Eligible residents can apply from today for exemption permits to be able to drive through Croydon Healthy Neighbourhood camera schemes, which will go live on a trial basis from 30 September.

With our young people heading back to school, college and training following the summer holidays, I hope everyone enjoyed their time off and is feeling ready for a new academic year. We had some great results over the past fortnight and you can all be proud of your achievements.

All six of Croydon Council’s Extra Care services have been rated as ‘Good’ following Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspections.

It was wonderful to hear that Owami Davies was found safe and well on Tuesday more than six weeks after she went missing. This must be a huge relief for her family and friends after what will have been an unimaginably stressful time.

Croydon schools were busy today as pupils picked up their GCSE and year 11 examinations results. Year 11s had been faced with disruption and remote learning throughout the past two years of the pandemic, before finally sitting their first in-person end of year exams earlier this summer.