This is what 'Zero Tolerance' looks like in Perry's Croydon insidecroydon.com/2025/09/02/t... #Croydon #CroydonInCrisis #FlyTipping #Norbury @keepbritaintidy.bsky.social
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This is what 'Zero Tolerance' looks like in Perry's Croydon insidecroydon.com/2025/09/02/t... #Croydon #CroydonInCrisis #FlyTipping #Norbury @keepbritaintidy.bsky.social
Under Westfield, it looks like curtains for sad Whitgift Centre insidecroydon.com/2025/09/02/u... #Croydon #CroydonInCrisis #Westfield @londoncentric.media
1-in-12 tram passengers is a fare dodger, according to TfL insidecroydon.com/2025/09/02/1... #Croydon #Trams #TfL @london.gov.uk
'War starts here on our doorsteps': Greens picket weapons fair insidecroydon.com/2025/09/02/w... #Croydon #DSEI @zackpolanski.bsky.social @carolinerussell.bsky.social
Croydon celebrates Ganesh Chaturthi with two-day festival insidecroydon.com/2025/09/02/c... #Croydon #Ganesh
Music for September: The Oval Tavern's line-up this month insidecroydon.com/2025/09/02/m... #Croydon #Music #Pubs @ovalblues.bsky.social @camraofficial.bsky.social
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iC writers go on a quest: find a way through the Whitgift Centre insidecroydon.com/2025/09/01/i... #Croydon #CroydonInCrisis #WhitgiftCentre @retailweek.bsky.social @sarahjonesmp.bsky.social
Council refuses to remove England flags from Coulsdon Road insidecroydon.com/2025/09/01/c... #Croydon #Coulsdon #Flags
Thank you iC readers! 50 ask about helping Nightwatch charity insidecroydon.com/2025/09/01/t... #Croydon #Charity #Homelessness @kwajo.bsky.social
NHS rolls out flu jabs for London's pregnant mums and children insidecroydon.com/2025/09/01/n... #Croydon #London #NHS #Flu
Beddington 'Rambo knife' attacker sentenced to 16 years in jail insidecroydon.com/2025/09/01/b... #Croydon #Sutton #Beddington #KnifeCrime
Michael J Sales art exhibition at Croydon Clocktower, Sep 1-27 insidecroydon.com/2025/09/01/m... #Croydon #Art #CroydonClocktower
Reform UK, the right leaning think tank Policy Exchange, and some Labour grandees, are all pushing for us to either leave the ECHR, or disapply parts of it temporarily or permanently. This puts me, you and everyone at risk, not just those seeking sanctuary.
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Last week's top posts: 'Permanently closed': Whitgift Centre works mark end of days insidecroydon.com/2025/08/23/p... #Croydon #CroydonInCrisis #Whitgift @propertyweek.bsky.social
Last week's top posts: Old Palace sale completed - for £2.3m less than asking price insidecroydon.com/2025/08/28/o... #Croydon #CroydonInCrisis #OldPalace @neunion.bsky.social @englishheritage.bsky.social
Last week's top posts: Sky-high prices force pubs to pull plug on televised football insidecroydon.com/2025/08/28/s... #Croydon #cpfc @skysportspl.bsky.social @wsc.co.uk
Last week's top posts: Now Kerswell's deputy CEO joins the rush for council exits insidecroydon.com/2025/08/26/n... #Croydon #CroydonInCrisis @sarahcalkin.bsky.social @rosslydall.bsky.social
Shakespeares who made music part of their family business insidecroydon.com/2025/08/31/s... #Croydon #Business #CroydonMinster
Volunteers needed for Minster churchyard clean-up, Sep 6 insidecroydon.com/2025/08/31/v... #Croydon #Volunteers #CroydonMinster
Volunteers wanted for River Revive at Norbury Brook, Sep 20 insidecroydon.com/2025/08/31/v... #Croydon #Ecology #Wildlife #Norbury
Striders of Croydon Switchback 5, Lloyd Park, Sun Oct 5 insidecroydon.com/2025/08/31/s... #Croydon #LloydPark #Running @runnersworld.bsky.social
Top posts in August: 'Permanently closed': Whitgift Centre works mark end of days insidecroydon.com/2025/08/23/p... #Croydon #CroydonInCrisis #WhitgiftCentre #Westfield @thelondoneconomic.bsky.social @londoncentric.media
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Top posts in August: Old Palace sale completed - for £2.3m less than asking price insidecroydon.com/2025/08/28/o... #Croydon #OldPalace #Whitgift @urbanhistorya.bsky.social
Top posts in August: Council facing High Court challenge over 'No Access Croydon' insidecroydon.com/2025/08/05/c... #Croydon #CroydonInCrisis #Housing @kwajo.bsky.social
Top posts in August: Brighton bans Boxpark founder for wearing Palestine shirt insidecroydon.com/2025/08/27/b... #Boxpark #Boozepark #Gaza #cpfc @wsc.co.uk
Top posts in August: Booked! Mayor Perry deceives over destruction of library stock insidecroydon.com/2025/08/10/b... #Croydon #CroydonInCrisis #BroadGreen #LibraryBooks
Stepping out for a slow, peaceful way to feel benefits of nature insidecroydon.com/2025/08/30/s... #Croydon #Walks #VAWG
Walcountians to celebrate Clockhouse's diamond anniversary insidecroydon.com/2025/08/30/w... #Croydon #Wallington #Rugby #Lions @therugbyhistory.bsky.social @therugbypaper.bsky.social
Pampisford Road Allotment Society Open Day, Sun Aug 31 insidecroydon.com/2025/08/30/p... #Croydon #Allotments
Friends of Streatham Common Bat Walk, Rookery Café, Sep 6 insidecroydon.com/2025/08/30/f... #Streatham #Bats #Nature
Friends of Gipsy Hill Garden Party, Sainsbury Road, Sep 13 insidecroydon.com/2025/08/30/f... #GipsyHill #CrystalPalace @abcommuters.bsky.social
HR director's suspension at Sutton raises serious questions insidecroydon.com/2025/08/29/h... #Croydon #CroydonInCrisis #Sutton #Merton
This is where the empty headed Flag shagging leads. Race hate.
How the Prime Minister's growing moral cowardice in taking on the politics of Nigel Farage is setting his own Government up for a historic defeat www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/whos-afrai...
Jewish councillor quits Labour over bullying and anti-Semitism insidecroydon.com/2025/08/29/j... #Lambeth #Labour #Momentum @britainelects.com
Labour makes last-gasp appeal for council election candidates insidecroydon.com/2025/08/29/l... #Croydon #Labour @left-foot-forward.bsky.social @ottoenglish.bsky.social
David Lean Cinema's September screenings, plus its AGM insidecroydon.com/2025/08/29/d... #Croydon #Cinema @davidleancinema.bsky.social
This week's top posts: 'Permanently closed': Whitgift Centre works mark end of days insidecroydon.com/2025/08/23/p... #Croydon #CroydonInCrisis #Whitgift @itvnews.bsky.social
This week's top posts: Farage party picked a dead woman to run for Croydon Mayor insidecroydon.com/2025/08/27/f... #Croydon #Reform @britainelects.com
This week's top posts: Brighton bans Boxpark founder for wearing Palestine shirt insidecroydon.com/2025/08/27/b... #Boozepark #Gaza @nocontextfooty.bsky.social
This week's top posts: Buildings ancient and modern open their doors for Open House insidecroydon.com/2025/08/24/b... #Croydon #London #OpenHouse @london.gov.uk @thevicsoc.bsky.social @royalhistsoc.org
This week's top posts: Old Palace sale completed - for £2.3m less than asking price insidecroydon.com/2025/08/28/o... #Croydon #OldPalace #Whitgift
This week's top posts: Now Kerswell's deputy CEO joins the rush for council exits insidecroydon.com/2025/08/26/n... #Croydon #CroydonInCrisis @sarahcalkin.bsky.social
Old Palace sale completed - for £2.3m less than asking price insidecroydon.com/2025/08/28/o... #Croydon #CroydonInCrisis #OldPalace #Whitgift @neunion.bsky.social
Polluting Viridor exposed over nearly 1,000 licence breaches insidecroydon.com/2025/08/27/p... #Sutton #Croydon #Merton #Kingston @environmentagency.blog.gov.uk.web.brid.gy
This is just next level insanity. In January this year, Reform picked Sharon Carby, aged 70, from Bradford, to run as their Croydon Mayoral candidate. There was just one rather significant problem. She had sadly died in July 2024. insidecroydon.com/2025/08/27/f...
As long as guns are easily available to crazy people, mass killings directed at so-called soft targets will continue. This is a fact. Countries where it's more difficult for crazy people to obtain guns have less shootings. This is also a fact. Do with these facts as you will.
Sky-high prices force pubs to pull plug on televised football insidecroydon.com/2025/08/28/s... #Croydon #Football #SkySports @theeaglesbeak.bsky.social @camraofficial.bsky.social @wsc.co.uk
Open House London: The White House, Norwood Grove, Sep 13 insidecroydon.com/2025/08/28/o... #Croydon #Heritage #OpenHouseLondon
Farage party picked a dead woman to run for Croydon Mayor insidecroydon.com/2025/08/27/f... #Croydon #2026LocalElections @britainelects.com @privateeyenews.bsky.social @owenjones.bsky.social
Brighton bans Boxpark founder for wearing Palestine shirt insidecroydon.com/2025/08/27/b... #Croydon #Boxpark #Brighton @fiveyearplan.bsky.social @wsc.co.uk @boxpark.bsky.social
KInd words but no action: how Croydon MP responds on Gaza insidecroydon.com/2025/08/27/k... #Croydon #Gaza @aljazeera.com @owenjones.bsky.social @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social
Exclusive: Corbyn talks on Your Party, Labour and David Evans insidecroydon.com/2025/08/21/e... #Croydon #Corbyn #YourParty @fisherandrew79.bsky.social @labourlist.bsky.social
Now Kerswell's deputy CEO joins the rush for council exits insidecroydon.com/2025/08/26/n... #Croydon #CroydonInCrisis #Commissioners @local.gov.uk @sarahcalkin.bsky.social
Croydon College names Shawcross as new chair of governors insidecroydon.com/2025/08/26/c... #Croydon #Education @croydoncollege.bsky.social
Chilli challenge raises the heat at Pampisford Road Allotments insidecroydon.com/2025/08/26/c... #Croydon #Chillies #Allotments
#Israel has today murdered famous Palestinian veteran photojournalist Mariam Abu Daqqa in #Israeli occupied #Palestine 's #Gaza. تغطية صحفية: " ارتقاء الصحفية مريم ابو دقة بمجزرة الاحتلال بقصف مبنى بمجمع ناصر الطبي بخانيونس". www.instagram.com/p/DNxWXL-0BmH/ #BoycottIsrael #Journalism #News #Press
'Busted': Mayor's video shows rubbish contractors are failing insidecroydon.com/2025/08/25/b... #Croydon #CroydonInCrisis #PerrysPiles @veoliauk.bsky.social @itvnews.bsky.social @keepbritaintidy.bsky.social
Reform UK, which has a grand total of four MPs, was just given an uninterrupted platform for an hour and a half on the BBC and Sky News channels, in order to talk about its plans for mass deportations When was the last time the Greens (with four MPs) or the Lib Dems (with 72) were given the same?
Garden centre has free advice and kids' sessions in September insidecroydon.com/2025/08/25/g... #Croydon #Sutton #Gardening
RSPCA receiving one report of animal cruelty every 15 minutes insidecroydon.com/2025/08/25/r... #Croydon #London @chrisgpackham.bsky.social @rspcasouthlondon.bsky.social
Exclusive: my interview with Jeremy Corbyn The former Labour leader speaks frankly on forming a new party, the pain of his 50+ year Labour membership ending, and allotments! www.patreon.com/posts/exclus...
Our Corbyn podcast exclusive is followed up by the nationals insidecroydon.com/2025/08/23/o... #Croydon #Corbyn #Podcast @hackblackburn.bsky.social @fisherandrew79.bsky.social
Florida bans "The Diary of Anne Frank" in school libraries. Whoever made this decision should have to eat every page of that amazing book, page by page.
No more trophy hunting for big beautiful creatures says British Columbia
Epstein survivor Sarah Ransome on Ghislaine Maxwell: “I have spent the last 17 years in my own prison for what she, Jeffrey, and all the co-conspirators did to me. I was raped three times a day. Ghislaine must die in prison.”
Buildings ancient and modern open their doors for Open House insidecroydon.com/2025/08/24/b... #Croydon #History #OpenHouse @christianwolmar.bsky.social
Captain Chippies Summer Barbeque, Royal Standard, Aug 24 insidecroydon.com/2025/08/24/c... #Croydon #BankHoliday #Barbecue @camraofficial.bsky.social
Public meeting: Your Party in Lambeth, Brixton, Sep 11 insidecroydon.com/2025/08/24/p... #Lambeth #Brixton #YourParty
Michael J Sales art exhibition at Croydon Clocktower, Sep 1-27 insidecroydon.com/2025/08/24/m... #Croydon #Clocktower #Art #Free
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This week's top posts: Porter brewed at Croydon brewery wins Beer of the Year award insidecroydon.com/2025/08/19/p... #Croydon @camraofficial.bsky.social
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This week's top posts: Exclusive: Corbyn talks on Your Party, Labour and David Evans insidecroydon.com/2025/08/21/e... #Corbyn #Sultana #YourParty
'Permanently closed': Whitgift Centre works mark end of days insidecroydon.com/2025/08/23/p... #Croydon #CroydonInCrisis #Whitgift @retailweek.bsky.social
More dangerous dog attacks in Croydon than other boroughs insidecroydon.com/2025/08/23/m... #Croydon #XLBullies #DangerousDogs @rspcasouthlondon.bsky.social
Pampisford Road Allotment Society Open Day, Sun Aug 31 insidecroydon.com/2025/08/23/p... #Croydon #Allotments #Chilli
Raggio di Sole, handmade pizzas made to order, South Croydon insidecroydon.com/2025/08/23/r... #Croydon #Pizza
VOTING IS NOW OPEN!! Croydon's David Lean among nominees for Cinema of the Year insidecroydon.com/2025/08/20/c... #Croydon @davidleancinema.bsky.social @bafta.org
First with the news: how your subscriptions help deliver reports that matter patreon.com/posts/first-... #Croydon #Journalism
Go West! Cash-strapped council's finance chief is set to quit insidecroydon.com/2025/08/22/g... #Croydon #CroydonInCrisis @theguardian.com @gmb.org.uk
Labour councillor Clark is forced to seek re-election in Fairfield insidecroydon.com/2025/08/22/l... #Croydon #Labour #Elections2026 @labourlist.bsky.social @britainelects.com
Secondaries celebrate as 'covid bubble' pupils pass GCSEs insidecroydon.com/2025/08/22/s... #Croydon #GCSE #Riddlesdown #Meridian #Trinity
Now Perry tries dog-whistle politics over asylum-seeker hotels insidecroydon.com/2025/08/22/n... #Croydon #Epping #Refugees
Palace replace security firm at centre of sniffer dog concerns insidecroydon.com/2025/08/21/p... #Croydon #CPFC @theeaglesbeak.bsky.social @holmesdaleusa.bsky.social
Inflation spike sets Transport for London fares to rise by 5.8% insidecroydon.com/2025/08/21/i... #Croydon #London @ldntravelwatch.bsky.social @abcommuters.bsky.social
Hope wins eternal: Carshalton pub again named London's best insidecroydon.com/2025/08/21/h... #Sutton #Carshalton #CAMRA @camraofficial.bsky.social
Your Party meeting shows a movement in need of direction insidecroydon.com/2025/08/20/y... #Croydon #YourParty @fisherandrew79.bsky.social @left-foot-forward.bsky.social
Croydon's David Lean among nominees for Cinema of the Year insidecroydon.com/2025/08/20/c... #Croydon #Cinema #BIFA @davidleancinema.bsky.social
Post Office asks for public responses to its High Street closure insidecroydon.com/2025/08/20/p... #Croydon #HighStreet #PostOffice
Coulsdon's much-bashed bridge to be given added 'protection' insidecroydon.com/2025/08/20/c... #Croydon #Coulsdon #A23 @ldntravelwatch.bsky.social @abcommuters.bsky.social
Councillor has been breaking law on disclosures since 2022 insidecroydon.com/2025/08/19/c... #Croydon #Labour #Selections @left-foot-forward.bsky.social