Inside Croydon

03/01/2025

Jason Perry, who promised to "fix the finances" of cash-strapped Croydon Council when he was seeking votes to become the borough's first elected Mayor in 2022, is hardly making a terrific success of managing the finances of his own family business. Part-time Perry collects £82,000 per year as Croydon Mayor. Yet since May 2022, he has continued in the role of managing director of Carlton Building Plastics Ltd, while also holding directorships in at least two other companies, according to Companies House records....

Jason Perry, who promised to “fix the finances” of cash-strapped Croydon Council when he was seeking votes to become the borough’s first elected Mayor in 2022, is hardly making a …

03/01/2025

Croydon tomorrow stages what promises to be one of the highest quality sports events in south London in all 2025, as the Surrey County Cross-country Championships are staged over Lloyd Park's rolling hills and boggy valleys. More than 900 runners have entered, across 10 races of between two and seven-and-a-half miles, starting with the under-13s at 10.30am, and culminating in the senior women's race at 12.30pm and the men's race at 1.30pm....

Croydon tomorrow stages what promises to be one of the highest quality sports events in south London in all 2025, as the Surrey County Cross-country Championships are staged over Lloyd Park’s…

03/01/2025

A pioneering construction training course developed in Croydon has been adapted for use with HS2 contractors at Old Oak Common. The Construkt course, run by Croydon-based social enterprise Serious About Youth, has been given an HS2 variation in conjunction with Expanded/Laing O'Rourke and the BBVS Joint Venture - Balfour Beatty, Vinci and Systra - which is working on £1.7billion project in west London, one of the largest engineering projects currently being undertaken in Britain....

A pioneering construction training course developed in Croydon has been adapted for use with HS2 contractors at Old Oak Common. The Construkt course, run by Croydon-based social enterprise Serious …

02/01/2025

Inside Croydon was first to report the collapse in player numbers in local men's grassroots rugby. The Daily Torygraph played catch-up with their broader look at the alarming decline in coarse rugby across England. Here, in JOHNNY DOBBYN's 2024-2025 half-term report, he finds local clubs still struggling to fulfil their fixtures Walkover. It's the dread word that is cropping up increasingly often on the pages of the RFU's club results website on a Saturday evening....

Inside Croydon was first to report the collapse in player numbers in local men’s grassroots rugby. The Daily Torygraph played catch-up with their broader look at the alarming decline in coars…

02/01/2025

With freezing temperatures forecast through to the weekend, Sir Sadiq Khan, the Mayor of London, and councils across the capital, including Croydon, have activated the pan-London SWEP - the Severe Weather Emergency Protocol - to protect homeless people. SWEP has been active for three nights so far this winter, with Croydon's response in November criticised by sources within the council and outreach groups for being ill-prepared and too slow…...

With freezing temperatures forecast through to the weekend, Sir Sadiq Khan, the Mayor of London, and councils across the capital, including Croydon, have activated the pan-London SWEP – the S…

02/01/2025

What was it that David Bowie said about Croydon? Festive fun-seekers turning up at the council-owned Fairfield Halls earklier this week having paid as much as £37 for their ticket to see a seasonal pantomime probably felt a bit short-changed when they saw a notice outside declaring that there would be only FIVE dwarfs on stage for the performance. Anywhere else but in Croydon, this might have been dismissed as a tall story....

What was it that David Bowie said about Croydon? Festive fun-seekers turning up at the council-owned Fairfield Halls earklier this week having paid as much as £37 for their ticket to see a seasonal…

02/01/2025

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02/01/2025

What do you want for Croydon, and Sutton, in 2025? We approached a wide range of figures, including loyal readers, religious leaders, educators and business people for their thoughts – and ho…

01/01/2025

What do you want for Croydon, and Sutton, in 2025? We approached a wide range of figures, including loyal readers, religious leaders, educators and business people for their thoughts - and hopes - for the New Year Ken Towl Addiscombe resident and iC's culture correspondent Fairfield Halls continues to be a disappointment. Under the unimaginative management of BHLive, what was an iconic south London music venue has consolidated its status as glorified end-of-the-pier showhouse that even an injection of £70million of our money couldn't help....

What do you want for Croydon, and Sutton, in 2025? We approached a wide range of figures, including loyal readers, religious leaders, educators and business people for their thoughts – and ho…

01/01/2025

Croydon Minster is holding a special collection for charity Crisis Skylight Croydon at its Sunday morning service on January 5. Crisis Skylight Croydon supports people who are experiencing homelessness or are at risk of homelessness. In this collection, the Minster is seeking donations of toiletries, including toothbrushes; toothpaste; roll-on deodorants; moisturiser; hand cream; men’s socks and boxers (new, not second hand please)....

Croydon Minster is holding a special collection for charity Crisis Skylight Croydon at its Sunday morning service on January 5. Crisis Skylight Croydon supports people who are experiencing homeless…

01/01/2025

HAPPY NEW YEAR: Katherine Kerswell gets headhunted to run crisis-hit Premier League football club… Mayor Perry creates more money-spinning LTNs for the cash-strapped council… And yet mo…

31/12/2024

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31/12/2024

HAPPY NEW YEAR: Katherine Kerswell gets headhunted to run crisis-hit Premier League football club... Mayor Perry creates more money-spinning LTNs for the cash-strapped council... And yet more new plans for the Whitgift Centre. We've polished up Inside Croydon's crystal ball to come up with a few predictions of everything that will definitely maybe happen in 2025.......

HAPPY NEW YEAR: Katherine Kerswell gets headhunted to run crisis-hit Premier League football club… Mayor Perry creates more money-spinning LTNs for the cash-strapped council… And yet mo…

31/12/2024

31/12/2024

Former Crystal Palace captain receives a knighthood after eight years of reviving the fortunes of the England football team, while snide Tory MP Chris Philp earns himself a gong for hypocrisy Gareth Southgate, who arrived at Selhurst Park as a shy and toothy teenager and transformed himself into an international centre-back, has been knighted in the New Year's Honours list for his service in transforming the fortunes of the England men's football team....

Former Crystal Palace captain receives a knighthood after eight years of reviving the fortunes of the England football team, while snide Tory MP Chris Philp earns himself a gong for hypocrisy Garet…

31/12/2024

New Year, new "at risk" status for the Leslie Arms, the Grade II-listed Victorian pub building on Lower Addiscombe Road, but with no prospect of a satisfactory resolution in sight. As we enter 2025, it will be more than two decades since the pub closed, as its owner, multi-millionaire property developer Anwar Ansari - he of the out-of-control Turkish guard dogs in Lloyd Park - attracts another controversy....

New Year, new “at risk” status for the Leslie Arms, the Grade II-listed Victorian pub building on Lower Addiscombe Road, but with no prospect of a satisfactory resolution in sight. As w…

30/12/2024

‘Townie’ MP Steve Reed, having angered Jeremy Clarkson and the farming lobby, now seems set for a row with Feargal Sharkey over the fate of England’s under-threat chalk streams Go…

30/12/2024

Throughout January 2025, the Martin Searle Solicitors employment law team are campaigning to prevent s*xual harassment in the workplace, with special seminars and telephone hotlines available to employees, and employers. Legislation came into force in October as part of the Worker Protection Act 2023. This means that all employers will have to take reasonable steps to prevent s*xual harassment of workers in the course of their employment....

Throughout January 2025, the Martin Searle Solicitors employment law team are campaigning to prevent s*xual harassment in the workplace, with special seminars and telephone hotlines available to em…