MayorWatch (Free subscription) | yesterday
Croydon Council is warning all landlords operating all ‘Homes is Multiple Occupancy’ - properties used as bedsits or shared houses - to ensure they are properly licensed after a company was found guilty of running an unlicensed HMO from a three-bedroom property in the borough and fined almost £15,000
The Croydonian (Free subscription) | yesterday
Not that the man and woman on the Croydon omnibus would have noticed, there is another election taking place in North America, and it is the NDP, the nearest local equivalent to our own dear Labour party, that keeps falling over its shoelaces - four of its candidates have had to stand down becauuse of earlier acts of folly - or worse - showing up on the internet . Given that there are 308 seats in...
IOL (Free subscription) | 04/10/2008
A 64-year-old man has been arrested after car parts were found in his Croydon home near Edenvale, Johannesburg.
Sitbonzo (Free subscription) | 04/10/2008
Join me in a stroll through this lovely wood which has been used by man since Neolithic times. Popular with dog walkers, horse riders and families it really is a haven of green just a short way from the centre of Croydon. Walk in the woods. Croham Hurst. 3rd Octonber 2008. from Sitbonzo on Vimeo.
The Independent (Free subscription) | 04/10/2008
Sometimes new sounds emerge from the most unlikely places. Croydon helped spawn dubstep; Bolton the Blackout Crew's donk. Now it's the turn of Scandinavia, home to a new hybrid known as Synthetik Skandinavian Funk or "skweee". Yet what sounds like some awful novelty dance craze is in fact a curious mix of instrumental R&B and minimal techno. According to Fran Carlqvist, founder of Stockholm-based...
The Croydonian (Free subscription) | 03/10/2008
Judging from using the search facilty of the exciting new financial transparency site , it was diddley squat last year. Rooting around on the Defra CAP search site shows that the fortunate Mr M W Keyte, whoever he is, received €309.21 last year The UK got €1.023.527.191,45 and France €1.238.664.985,87. I am fiddling around with search parameters to see what else I can turn up, but just who is the unnamed...
auntie joanna writes (Free subscription) | 30/09/2008
...on Saturday morning, cycling to east Croydon station at 5am in order to make it to London to catch the train to Birmingham. I was off to Maryvale , to begin a degree in Theology! I'll let you know how things progress. This first weekend of lectures was simply terrific and I am feeling very enthusiastic indeed.
Looking for a voice (Free subscription) | 29/09/2008
HM Revenue & Customs has blocked a website run by one of its sternest critics from being accessed by staff, who have in the past posted there. The site is run by Ken Frost, an accountant and occasional visitor to this column, who has also campaigned against Croydon, his local council, and the accountants' trade body. In this case, I have some sympathy with HMRC because the site is often very rude indeed....
Sitbonzo (Free subscription) | 26/09/2008
Jessop House. New home of the Croydon Advertiser from Sitbonzo on Vimeo.
MayorWatch (Free subscription) | 26/09/2008
The four councils participating in the South London Waste Partnership (Croydon, Kingston, Merton and Sutton) are asking residents for their views on waste management. Residents having until 31st October to ensure their views are heard and help shape the partnership's policies.
Strollerderby (Free subscription) | 25/09/2008
When you’re home with kids all day, thoughts go through your head. Some of those are, um, impure thoughts. And sometimes those thoughts settle on some fairly odd choices. Which is why I found this article from the Croydon Guardian over in England to be screamingly funny. Weekend radio host and mother of two Natasha Desborough has published her own web-only off-the-wall parenting guide, and while there...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 25/09/2008
Agnès Poirier: Le Grand Paris urgently needs reshaping. But is the south London super-suburb the right model?
The BN Village (Free subscription) | 24/09/2008
Tuesday 7 October, 6.30-8pm Join us for the launch of Croydon's Black History Month 2008. The celebration will include music from local jazz and RnB musicians Java Groove and Senegalese singer Nuru Kane with his band Bayefall Gnawa. Rum punch, rotis, saltfish fritters and other delicious refreshements will be supplied by Roti Masters, Croydon's finest Trinidadian caterers. FREE please RSVP to arts@croydon.gov.uk...
Hammers Mad (Free subscription) | 24/09/2008
This is your chance to win a pair of tickets to the "Forever Blowing Bubbles a night of West Ham Nostalgia" event at Fairfield Halls in Croydon on Monday 6th October.
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 24/09/2008
Hayley Lewis, organisational development manager, Croydon council
