OFF LICENCES GIVEN FIXED PENALTY NOTICES Cyclists stopped for riding on pavements

TWO OFF LICENCES in the Triangle area have had fixed penalty notices served on them after serving street drinkers who were "clearly drunk at the time" say police. The action comes as part of a crackdown by Crystal Palace Triangle policing team on street drinkers and beggars, pavement cycling - and drivers jumping the red …

LIGHTBOX ILLUMINATES SUPPORT FOR LIBRARY

Upper Norwood Library Trust has received a cheque for £1000 from Neville De Souza director of Crystal Palace-based developer Lightbox.The money was donated from the commission on art sales sold at Lightbox’s elegant redevelopment of the Thicket pub on Anerley Hill, which was the venue for a number of sales of local artists’ works.Lightbox’s Neville …

TRACEABLE LIQUID CUTS BURGLARY RATES

Metropolitan police trials in five boroughs - including Lambeth and Southwark - show traceable liquids delivered a reduction of at least 49 per cent in burglaries in just the target areas over a six month period. Traceable liquid is a pioneering property-marking technology containing a unique forensic code which can only be seen under ultraviolet …

CINEMA BUILDING MADE ‘ASSET OF COMMUNITY VALUE’

CINEMA CAMPAIGNERS have welcomed Bromley council's decision to make the former cinema building at 25 Church Road, Upper Norwood an 'asset of community value'. The move follows a request by the Picture Palace Campaign - set up to bring a cinema back to Crystal Palace after the former cinema was sold by Gala Bingo to …

GRAPE AND GRAIN FREEHOLD SOLD FOR £1.9 MILLION

THE AWARD-WINNING Grape and Grain pub has been bought by Wetherspoons in a £1.9 million deal. The pub - formerly The Sportsman and previously the Crystal Palace hotel - was on offer at £875,000. The freehold interest in the award winning pub the Grape & Grain in Crystal Palace has been sold by AG&G. Director …

TALK ON THE CRYSTAL PALACE

THE CRYSTAL PALACE is the subject of the latest talk to Norwood Society's local history group in their new home at Upper Norwood joint library this Thursday (April 17th). Phillip Emery of The Crystal Palace Foundation will bring to life the history of the Palace which did much to influence the development of the area. …

YOUTH GROUP’S DIGITAL INTERPRETATIONS OF HOCKNEY PRINTS DISPLAYED IN FREE EXHIBITION

YOUTH GROUP'S DIGITAL INTERPRETATIONS OF HOCKNEY PRINTS DISPLAYED IN FREE EXHIBITION / ISLAM REVISITED IN DULWICH PICTURE GALLERY LECTURE / SYDENHAM ARTS FESTIVAL / CINEMA MUSEUM A free exhibition at Dulwich Picture Gallery this weekend is displaying work created during Perceptions and Reflections, an animation project with Salmagundi Films and Redthread Youth Club. Over five weeks young …

SOUTHWARK CHILDREN’S HOME IN JIMMY SAVILE PROBE

Southwark council has launched an investigation into one of its former children's homes following a request from secretary of state for education Michael Gove. Southwark's investigation - in partnership with the NSPCC - centres on The Hollies in Sidcup which was administered by the council from 1965 until it closed in 1989. A Southwark council …

YOUR CHANCE TO ‘MILK’ A COW – OR GO TO A KIDS BOOK LAUNCH

CRYSTAL PALACE FOOD MARKET bottom of Haynes Lane / top of Bedwardine Road. Saturdays 10 am to 3 pm. "Meat, vegetables, fruit, eggs, honey, bread, cakes, salads, hot foods, the Cafe Thing, coffee, tea, pastries, cheese, dairy and munch munch more." (And there's a 'drop box' for Norwood Foodbank) Saturday April 12th Lots for kids …

KICC IN ‘THEATRE’ BID FOR FORMER CINEMA Indoor sporting events also planned as part of 18 hours a day opening

THE PENTECOSTAL CHURCH which owns the former cinema at 25 Church Road has applied to turn the building into a theatre. The move by KICC (Kingsway International Christian Centre) could scupper any long-cherished hopes among the Crystal Palace community of turning the only leisure use building back to its former use as a much-wanted cinema. …