta Hoxha, Whitgift Centre
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