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Shapps: Croydon’s “breathtaking incompetence” on C-Tax
This from today’s Evening Standard. On the uncollected Council Tax in London boroughs. Including Croydon’s £35 million. Inner London Lambeth tops the list. But Croydon is second, and the first outer...
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Minister complains as council fails to claim £10m riot grant
Croydon’s recovery from the devastating 8/8 riots has been held back by Croydon Council failing to apply for millions of pounds in government grants. That is the shocking revelation given by the Reeves...
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Mead says he’s “proud” of Croydon’s £50m uncollected tax
£50,237,631.33. Say it to yourself, slowly. Fifty million, two hundred and thirty-seven thousand, six hundred and thirty-one pounds. And thirty-three pee. That’s £50,237,631.33 of Croydon Council‘s...
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South End residents and businesses look to oust Tesco
The first meeting of a new residents group for people living and working in and around the South End area of South Croydon made a strong case against allowing Tesco to open another Express store, using...
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Lansdowne Road Residents: meet the councillors
Following from the meeting of local residents with Croydon Central MP Gavin Barwell earlier this month, the Lansdowne Road Residents’ Association is to stage another meeting next week – this time...
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Promotions for Grant and Deighton; but nothing for Barwell?
The ConDem government’s week-long reshuffle has included much interest for locally based figures, with Helen Grant, who has a solicitors’ practice based on the Purley Way, getting promoted to a job at...
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Mary Portas’s TV company listed Croydon to get grant
Croydon received a £100,000 government grant last year after programme makers involved with tonight’s new Mary Portas Channel 4 series had named Surrey Street on a list of markets that they wanted...
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Shapps to face questions at India event on councillor’s conduct
Grant Shapps, the chairman of the Conservative party, is to be quizzed in Croydon tonight about the conduct of Councillor Jeet Bains, who has been at the centre of heated disputes at a local Sikh...
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Tory councillor resigns after sikh temple controversy
Jeet Bains, the Conservative councillor for Coulsdon West, has resigned his position as the chairman of the Croydon gurdwara, the sikh temple on St James’s Road, following complaints about his personal...
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