Departure

One of our Croydon reporters, Lizzie Smith, is leaving today to start work on the nationals.

Lizzie's been a great addition to the team since joining us from somewhere weird in Wales.

But every reporter with ambitions to work on the national press has to make the leap at some point, and I'm sure Lizzie will make a big success of it.

It does mean, though, that I've now got to embark on another torturous recruitment process, which I am not looking forward to at all.

Another thing I'm not looking foward to is regularly seeing Palace reporter Sami Mokbel's blog getting more hits than mine. But it already is, and it's only been up for an hour. Bah.