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Costly council Question Times offer few answers

Real local accountability, or a costly box-ticking exercise? Our roaming correspondent SOUTHSIDER went to the latest Croydon Question Time event this week for this report Earlier this year, Croydon...

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Rubbish? Greens smell a rat over this recycling scheme

As anticipated, there’s nothing more likely to stir up a bit of local interest than a load of old rubbish. But please don’t expect this to be another column about Richard Ottaway. Our rubbish report...

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Thomas shows true grit with £37m of Croydon’s money

Mouchel is a service company in crisis. But that hasn’t stopped their subsidiary winning a massive contract to maintain roads in Croydon, writes ANDREW PELLING When not advertising the borough’s...

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From shrink to spin doctor: now Lewis has gone all coy

Confirmation, of sorts, that Hayley Lewis, Croydon’s Head of Customer Strategy and Development, is being lined up for a move to lead the council’s Ministry of Truth (despite an absence of any previous...

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Croydon spends £1.7m on consultants and saves…£800,000

Croydon Council’s press department has surpassed itself with its latest release, which makes the exaggerated and wholly inaccurate headline claim of “Millions recovered from fraudulent council tax...

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Flip flop? Croydon’s library privatisation flipped into a flop

Did we say flip flop? The news of the awarding of the library management contract to swimming pool managers GLL which we related earlier this week has taken a further twist today, with the...

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Croydon’s CEO refuses to allow press to attend public meeting

Only in the dystopian, secretive world of Croydon in 2012 could an open meeting begin with a public servant, the £248,000 council chief executive, demanding that the press must leave. That’s exactly...

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Council’s Ministry of Truth spends record amounts on staff

Hayley Lewis, the trained psychologist who Croydon employs as its “Head of customer communications and strategy”, once suggested that a council communications department is “an unnecessary burden”. How...

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Few takers for Croydon’s £1.1m post-riots rates scheme

Eighteen months after the Croydon riots, and a senior councillor has been forced to admit that a £1.1 million scheme that was to attract 2,000 jobs to  the worst affected areas of the borough has yet...

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1.85%: Croydon in a Pickles over Council Tax hike

Mike Fisher, the leader of the Conservative group that tries to run Croydon Council, tonight raised the white flag at the Town Hall when – at the latest possible moment on a Friday evening just before...

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