Remembrance Day is approaching and this year you won't be able to buy a poppy as easily as in the past. Please buy your poppy online here, and soon, so you get it in time for Remembrance Day. Our ex Servicemen need your help more than ever this year. Every Poppy counts.

WATCH OUT. Stealing catalytic converters is an increasing problem.

For people who wonder what Councillors do, here is a small example.

The Mayor of Croydon, cross-party councillors, civic leaders and council staff stood united on Friday to pay tribute to a local police officer Sergeant Matt Ratana who tragically lost his life in the line of duty last week.

The Interim Executive Governing Board ('IEGB') of Virgo Fidelis Convent school, with the support of the Archdiocese of Southwark and Croydon Council is proposing to close Virgo Fidelis Convent school. The IEGB is proposing the school’s closure because they believe that it is no longer viable – a

Selsdon library is open, albeit on reduced hours and of course with Covid19 precautions in place. Special procedures are required in all areas, especially with the computers that can be booked for usage by residents, but these are working well.

The October update, which is attached here, has just been issued. Our local updates are 

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This evening Croydon’s Councillors will be voting on a motion of no confidence in the leader of the Council, Councillor Tony Newman, and the Cabinet Member for Finance & Resources, Councillor Simon Hall.

Local residents will have seen notices posted around Addington Park informing passers-by that an application had been lodged for a premises licence for the park.

My first ever management course was at The Grove, near Watford, now a hotel but then a training establishment for railways employees.