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insidecroydon.comUnpicking the Budget and the Bayeux Tapestry in our podcastThe latest episode of the Croydon Insider podcast is now available – free for our paying subscribers as premium content via Patreon, or for purchase on our Spotify page. It’s another ja…

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insidecroydon.comHow Croydon got its first shopping centre, 750 years agoCROYDON CHRONICLES: As the town centre’s ancient market reaches its 750th anniversary, DAVID MORGAN charts its growth from its beginnings as Butchers Row, aided by the patronage of commercial…

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insidecroydon.com‘Utterly outrageous’ proposal to withdraw disabled travel passThe consequences of the council losing its LTN case in the High Court in March, and with it millions of pounds in fine refunds and lost revenue, now sees Croydon’s failed Mayor taking travel …

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insidecroydon.comSteeleye Span’s Prior arrangements still sounding evergreenKEN TOWL goes all around his hat to interview Maddy Prior, lead singer of Steeleye Span, ahead of their concert at the Ashcroft Theatre on Nov 5 “We are heavy on sex and death,” says Maddy Prior as…

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insidecroydon.comHow Croydon got its first shopping centre, 750 years agoCROYDON CHRONICLES: As the town centre’s ancient market reaches its 750th anniversary, DAVID MORGAN charts its growth from its beginnings as Butchers Row, aided by the patronage of commercial…

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insidecroydon.comPerry looks to inflict pain for his failures on Croydon’s poorNot content with axing services that protect children, closing libraries and committing ‘cultural vandalism’ over CALAT, Croydon’s Mayor is now coming after lone-parent families a…

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insidecroydon.com‘Random guy from Croydon’ lifts global wildlife photo prizeAnother prize for a former BRIT School pupil – though this accolade was won in a photography competition by someone who does not own a camera Seth Forestson, who called himself “some ra…

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insidecroydon.com‘Utterly outrageous’ proposal to withdraw disabled travel passThe consequences of the council losing its LTN case in the High Court in March, and with it millions of pounds in fine refunds and lost revenue, now sees Croydon’s failed Mayor taking travel …

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insidecroydon.comSteeleye Span’s Prior arrangements still sounding evergreenKEN TOWL goes all around his hat to interview Maddy Prior, lead singer of Steeleye Span, ahead of their concert at the Ashcroft Theatre on Nov 5 “We are heavy on sex and death,” says Maddy Prior as…

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insidecroydon.comCoulsdon’s Red Clover Gardens gets a new coat of whitewashA housing scheme in Coulsdon has won the country’s top architecture award. Yet there’s not been a peep from the council’s propaganda department, usually desperate to spin anything…

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