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Council fails to do its homework on Croydon GCSE results 27 Aug 2013 | 02:55 pm
So how did Croydon’s pupils do in their GCSEs this year? Our education correspondent GENE BRODIE gives Croydon Council an “F” for its efforts in failing to release full results for local schools, when...
Shabden Park Farm sheep dog trials: Sat Aug 31 26 Aug 2013 | 04:09 pm
One Man and His Dog is coming to a farm near you this Saturday, when Shabden Park Farm, just south of Coulsdon, stages a charity sheep dog trials and picnic. Starting bright and early at 8.30am on Aug...
Creative writing event, Purley Library: Fri Aug 30 26 Aug 2013 | 03:47 pm
Purley Library is holding a creative writing group for adults this Friday, August 30, from 10.30am. The guest speaker will be the poet and author, Jacqueline Ewers. The informal creative writing group...
Londoners being priced out of London by social cleansing 25 Aug 2013 | 05:06 pm
CROYDON COMMENTARY: Building thousands of high-rise high-priced “luxury apartments” to be bought by overseas investors may enhance the bottom line of private property developers, but will do nothing t...
Beware of the special offers at Purley’s hothouse steakhouse 24 Aug 2013 | 04:48 pm
It’s in an area which might delight Kirsty Allsop, but something about Purley’s Buenos Aires Steakhouse doesn’t add up, writes STEVEN DOWNES There is an obvious problem of conscience with restaurant r...
Incinerator campaigners to take battle to judicial review 23 Aug 2013 | 03:28 pm
Environment campaigners in south London want to use a judicial review to challenge the decision to allow Viridor and Sutton Council to build a waste incinerator on Metropolitan Open Land at Beddington...
Council planning chief paid £28,000 for six weeks’ work 22 Aug 2013 | 06:45 pm
Paul Spooner, Croydon’s latest executive director of planning and environment, was paid £28,000 for his first six weeks work at the council, according to the council’s own accounts. That works out at ...
Travel back in time with this Victorian duo’s magic act 22 Aug 2013 | 01:27 pm
Looking for some family-friendly entertainment? There’s a show coming to Croydon next month from the Edinburgh Fringe which offers no profanity, lewd humour or exposed ankles. Morgan and West describe...
Boris’s deputy gives green light to £1bn incinerator scheme 21 Aug 2013 | 10:11 pm
Five brief paragraphs. That is all it took in a letter today to Sutton Council to give the go-ahead for the £1 billion Viridor incinerator on Beddington Lane, approving three decades of tens of thousa...
Stanley Halls community group wins £9,000 from Heritage fund 21 Aug 2013 | 09:05 pm
The Stanley People’s Initiative, the local residents’ group which has taken community asset transfer of Stanley Halls from Croydon Council, has become one of the first groups in the country to receive...
