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Council cock-up stops comments on library consultation
Local library campaigners are demanding that Croydon Council explains yet another cock-up with its website, one which has undermined the already shoddily organised consultation on the future of Upper...
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Time to stop making allowances for “basket case” council
The rejection of Ken Livingstone at the polls last month was in some ways a move away from the nostalgia for 1980s London politics. It may be time to part company with other 20th century perspectives...
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Norwood councillor calls on Pollard to hold talks on library
A South Norwood councillor has described Croydon’s decision to abandon its legal agreement with Lambeth over the Upper Norwood Joint Library as “consistently wrong”, accusing Tim Pollard, the...
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Public rejects any moves to undermine Upper Norwood library
89% That is the massive majority surveyed who object to any suggestion that Croydon Council could abandon the 112-year-old joint agreement for funding and management of the Upper Norwood Joint Library....
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Lambeth leader Reed puts himself forward for Croydon North
Labour’s “long list” of applicants to stand as a candidate in the Croydon North by-election includes the leader of Lambeth Council, Steve Reed. Reed, a Brixton Hill councillor who lives in Streatham,...
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Reed bends with the wind as he seeks selection in Croydon
Steve Reed divides opinions. He thinks he’s great. Others who have had to deal with the leader of Lambeth Council tend to disagree. “He’s more Blairite than Tony Blair,” was one of the more polite...
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Galloway to the fore for Jasper’s Respec’Savers launch
It was more showbiz than election hustings as Lee Jasper and George Galloway took to the stage at Crystals night club last night for the official Respect party launch ahead of the Croydon North...
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Election questions: Steve Reed, Labour
The Croydon North by-election is on November 29, and Inside Croydon has put to candidates a set of questions. We will be putting the responses on the record, published without the artifice,...
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“Never knowingly understood”? Realities of a co-op council
CROYDON COMMENTARY: Last Wednesday, while Croydon Council was handing over its libraries to Laings, up the A23 at Brixton Town Hall, Lambeth Council was making an equally significant decision. SEAN...
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Reed’s regeneration record leaves Vauxhall cross
Steve Reed, Labour’s candidate for Thursday’s Croydon North by-election, wants to be judged on his record in Lambeth. SEAN CREIGHTON talks to community groups about the council leader’s job creation...
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Steve Reed MP: Residents’ pockets picked by wasteful council
In his exclusive Inside Croydon column, the local Labour MP condemns the Conservative-run borough council for raising Council Tax after mismanaging the borough The country is facing a triple-dip...
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Norwood Lake is having a fun day: June 8
The Lakes Playground Action Group, which wants to regenerate the South Norwood lake playground, is holding an event for all the family on Saturday, June 8, with lots of activities for children...
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Oi! Could the Town Hall do the Lambeth Walk under Labour?
Croydon’s Labour party looks like adopting a new approach to offer to the electorate ahead of the 2014 local elections. Labour wants to offer “a council run for the town, not the Town Hall”, according...
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Help to put Park Hill Juniors centre stage at Youth Games
The children at Park Hill Junior School need your help. Park Hill’s dancers, with a polished Bollywood-style routine, have been short-listed from schools across London to take part in the opening...
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Upper Norwood Library seeks clear-up volunteers: June 22
Upper Norwood Joint Library, cut adrift by Croydon’s Tory-run council as it blithely broke a century-old agreement that had seen it share the costs of running the public amenity with Lambeth, is...
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Invidious comparison on a rubbish route down Portland Road
Our loyal reader has been in contact again. More old rubbish. “Twice last week, I was driving through Croydon to central London, using the main roads through to Victoria at 6am. “Without exception, all...
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Upper Norwood Library seeks volunteers for new trust
Trustees are wanted for a new social enterprise in Upper Norwood due to take over the running of the Upper Norwood Library. The Upper Norwood Library Trust (UNLT) has been formed by local residents...
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Death on the roads and achieving a new cycle for transport
JASON COBB is a long-time blogger on Lambeth, with a broader interest in all things sarf London, a lido swimmer, a Surrey cricket fan who enjoys watching non-league football, and who travels to work by...
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Let’s find some remedies for growing issue on our streets
CROYDON COMMENTARY: It’s getting cold outside, and it seems likely that there will be more rough sleepers in Croydon this winter than ever before. MICKEY FINN offers some suggestions to improve,...
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MP Reed ordered investigation of councillor emails at Lambeth
Steve Reed OBE, the MP for Croydon North, had a fellow Labour councillor’s emails spied upon when he was the leader of Lambeth Council last year, according to an official answer provided at Brixton...
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