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Streatham Choral returns to Cadogan Hall with a vibrant performance of Joseph Haydn’s The Creation, one of the most joyful and imaginative works in the choral repertoire.

Inspired by Handel’s London performances, this radiant oratorio brings to life the wonder of the natural world through dazzling choruses, lyrical solos and richly coloured orchestration.

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Streatham Choral returns to Cadogan Hall with a vibrant performance of Joseph Haydn’s The Creation, one of the most joyful and imaginative works in the choral repertoire.

Inspired by Handel’s London performances, this radiant oratorio brings to life the wonder of the natural world through dazzling choruses, lyrical solos and richly coloured orchestration.

ELECTION EXCLUSIVE: Reform in Croydon is in meltdown, with members resigning over top-down decisions from Farage HQ. WALTER CRONXITE, Political Editor, reports on the Fairfield Halls exercise in onanism, where the real fireworks were going off backstage

Grifter-in-chief Nigel Farage launched Reform’s London election campaign at the Fairfield Halls on Saturday amid pyrotechnics and his usual, self-regarding rhetoric.

There’s a very special match being played tomorrow, between a parliamentary team made up of footballer MPs and peers, against the England Parkinson’s walking football team.

One of the players in the England team is Croydon resident Seth Gillman, who made his international debut on the team’s trip to Spain last October.

Tomorrow’s big match is to raise awareness amongst the nation’s lawmakers of the benefits of regular exercise and activity for People with Parkinson’s, or PwP.

After a hiatus in 2025, the Streatham Kite Day is back in 2026, this year being staged on Sunday, May 10, from 11am to 5pm.

The event is London’s only free family-friendly kite festival, and combines world-class kite displays with the opportunity to fly your own.

First staged in 1998 as “Wind Day”, thousands flock to Streatham Common to see the displays, fly a kite, enjoy the various attractions lined up for children, and also sample the delicious food and drink on offer at the stalls.

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For ticket bookings for The Sweet Science of Bruising and more information about Theatre Workshop Coulsdon, visit their website by clicking here

Click here to read Inside Croydon’s review of Theatre Workshop Croydon’s previous production, Animal Farm

And click here for a peek behind the scenes as TWC prepares to stage The Sweet Science of Bruising

The former DEFRA minister ignored all calls to nationalise the water industry. Now campaigners want to know why, and whether lobbying firm Global Counsel had any role in the matter

Steve Reed, the MP for Streatham (and Croydon North, when he can be bothered), who is already up to his neck in the Labour Together scandal that has engulfed the Labour Party in disgrace, is now being dragged back into the swamp of sewage that surrounds the water industry.

An Old Bailey jury yesterday heard how father-of-three Leroy Mitchell was shot in the head at point-blank range in an “act of petty revenge”.

Mitchell was 35 when he was killed at a silent disco in Birdhurst Road, South Croydon, in the early hours of October 2, 2021.

Despite a £20,000 reward offered for information that might lead to a conviction, arrests in connection with the shooting were not made until last summer.

It’s a case of Foxtrot Oscar for CLP chair Harman, as his former boss comes under increasing pressure over his role with Labour Together and his ‘deeply unprofessional and possibly unlawful’ handling of local elections. On the fifth anniversary of the hack of this website, our Political Editor, WALTER CRONXITE, reports

Six months after journalist Paul Holden revealed that he had been followed by private investigators, today the Cabinet Office said it will be “looking at the facts” around Labour Together, the organisation established by Croydon MP Steve Reed and his former Lambeth Council aide, Morgan McSweeney.

It has been reported that Prime Minister Keir Starmer has ordered the Cabinet Office probe. “It absolutely needs to be looked into,” Starmer said this morning.

The investigation comes only after McSweeney left his job at No10 as the Prime Minister’s Chief of Staff.