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Perry drives a black cab through council's consultation rules insidecroydon.com/2026/08/05/p... #Croydon #CroydonInCrisis #Taxis #SchoolStreets @neunion.bsky.social
Perry drives a black cab through council’s consultation rules
The Croydon Mayor’s latest Trumpian edict, to ingratiate himself with London taxi drivers, is not quite what it seems, as our Town Hall correspondent, KEN LEE, reports Jason Perry, Croydon…
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Hollywood superstar Chaplin takes his place on Coulsdon trail insidecroydon.com/2026/08/05/h... #Croydon #Coulsdon #Chaplin @davidleancinema.bsky.social @localhistoryhub.bsky.social
Hollywood superstar Chaplin takes his place on Coulsdon trail
Charlie Chaplin, one of the greatest movie stars of all time, is featured in the latest finial on the Coulsdon Art Trail. Chaplin’s association with Coulsdon is, perhaps typically of his scre…
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Children's home firm based in New Addington fined £100,000 insidecroydon.com/2026/08/05/c... #Croydon #Ofsted #ChildrensHomes @ofstednews.bsky.social
Children’s home firm based in New Addington fined £100,000
A care company based in New Addington has become the first to be successfully prosecuted and fined for running illegal children’s homes. Catalyst Care Ltd and its directors, Davidson Lynch-Sh…
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Mini Beast Hunt with Roger Hawkins, Selsdon Wood, Aug 12 insidecroydon.com/2026/08/05/m... #Croydon #Selsdon #Nature
Mini Beast Hunt with Roger Hawkins, Selsdon Wood, Aug 12
C O M M U N I T Y A D V E R T I S E M E N T For more information about this and other events, visit the Friends of Selsdon Wood website by clicking here
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Perry drives a black cab through council's consultation rules insidecroydon.com/2026/08/05/p... #Croydon #CroydonInCrisis #Taxis #SchoolStreets @neunion.bsky.social
Perry drives a black cab through council’s consultation rules
The Croydon Mayor’s latest Trumpian edict, to ingratiate himself with London taxi drivers, is not quite what it seems, as our Town Hall correspondent, KEN LEE, reports Jason Perry, Croydon…
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Hollywood superstar Chaplin takes his place on Coulsdon trail insidecroydon.com/2026/08/05/h... #Croydon #Coulsdon #Chaplin @davidleancinema.bsky.social @localhistoryhub.bsky.social
Hollywood superstar Chaplin takes his place on Coulsdon trail
Charlie Chaplin, one of the greatest movie stars of all time, is featured in the latest finial on the Coulsdon Art Trail. Chaplin’s association with Coulsdon is, perhaps typically of his scre…
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Children's home firm based in New Addington fined £100,000 insidecroydon.com/2026/08/05/c... #Croydon #Ofsted #ChildrensHomes @ofstednews.bsky.social
Children’s home firm based in New Addington fined £100,000
A care company based in New Addington has become the first to be successfully prosecuted and fined for running illegal children’s homes. Catalyst Care Ltd and its directors, Davidson Lynch-Sh…
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Mini Beast Hunt with Roger Hawkins, Selsdon Wood, Aug 12 insidecroydon.com/2026/08/05/m... #Croydon #Selsdon #Nature
Mini Beast Hunt with Roger Hawkins, Selsdon Wood, Aug 12
C O M M U N I T Y A D V E R T I S E M E N T For more information about this and other events, visit the Friends of Selsdon Wood website by clicking here
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Complaints against Perry's council soar by 51% in two years insidecroydon.com/2026/08/04/c... #Croydon #CroydonInCrisis #Ombudsman @brixtonbuzz.bsky.social @patrickjbutler.bsky.social @londoncentric.media
Public outcry helps save Triangle trees from death by tarmac insidecroydon.com/2026/08/04/p... #Croydon #Environment #StreetTrees @greenpeaceuk.bsky.social @chrisgpackham.bsky.social
Croydon and Sutton are next to use Met's anti-shoplifting tech insidecroydon.com/2026/08/04/c... #Croydon #Sutton #Crime #Shoplifting #Met
Croydon and Sutton are next to use Met’s anti-shoplifting tech
According to Scotland Yard’s own figures, fewer than one-third of reported shoplifting incidents using a new system result in cautions or convictions Croydon’s high streets are to get n…
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Passport to Chocolate, workshops at Cocoa Jones, from Aug 6 insidecroydon.com/2026/08/04/p... #Croydon #Chocolate #Purley
Passport to Chocolate, workshops at Cocoa Jones, from Aug 6
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Ah, all's fine. Profit as the planet burns. Nothing to see here. www.theguardian.com/business/ng-...
Revealed: major oil firms make $93bn profits amid war and climate crisis
Iran conflict windfall over three months reignites calls for companies ‘cashing in on human misery’ to pay for environmental damage
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Complaints against Perry's council soar by 51% in two years insidecroydon.com/2026/08/04/c... #Croydon #CroydonInCrisis #Ombudsman @brixtonbuzz.bsky.social @patrickjbutler.bsky.social @londoncentric.media
Street trees are good for our health and a real benefit in reducing pollution and the heat island effect. They are also feeling the strain of our changing climate and so need more help, not being smothered in hot asphalt
Inside Croydon@insidecroydon.bsky.social · yesterdayPublic outcry helps save Triangle trees from death by tarmac insidecroydon.com/2026/08/04/p... #Croydon #Environment #StreetTrees @greenpeaceuk.bsky.social @chrisgpackham.bsky.social
BP profits more than double to $5.7bn in three months as Iran war sends oil prices soaring - "While BP banks enormous profits, millions of households are paying the price" #energycrisis #climatecrisis www.theguardian.com/business/202...
BP profits more than double as Iran war sends oil prices soaring
Energy company’s $5.73bn quarterly profits come after Shell posted second highest quarterly earnings on record
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Direct, full-time jobs opening Rosebank oilfield would create: 450 D, f-t jobs opening Jackdaw gasfield would create: 27 D, f-t jobs in UK's net-zero economy: 300,000 + 400,000 more on the way D, f-t jobs in the rest of the green economy: 600,000 Is that really the hill Burnham wants to die on?
Public outcry helps save Triangle trees from death by tarmac insidecroydon.com/2026/08/04/p... #Croydon #Environment #StreetTrees @greenpeaceuk.bsky.social @chrisgpackham.bsky.social
Croydon and Sutton are next to use Met's anti-shoplifting tech insidecroydon.com/2026/08/04/c... #Croydon #Sutton #Crime #Shoplifting #Met
Croydon and Sutton are next to use Met’s anti-shoplifting tech
According to Scotland Yard’s own figures, fewer than one-third of reported shoplifting incidents using a new system result in cautions or convictions Croydon’s high streets are to get n…
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Passport to Chocolate, workshops at Cocoa Jones, from Aug 6 insidecroydon.com/2026/08/04/p... #Croydon #Chocolate #Purley
Passport to Chocolate, workshops at Cocoa Jones, from Aug 6
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Ansari's £90m property empire in collapse as receivers move in insidecroydon.com/2026/08/03/a... #Croydon #Businesss @richardbrooks.bsky.social @londoncentric.media @thevicsoc.bsky.social
Ansari’s £90m property empire in collapse as receivers move in
In the latest sign of difficulties for businesses in Croydon, one of the borough’s biggest developers and landlords – a political donor to Sadiq Khan and Yvette Cooper in the past ̵…
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Lidl summer camp at Legacy zone provides thoughts for food insidecroydon.com/2026/08/03/l... #Croydon #Food #Summer @onsidecharity.bsky.social
Lidl summer camp at Legacy zone provides thoughts for food
NADIA AZIZUDDIN visited the Legacy Youth Zone to witness the launch of an innovative project to teach youngsters how to eat more healthily Supermarket chain Lidl has joined forced with national you…
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After a month with no rain, London on new Amber health alert insidecroydon.com/2026/08/03/a... #Croydon #Drought #Heatwave
After a month with no rain, London on new Amber health alert
Croydon Council echoes 1970s advice to ‘bath with a friend’ to save water, as drought in the capital enters its third month An Amber health alert has come into force today, with tempera…
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This week's top posts: Man arrested after staff member stabbed at Sanderstead Shell insidecroydon.com/2026/07/31/m... #Croydon #Crime @crimestoppersuk.bsky.social
Man arrested after staff member stabbed at Sanderstead Shell
The police have made an arrest in connection with a violent attack on a member of staff at the Shell petrol station in Sanderstead late on Wednesday night, in what is widely thought to have been an…
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This week's top posts:'Superstar' Head loses appeal over Woodcote High dismissal insidecroydon.com/2026/07/31/s... #Croydon #Woodcote @neunion.bsky.social @warwickmansell.bsky.social
‘Superstar’ Head loses appeal over Woodcote High dismissal
Paul Mundy-Castle has lost his Employment Tribunal appeal over his 2021 dismissal from a secondary school in Coulsdon for ‘gross misconduct’. It is at least the third time that the form…
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