A link with social media giant Twitter and coaching the homeless to use smartphones to help with training, getting a job and finding housing are some of the next steps in Croydon Council’s programme to further boost residents’ […]
Scores of ‘Big Lunch’ street parties took place across Croydon over the weekend to help celebrate the Queen’s 90th birthday.
Dozens of streets were closed and despite the weather people set up marquees in many local parks to […]
Ancient history goes on the road this week when the Museum of London Archaeology Time Truck comes to town as part of the Croydon Heritage Festival.
The bus will set up in North End at 11am on Saturday […]
An ambitious five-year action plan to make Croydon an even more prosperous, vibrant, happy and healthy borough is set to get the green light by the council’s cabinet next week.
Croydon’s Community Strategy 2016-21 sets out the council’s […]
A council pilot that has cut fly-tipping and boosted recycling by targeting waste dumped on shopfront pavements will expand throughout London Road this summer.
By August, over 1,800 shop owners and residents in the flats above from West […]
A talented eight-year-old South Croydon pupil hit the right note to win the first Croydon Heart Town competition for children to compose a song to help residents keep fit and healthy.
Megan Henderson, of Atwood Primary School, in […]
Thunder and lightning added to the excitement of the school-cycling races as thousands of people prepared to line the streets of Croydon for a night of professional road-racing on Tuesday (7 June).
The penultimate round of the Pearl […]
Two Croydon Council CCTV operators have been recognised in this year’s Metropolitan Police Local Authority CCTV Awards.
London’s surveillance camera commissioner, Tony Porter, presented awards to Carrie Russell and Colin Skilton at New Scotland Yard on Friday 3 June.
Carrie […]
The European Championship kicks off on Friday 10 June, and, while most people will be enjoying a month of football, others will become victims of domestic abuse.
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