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Inside Croydon @insidecroydon.bsky.social · 29m

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Bus ticket police officer gets written warning over misconduct

A police constable stationed in Croydon, Perry Lathwood, acted in a ‘disrespectful and unprofessional’ manner when he called a black mum ‘a daft cow’ as he arrested her on W…

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Inside Croydon @insidecroydon.bsky.social · 3h

MPs told that Croydon flats are example of how not to build insidecroydon.com/2025/10/15/m... #Croydon #CroydonInCrisis #Housing @kwajo.bsky.social @insidehousing.bsky.social @brixtonbuzz.bsky.social

MPs told that Croydon flats are example of how not to build

The appalling conditions in ‘luxury apartments’ in new-build Croydon flats at The Fold opposite Croydon Town Hall were raised with a House of Commons select committee hearing yesterday …

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Inside Croydon @insidecroydon.bsky.social · 6h

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Broad Green firm Casa Argentina wins national business award

A Croydon businessman, Max Pistone, has been celebrating this week after his firm, Casa Argentina, won the Best Customer Service prize at the 2025 National Entrepreneur Awards, bringing one of the …

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Inside Croydon @insidecroydon.bsky.social · 23h

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Inside Croydon @insidecroydon.bsky.social · 1d

There's help, and some hope, on offer to renters this week insidecroydon.com/2025/10/14/t... #Croydon #Housing #TheFold @generationrent.bsky.social @kwajo.bsky.social

There’s help, and some hope, on offer to renters this week

Our housing correspondent, BARRATT HOLMES, on what changes await renters during Renters’ Rights Awareness Week Renters in Croydon are about to have their experience transformed. At least, tha…

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Inside Croydon @insidecroydon.bsky.social · 1d

Take the kids to see London City Lionesses for just a quid insidecroydon.com/2025/10/14/t... #Bromley #Croydon #Football #Lionesses

Take the kids to see London City Lionesses for just a quid

London City Lionesses are opening their gates for half-term with a budget-friendly Kids for a Quid offer. London City, in their first season as a Women’s Super League side, will this Sunday, …

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Inside Croydon @insidecroydon.bsky.social · 1d

Takeaway fire in Addiscombe ignites questions over planning insidecroydon.com/2025/10/14/t... #Croydon #Addiscombe #Planning @london-fire.bsky.social

Takeaway fire in Addiscombe ignites questions over planning

Addiscombe residents are asking questions of the council’s planning department after a fire at a takeaway this morning that they say could have been avoided and “put dozens of lives in …

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Inside Croydon @insidecroydon.bsky.social · 1d

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READER OFFER: Half-price tickets for Croydonites comedy

The Croydonites Festival is offering Inside Croydon readers half-price tickets – while seats are available – for one of its headline acts: James Rowland Dies at the End of the Show. Wit…

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Inside Croydon @insidecroydon.bsky.social · 1d

Apple Day: a second bite - Croydon Ecology Centre, Oct 19 insidecroydon.com/2025/10/14/a... #Croydon #Apples #WhatsOn

Apple Day: a second bite – Croydon Ecology Centre, Oct 19

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Inside Croydon @insidecroydon.bsky.social · 5d

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iC subscribers get 20% off book that’s rocked Downing Street

Inside Croydon’s paying subscribers qualify for a massive 20% discount on a new book which has sent shockwaves through Downing Street and Westminster. The Fraud: Keir Starmer, Morgan McSweene…

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The New World @thenewworldmag.bsky.social · 7h

SPECIAL REPORT 🚨 The multimillionaire controls a network of news channels, publications and think tanks that the left could only dream of. If Reform or the Tories win the next election, he will become the country’s most influential non-politician

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Inside Croydon @insidecroydon.bsky.social · 2d

The Fraud: how Reed's Labour spied on Croydon councillors insidecroydon.com/2025/10/13/t... #Croydon #TheFraud @left-foot-forward.bsky.social @labourlist.bsky.social

The Fraud: how Reed’s Labour spied on Croydon councillors

Three years ago, Al Jazeera broadcast a series of films, called The Labour Files, based on information gleaned from one of the biggest data leaks in history. One episode was devoted to events that …

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Inside Croydon @insidecroydon.bsky.social · Dec 16

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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING: Shabana Mahmood announces that immigrants will have to recite Beowulf in its entirety in Old English, without notes, before being allowed entry to the U.K.

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Anthony Painter @anthonypainter.bsky.social · 20h

I bet Miliband treated himself to a new parker pen for this one. Then posted it as a gift to Andrea Jenkyns. With a bow.

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Ed Miliband approves UK’s biggest solar farm at Lincolnshire site

Tillbridge solar farm will be built in county where Reform UK’s anti-renewables agenda has rising support

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Inside Croydon @insidecroydon.bsky.social · Jul 22

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Inside Croydon @insidecroydon.bsky.social · 8d

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Inside Croydon @insidecroydon.bsky.social · 7d

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Inside Croydon @insidecroydon.bsky.social · 23h

#BINMAGEDDON: Perry sneaks out charges for wheelie bins insidecroydon.com/2025/10/14/b... #Croydon #CroydonInCrisis @veoliauk.bsky.social

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Inside Croydon @insidecroydon.bsky.social · 1d

There's help, and some hope, on offer to renters this week insidecroydon.com/2025/10/14/t... #Croydon #Housing #TheFold @generationrent.bsky.social @kwajo.bsky.social

There’s help, and some hope, on offer to renters this week

Our housing correspondent, BARRATT HOLMES, on what changes await renters during Renters’ Rights Awareness Week Renters in Croydon are about to have their experience transformed. At least, tha…

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Inside Croydon @insidecroydon.bsky.social · 1d

Take the kids to see London City Lionesses for just a quid insidecroydon.com/2025/10/14/t... #Bromley #Croydon #Football #Lionesses

Take the kids to see London City Lionesses for just a quid

London City Lionesses are opening their gates for half-term with a budget-friendly Kids for a Quid offer. London City, in their first season as a Women’s Super League side, will this Sunday, …

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Inside Croydon @insidecroydon.bsky.social · 1d

Takeaway fire in Addiscombe ignites questions over planning insidecroydon.com/2025/10/14/t... #Croydon #Addiscombe #Planning @london-fire.bsky.social

Takeaway fire in Addiscombe ignites questions over planning

Addiscombe residents are asking questions of the council’s planning department after a fire at a takeaway this morning that they say could have been avoided and “put dozens of lives in …

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Inside Croydon @insidecroydon.bsky.social · 1d

READER OFFER: Half-price tickets for Croydonites comedy insidecroydon.com/2025/10/14/r... #Croydon #Comedy #Fringe #Croydonites

READER OFFER: Half-price tickets for Croydonites comedy

The Croydonites Festival is offering Inside Croydon readers half-price tickets – while seats are available – for one of its headline acts: James Rowland Dies at the End of the Show. Wit…

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Inside Croydon @insidecroydon.bsky.social · 1d

Apple Day: a second bite - Croydon Ecology Centre, Oct 19 insidecroydon.com/2025/10/14/a... #Croydon #Apples #WhatsOn

Apple Day: a second bite – Croydon Ecology Centre, Oct 19

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Inside Croydon @insidecroydon.bsky.social · 2d

Croydonites provides a front-row seat for hard-hitting comedy insidecroydon.com/2025/10/13/c... #Croydon #Comedy #Croydonites @comedycentral.bsky.social #FatihaElGhourri

Croydonites provides a front-row seat for hard-hitting comedy

The 2025 Croydonites Festival is well underway, and KEN TOWL could not resist the chance to go along to see the sold-old Dick’s Picks (geddit?!) Dick Denham had been tasked with curating a ra…

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