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Channel 5 looking to pull fast one on Croydon’s petty thieves
How others see us… Earlier this week, there was a visit to Inside Croydon Towers by a television producer who had dared venture forth from his trendy offices in one of those fashionable “quarters” of...
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Steaming from the Junction with more hurry than Andy Murray
Summer fairs, festivals and community events provide for busy weekends for Croydon North‘s MP, as STEVE REED writes One of the great pleasures of representing a place as gloriously diverse as Croydon...
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Radio station’s first birthday arrives with some growing pains
Happy birthday, Croydon Radio. The borough’s digital radio station is back on air with live programmes just in time to celebrate its first anniversary. Tim Longhurst and Tracey Rabbetts are the...
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Spendthrift council forks out £176,000 on sound system
Next week, thousands of Croydon children will make their ways to their schools at the start of the new term without the reassuring assistance of a “school crossing patrol officer” – a lollipop lady or...
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School’s new building may be dazzling, but not in a good way
Don’t know much about art, but know what you like? How about architecture? Inside Croydon received a plea recently to provide an “article more balanced than the original” after the new golden facade of...
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Baronetcy true blue blood comes to Labour’s aid in Sutton
Croydon, twinned with Arnhem in the Netherlands, has strong attachments with the Parachute Regiment. This may explain why political candidates of all parties are so readily parachuted into the area so...
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New allegations about council’s role in bus firm’s collapse
Glenn Ebrey, are you seated in your “Croydon” Sadvertiser office in Redhill? Well done. Well done for standing up to the bully boys of business administrators FRP for refusing – so far any way – their...
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Croham NF candidate dropped from election broadcast
Croydon Radio was forced into an embarrassing U-turn yesterday, as it withdrew its invitation to Tony Martin, Croydon’s representative of the fascist far-right, to appear on its endurance test of a...
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Radio station accused of deceit over inclusion of NF guest
Figures from a range of political parties are accusing Croydon Radio of deceiving them over the inclusion of local fascist Tony Martin in an “election special” aired last night. Andrew Pelling, the...
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Lebanon Road pair launch site to give East Croydon a voice
A website to voice the views and concerns of people living around East Croydon Station has been launched. The people behind the East Croydon Community site are Rod Davies and Sasha Konechni, residents...
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Labour poised to take control of council as Tories blame UKIP
We will be reporting live through the night on the local election results in Croydon, and we welcome your comments by email and Twitter. Keep checking back every 30min or so for updates and additions –...
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Councillor returns to Twitter as MP seeks own Inside Croydon
QUESTION: What does Steve “Three Jobs” O’Connell, the London Assembly Member for Croydon and Sutton, and the CIA have in common? ANSWER: They both launched themselves on to Twitter last week. Whether...
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Does Croydon’s new council have much to rave about?
One month on, WALTER CRONXITE, our local elections pollster who was first to call correctly the result of the Croydon Town Hall vote, takes a look behind the scenes in Fisher’s Folly to see what...
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Striking free paper’s staff reach breaking point over cuts
Nick Davies has had a fair amount of airtime in the last 24 hours. The investigative journalist was the first to break the phone hacking scandal which ultimately led to the Old Bailey trial involving...
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Lights! Action! Candid cameras switched on at the Town Hall
STEVEN DOWNES found himself watching the first live webcast meeting of the new Croydon Council. He watched it so you didn’t have to… I nearly missed it, because I was listening to the first in the new...
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#WadGate takes to the airwaves with the Metroknobbers
The #WadGate bandwagon rolls on, with the Daily Boris audaciously claiming “to reveal today” the story which Inside Croydon published last Saturday, five whole days ago – and all based on a Tory party...
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Dekker features in Norwood and Thornton Heath film festival
JANET SMITH, from the Save the David Lean Cinema Campaign, is looking forward to next week’s South Norwood and Thornton Heath Free Film Festival The inaugural South Norwood and Thornton Heath Free Film...
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Haenow needs to avoid serving up X Factor turkeys
Unlike certain, Surrey-based media outlets, Inside Croydon has so far avoided jumping on the X Factor bandwagon, which has seen a Dorking-based newspaper devote its “news” coverage to a reality...
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Drink coffee. Appear on TV. Raise cash for charity, Jan 27
Inside Croydon Events: for dates and links to what’s happening in and around Croydon, updated daily, click here Inside Croydon: Named among best regional media campaigns, 2014. Croydon’s only...
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Sadvertiser’s senior journalist to leave paper after 46 years
The Redhill-based Croydon Sadvertiser‘s longest serving journalist, Ian Austen, is to leave the paper. Austen is retiring, Inside Croydon understands, at the end of May after nearly 46 years with the...
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