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KEN TOWL delved into the little-known world of local literary societies, the ‘Lits’, where talk is cheap and at least the fruitcakes promise ‘no nuts’ I have discovered a hidden world, a world that exists in the shadows, a world …Continue reading→

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‘Vertical drinking’ to be banned in park’s re-opened venue, which is located in a newly extended no-alcohol zone, as council grants licence to its new tenants. By our Town Hall reporter, SANDRA STEAD  Croydon Council has managed to grant a …Continue reading→

Thirty years ago this month, a group of residents got together with the support of a conservation charity to form the first of Croydon’s “friends groups” – the Friends of Littleheath Woods. TCV = The Conservation Volunteers – is a …Continue reading→

CROYDON IN CRISIS: The rubbish contractor handed a £40m eight-year contract by Mayor Jason Perry, just two years after he sacked them for underperforming, is now taking longer to clear fly-tips than under their old deal. NORA BERRY reports  Figures …Continue reading→

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#BINMAGEDDON: After five years of community campaigning, and following repeated broken promises from Fisher’s Folly, now the council says it has no idea where around 1,000 street bins have gone. By our Town Hall correspondent, SANDRA STEAD “Totally inaccurate nonsense”. …Continue reading→

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Local campaigners in Addiscombe are hoping that enough people lodge protests before today’s deadline to object to developers’ appeal over the rejection of their plans to demolish a long-closed pub on Cherry Orchard Road and build 24 flats on the …Continue reading→

Can you help in our appeal, with the Deputy Lieutenant of Croydon, in providing details of personnel from Croydon who have been killed on active duty in the years since the end of World War II? On Remembrance Sunday, our …Continue reading→

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Connie Duxbury, the founding chief exec of Croydon Community Energy and occasionally a guest on our Croydon Insider podcast, was this week named Customer Champion at the Young Energy Professionals Forum Awards, staged at London’s Bankside Hilton Hotel. At a …Continue reading→

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Croydon residents have an opportunity to take part in an historic and important event later this month – one of the first public meetings of the Croydon Safer Neighbourhood Board to be held for six years. There’s supposed to be …Continue reading→

A classic whodunnit with a smattering of laughs comes to Selsdon Hall next week, when CODA, the Croydon Operatic and Dramatic Association, revives one of Queen of Crime Agatha Christie’s thrillers, Spider’s Web. Desperate to dispose of the body before …Continue reading→

A Croydon care home raised almost £500 from a coffee morning staged there by volunteers. The coffee morning at MHA Hall Grange, in Shirley, included a variety of stalls and fundraising activities, such as a raffle and tombola. The cake …Continue reading→

Just eight months after Coulsdon’s banking hub was opened and welcomed by the town’s previously de-banked residents, two of the major banks which have been part of the collaborative enterprise have decided to pull out of the scheme. Customers of …Continue reading→

A group of residents living around Gatwick and under the fly-path of its commercial jets have begun a High Court legal challenge against the government over its decision to grant approval for the opening of a second runway at the …Continue reading→

The Croydon BME Forum is appealing for volunteers to assist with its efforts as it co-ordinates the local response to the humanitarian crisis in Jamaica following Hurricane Meilssa. It has been confirmed that 28 people died in Jamaica following one …Continue reading→