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Father, husband, journalist and author. Winner of Royal Television Society award. Founder InsideCroydon.com. Former Editor of Athletics Weekly. Secretary SJA for 12 years. Want some writing or editing done, or have a story tip? [email protected]
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Council failed to tell affected schools about their lollipop cuts insidecroydon.com/2025/06/07/c... #Croydon #CroydonInCrisis #LollipopPatrols

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Waddon vicar appointed to take up new parish in Lewisham insidecroydon.com/2025/06/07/w... #Croydon #Lewisham @greenwichwire.bsky.social

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Addiscombe Community Selling Trail, Sat June 21, noon to 4pm insidecroydon.com/2025/06/07/a... #Croydon #Community #Addiscombe

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Patronal Festival celebration picnic, Croydon Minster, June 22 insidecroydon.com/2025/06/07/p... #Croydon #Picnic #CroydonMinster

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I went to a Phill Collins gig once, and this chap is the lucky one

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This week's top post: 'It has to be': Westfield scheme needs millions of public money insidecroydon.com/2025/06/03/i... #Croydon #CroydonInCrisis #Westfield #Whitgift #Podcast @insidehousing.bsky.social @kwajo.bsky.social

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This week's top posts: Delve into the history of Crystal Palace Park in a day of talks insidecroydon.com/2025/06/01/d... #Bromley #Croydon #Southwark @cpdinosaurs.bsky.social

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This week's top posts: £1,000 per day 'Interim Adam' lands Croydon planning job insidecroydon.com/2025/06/02/1... #Croydon #CroydonInCrisis @londoncouncils.bsky.social @timminogue.bsky.social

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This week's top posts: Owner Ansari seeks to avoid Leslie Arms planning conditions insidecroydon.com/2025/06/05/o... #Croydon #CroydonInCrisis @englishheritage.bsky.social @camraofficial.bsky.social

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This week's top posts: Frith Road murder victim is named while second man arrested insidecroydon.com/2025/06/02/f... #Croydon #Murder

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This week's top posts: Where Mayor Perry has failed, squatters have opened park café insidecroydon.com/2025/06/02/w... #Croydon #CroydonInCrisis #WandlePark #ReclaimCroydon

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🔴‘Keir Starmer’s Timid Refusal to Nationalise Failing Water Companies is a Symptom of a Government Cast Adrift’ Starmer’s administration is proving itself to be “devoid of moral compass or political courage”, argues Labour MP @labourlewis.bsky.social bylinetimes.com/2025/06/06/t...

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Man charged with Frith Road murder to appear in court insidecroydon.com/2025/06/06/m... #Croydon #Crime #Murder

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Interim Adam gets council job as HMRC winds up his company insidecroydon.com/2025/06/06/i... #Croydon #CroydonInCrisis #HMRC @rtpiplanners.bsky.social

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Croydon gang livestreamed arson attack on Ukraine business insidecroydon.com/2025/06/06/c... #Croydon #Russia #Wagner #WagnerGroup #Ukraine #Arson

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Junction Road annual street party, South Croydon, June 7 insidecroydon.com/2025/06/06/j... #Croydon #SouthCroydon

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'It has to be': Westfield scheme needs millions of public money insidecroydon.com/2025/06/03/i... #Croydon #Podcast #Westfield #Whitgift @insidehousing.bsky.social @fisherandrew79.bsky.social @christianwolmar.bsky.social

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Support your independent, locally-based news website. Click here to sign-up as a donor: patreon.com/insidecroydon #Croydon #News #Journalism

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Learner driver crashes double-decker into Norwood rail bridge insidecroydon.com/2025/06/05/l... #Croydon #NorwoodJunction #PortlandRoad @southernrailuk.bsky.social

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New Addington shooting: two charged with attempted murder insidecroydon.com/2025/06/05/n... #Croydon #CroydonInCrisis #AttemptedMurder #Shotgun @metropolitanpolice.bsky.social

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Sutton forced to chase £10m in rejected Council Tax payments insidecroydon.com/2025/06/05/s... #Sutton #CouncilTax @londoncentric.media @londoncouncils.bsky.social @rosslydall.bsky.social

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Owner Ansari seeks to avoid Leslie Arms planning conditions insidecroydon.com/2025/06/05/o... #Croydon @camraofficial.bsky.social @englishheritage.bsky.social @thevicsoc.bsky.social

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The sorry 25-year chronology of a once great Addiscombe pub insidecroydon.com/2025/06/05/t... #Croydon #Pubs #Planning @englishheritage.bsky.social @thevicsoc.bsky.social

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Shock and inaction is numbing communities to these killings insidecroydon.com/2025/06/05/s... #Croydon #CroydonInCrisis #Murder @kwajo.bsky.social

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Something good happened in Croydon and the Mayor ruined it. #reclaimcroydon

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Trebles all-round! Kerswell's nominated herself for an award insidecroydon.com/2025/06/04/t... #Croydon #CroydonInCrisis @londoncentric.media @londoncouncils.bsky.social

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Free school meals for 500,000 more children from 2026 if family claims Universal Credit. Great. Can lift 100,000 children out of poverty. But those not eligible for UC? If families earn marginally more, children will lose free meals. Universal right means, no one loses. Adjust the tax system.

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End: Right to buy Buy to let mortgages Permitted developing turning houses into HMOs Start: Rent controls More Council houses State buying empty properties and/or taxing them more www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Humiliated Perry gets police to evict Wandle Park squatters insidecroydon.com/2025/06/04/h... #Croydon #CroydonInCrisis #ReclaimCroydon @itvnews.bsky.social @jim.londoncentric.media

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Overdue maintenance works approved for six Croydon schools insidecroydon.com/2025/06/04/o... #Croydon #Schools @norburyhigh.bsky.social @neunion.bsky.social

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Chance to see Shaun the Sheep at BFI without getting fleeced insidecroydon.com/2025/06/04/c... #Croydon #Education #Schools @aardmananimations.bsky.social

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Slow Horses 🐌🐴 | tv+ 112 days until #SlowHorses Season 5

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💼 "Farage was once a fan of Truss’s economic policy. He praised her fiscal farrago as “the best Conservative budget since 1986”. The year harked back to the heyday of Thatcherism."

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Tory legacy. Fire stations in England “falling apart”, Funding down by £1bn, call outs up by a fifth. Firefighter numbers down by a quarter in seven years, 11,000 full-time staff. Population increased but lack of investment in infrastructure, tax cuts for the rich. Readying for privatisation?

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Take a journey back in time with the 418 vintage bus day insidecroydon.com/2025/06/03/t... #Kingston #Epsom #Leatherhead #Surrey #Buses

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Businesses! Speed up your cashflow by using myPOS insidecroydon.com/2025/06/03/b... #Croydon #Advertisement #Business #myPOS

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Frith Road murder victim is named while second man arrested insidecroydon.com/2025/06/02/f... #Croydon #Murder #MarjamaOsman

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£1,000 per day 'Interim Adam' lands Croydon planning job insidecroydon.com/2025/06/02/1... #Croydon #CroydonInCrisis @itvnews.bsky.social @garethtbij.bsky.social

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Where Mayor Perry has failed, squatters have opened park café insidecroydon.com/2025/06/02/w... #Croydon #WandlePark #CroydonInCrisis

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Last week's top posts: Knife attack on Frith Road in broad daylight claims two victims insidecroydon.com/2025/05/31/k... #Croydon #Murder #KnifeCrime

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Last week's top posts: Superdry closure is the latest nail in Whitgift Centre's coffin insidecroydon.com/2025/05/30/s... #Croydon #CroydonInCrisis @retailweek.bsky.social @propertyweek.bsky.social

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Last week's top posts: SuperLoop route to Heathrow will continue to serve Croydon insidecroydon.com/2025/05/30/s... #Croydon #Heathrow #Sutton #SuperLoop

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Last week's top posts: Delve into the history of Crystal Palace Park in a day of talks insidecroydon.com/2025/06/01/d... #Croydon #Bromley #History @thevicsoc.bsky.social

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Last week's top posts: Council boss denies demanding £200,000 in Palace parade row insidecroydon.com/2025/05/24/c... #Croydon #CroydonInCrisis #cpfc

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NEW: Lisa Nandy removes herself from final decision on leader of football regulator. He donated to her leadership campaign - as well as Starmers. Shows the sensitivities now around donors/cronyism. Story: www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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Croydon's man of adventure who founded New Zealand town insidecroydon.com/2025/06/01/c... #Croydon #Otago #NewZealand

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Man arrested in Frith Street stabbing murder investigation insidecroydon.com/2025/06/01/m... #Croydon #Crime #Murder

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Delve into the history of Crystal Palace Park in a day of talks insidecroydon.com/2025/06/01/d... #Croydon #CrystalPalace #History @thevicsoc.bsky.social

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Sanderstead Horticultural Society Summer Show, June 21 insidecroydon.com/2025/06/01/s... #Croydon #Sanderstead #Gardens

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