After 24 years on Croydon Council, Maria Gatland will be standing down at the elections in May, her explosive past still unknown by many of the residents she represents. PETER GILLMAN provides the inside story
Long service: councillor Maria Gatland
When Tory councillor Maria Gatland announced this week that she was stepping down from the council in May, she received a rare accolade.
Inside Croydon, normally grudging in its appraisals of elected representatives, commented that she was “generally respected and admired by her fellow councillors of all parties”.
Inside Croydon made another intriguing comment, referring to her as “Dublin-born former Maria Maguire” and a “one-time IRA gun-runner”.
Yes, Gatland’s career was all the more remarkable for its astonishing provenance. Continue reading
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Inside Croydon will be sending the invoice for our proof-reading services to the incompetents at Croydon Conservatives’ HQ, after they made a late amendment when caught out with an untruth.
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After an absence of 16 years, there just might be a Councillor Barwell at Croydon Town Hall once again, after Croydon Conservatives today published their full slate of 70 council election candidates for the borough’s 28 wards.
Highlights include The Real Thing’s 50th anniversary tour, stand-up from Dara Ó Briain and one of those “sports jocks chat shit for a couple of hours” nights, this called “A Night of Eagles Glory”, featuring Crystal Palace former players such as Mark Bright, Clinton Morrison and John Salako.
No one was hurt, and although the fire was under control within barely half-an-hour of the Brigade being called out, the garden shed behind a house on Mosul Way, off Bromley Common, was completely destroyed.
