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Croydon’s Black Friday: Allders a sad sign of wider decline
Friday, September 7, 2012 will go down as the latest dark day in the history of Croydon. The announcement of the closure of Allders may not seem as tragic or dramatic as the events of the 8/8 riots of...
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Schools job raises questions about Barwell’s Foundation links
The announcement this afternoon that Gavin Barwell is to be the parliamentary private secretary to the controversial education minister, Michael Gove, has led to renewed questions about the Croydon...
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Trinity Old Boy opts to stand on dubious election platform
What does the Monster Raving Loony party candidate for Croydon North have in common with Conservative MP Gavin Barwell, Cuddly Dudley Mead, the deputy leader of Croydon Council, and the very ex-Tory...
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Croydon 11-year-old gets to lead England at Twickenham
On the day that Chris Robshaw, the former Warlingham rugby club youth player, was named as England captain for the forthcoming autumn internationals, the RFU also announced that to strengthen the bond...
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Fisher and Whitgift one game away from cup clash
RUGBY ROUND-UP: Local focus is on schools games this week, with Whitgift and John Fisher in Daily Mail Cup action on Wednesday. Both schools have proven themselves as capable of producing among the...
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Convincing victory lifts PJF to fifth in league table
RUGBY ROUND-UP: All good things must come to an end, and after a sequence of six wins, Warlingham suffered a bitter defeat on Saturday, going down 20-13 at home against Aylesford Bulls in their London...
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Historical assets ought to be foundation for Croydon’s future
CROYDON COMMENTARY: A charitable foundation with assets of more than £200 million could be doing more to make the most of the borough’s historical heritage, says DAVID CALLAM The Whitgift Foundation...
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Croydon Tories proudly announce new signing: John Loony
The recruitment drive by Croydon Conservatives, after nearly a year’s hard work, has delivered its first significant new member: John Cartwright, also known as John Loony, the habitual deposit-loser...
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Rollerball 2013: coming to a Croydon school near you
Roller derby is Britain’s secret sports obsession, and Croydon’s very own league is growing fast and has a new home venue, reports LILY RAE An import from the United States, even for those who have...
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Council’s Mr & Mrs act that defies proper declarations
The move by Croydon Council to take over the running of the Fairfield Halls has thrown a supertrouper spotlight on some of the interests, and potential conflicts of interest, of leading members of the...
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Cultivating culture is year-round project, not just three weeks
CROYDON COMMENTARY: In a previous column, DAVID CALLAM argued for a festival celebrating the borough’s heritage. But next month’s Croydon Heritage Festival misses the target in a number of important...
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Inspired Croydon Harrier Safo latest to join the golden greats
IAN LAMONT catches up with two high-flying athletes who, inspired by the London Olympics, won medals at the weekend’s European junior championships Inspired by the Olympics? The record haul of 19...
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How you can tell which schools are really making the grade
School pupils – whether attending the borough’s high-profile independents, our state secondaries or the privatised academies – will be receiving their life-shaping GCSE, AS and A level results in the...
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Council fails to do its homework on Croydon GCSE results
So how did Croydon’s pupils do in their GCSEs this year? Our education correspondent GENE BRODIE gives Croydon Council an “F” for its efforts in failing to release full results for local schools, when...
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Barwell’s schools arithmetic offers only a partial picture
GENE BRODIE, our education correspondent, has ordered a local MP to write 100 lines: “I must not deceive by using partial statistics on Croydon’s schools’ performance” Gary Barlow, as the MP is known...
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Lanfranc is latest Croydon school in fear of academisation
GENE BRODIE, our education correspondent, wades through the morass of educational half-truths to investigate why private education is quite so popular in Croydon This week’s latest Ofsted tables of...
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Charity reform required to alter Foundation’s influence
CROYDON COMMENTARY: At the weekend, Susan Oliver asked: what is the real role in Croydon of the multi-million pound Whitgift Foundation, the owners of much of the land being redeveloped as part of the...
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Rigourous? Gaffe-in Barwell gets in a spell of trouble
Oh dear. Michael Gove, the education secretary, will be displeased. Standards must be maintained, after all. Will he order gaffe-prone Gavin to stay behind for detention, or tell him to write 200...
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Council pays public money to private school for election count
Croydon’s Tory-run council is to pay thousands of pounds of tax-payers’ money to a wealthy private school to use its halls for the election count later this month, instead of using its own buildings,...
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Addiscombe teacher’s tale of Hastings Banda attracts plaudits
Among the four plays in the final of the International Playwriting Festival being staged at the Fairfield Halls this weekend is a new piece called Ngwasi, written by a science teacher at Trinity...
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