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Croydon’s rewards for failure laid bare in Town Hall Rich List

Katherine Kerswell, Croydon’s chief executive who issued three Section 114 notices of effective bankruptcy during her time in charge at the council, was taking home salary and pensions totalling £223,838 in the year before she left Fisher’s Folly. Yet Kerswell … Continue reading

The day brave Pearl shone to save her mum’s life with 999 call

A six-year-old from Croydon saved her mother’s life by remembering she could phone 999 to call out an ambulance for a medical emergency. Mum Carole, 36, collapsed at home last summer after suffering a seizure and losing consciousness. She was … Continue reading

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Croydon’s rewards for failure laid bare in Town Hall Rich List

Katherine Kerswell, Croydon’s chief executive who issued three Section 114 notices of effective bankruptcy during her time in charge at the council, was taking home salary and pensions totalling £223,838 in the year before she left Fisher’s Folly. Yet Kerswell … Continue reading

The day brave Pearl shone to save her mum’s life with 999 call

A six-year-old from Croydon saved her mother’s life by remembering she could phone 999 to call out an ambulance for a medical emergency. Mum Carole, 36, collapsed at home last summer after suffering a seizure and losing consciousness. She was … Continue reading

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It’s ex-teacher v ‘technocrat’ in Mayor debate on education

The National Education Union in Croydon sent a set of questions to the leading mayoral candidates standing for election this Thursday. Disappointingly, as far as the NEU branch secretary, Joe Flynn, is concerned, there were no responses from either the … Continue reading

True crime show live on stage at Cryer Arts, Carshalton, May 10

C O M M U N I T Y A D V E R T I S E M E N T Book your tickets by clicking here Read more: Hear Scottish Detective’s crime scene secrets at the Cryer Inside … Continue reading

Time travel by velvet and smoke back to a Paris club in 1896

STEVEN DOWNES takes a trip back in time and a sip of a once-banned liquor Everyone these days appears to be on “a journey” of some kind or another. If you were to take a half-hour journey from East Croydon, … Continue reading

Langley Vale conservation talk, Honeywood Museum, May 28

C O M M U N I T Y A D V E R T I S E M E N T Inside Croydon – If you want real journalism, delivering real news, from a publication that is actually based … Continue reading