Entries open for Croydon Half-marathon: Mar 30
Online entries are now being accepted for the 2014 Croydon Half-marathon, sponsored by Streets Ahead and organised by Croydon Striders, to be staged on Sunday, March 30. It will be the fourth staging...
View ArticleRooney named as shooting witness in Pistorius murder trial
Croydon’s Olympic sprinter Martyn Rooney was with Oscar Pistorius and two other dinner guests in a restaurant when the “Blade Runner” is alleged to have fired a pistol, a court in Pretoria heard this...
View ArticleStreatham Common Six-mile race, Sept 27
Coming to Croydon South Norwood Arts Festival, July 5-20 David Lean Cinema: We Are The Best!, July 10 Croydon Folk and Blues Festival, July 12 David Lean Cinema: Half of a Yellow Sun, July 17 Love...
View ArticleRecord-setting sprinter takes national title at English Schools’
By Matthew Kiernan Sprinter James Dasaolu was yesterday named in the Great Britain team for next month’s European athletics championships being staged in Switzerland, thus joining his Croydon Harriers...
View ArticleInspired by Glasgow 2014? Get on track with Croydon Harriers
Croydon Harriers is hosting six free athletics sessions this August for budding young athletes aged from six to 18. Taking place at Croydon Sports Arena, a range of events will be on offer, including...
View ArticleDorothy Tyler: Athletics’ Silver Lady who stood up to Hitler
Sanderstead resident and Croham Hurst golfer Dorothy Tyler was one of this country’s greatest pioneers of women’s sport – two Olympic silver medals and two Empire Games golds as a high jumper...
View ArticleBromley leader Carr attacks Boris’s Palace consultation
Seconds out, round three: In a pull-no-punches letter sent to City Hall today, Stephen Carr, the leader of Tory-run Bromley Council, has condemned London Mayor Boris Johnson’s on-going consultation...
View ArticleCoe wants community to have its say over Palace plans
Sebastian Coe, the double Olympic gold medal-winner and former chairman of the organising committee of London’s acclaimed 2012 Games, wants the local community to back calls to save the Crystal Palace...
View ArticleYoung runners display mud and guts in London Youth Games
Report by Matthew Kiernan More than 60 young runners represented Croydon at the opening event of the 2015 Balfour Beatty London Youth Games at Parliament Hill Fields on Saturday, delivering a batch of...
View ArticleBromley 10km charity road race, Jan 11
Coming to Croydon Stop the Incinerator Public Meeting, Green Dragon, Jan 10 David Lean Cinema, Leviathan, Jan 13 Eagle Improv, Spread Eagle Theatre, Jan 14 Norwood Society talk: Penge, the making of a...
View ArticleFrank Harmer Memorial 10km road race, Mar 1
Coming to Croydon David Lean Cinema, The Imitation Game, Jan 22 South Croydon business breakfast, Jan 24 Storytime (for under-8s), Oval Tavern, Addiscombe, Jan 24 David Lean Cinema, Night Will Fall,...
View ArticleCroydon Harriers sprinter becomes four-try rugby star
Croydon Harriers recently lost one of their biggest talents – physically and metaphorically – to another sport, when British discus record-holder Lawrence Okoye signed up for the San Francisco 49ers...
View ArticleYoung Harriers break records at London Olympic Stadium
Three sprint relay teams from Croydon Harriers tasted victory in London’s Olympic Stadium at the Anniversary Games last Friday evening. Eight teams of Croydon Harriers sprinters got the chance to...
View ArticleRooney proves a point as he flies on his Chinese magic carpet
Croydon Harrier Martyn Rooney proved a point today, when the British athletics team captain stormed to a lifetime best performance in the 400 metres heats on the second day of the world championships...
View ArticleStreatham Common 6-mile cross-country race, Sep 26
Inside Croydon Events: for dates and links to what’s happening in and around Croydon, updated daily, click here Inside Croydon: Named among best regional media campaigns, 2014. Croydon’s only...
View ArticleTrustees abandon free school plan for Crystal Palace Park
Controversial plans to build a free school in the middle of a Grade II-listed public park have been abandoned. The Crystal Palace Primary School wanted the public to pay for its buildings in the middle...
View ArticleLally defies Olympic selectors to realise her lifelong dream
IAN LAMONT interviews a south London athlete who has overcome illness, depression and disappointment to drive her into becoming one of the world’s best discus throwers. Main photograph by IAN STRATTON...
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