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I found this bizarre film on the BFI site. It says it's in Croydon, but I think it's New Addington. Anyone recognise it?

Watch Inter-action in Croydon online

They're coming for your children! Three moon men, a cosmonaut and a mysterious professor march through the sparse streets of a new Croydon housing estate. But don't panic, this is a friendly invasion. The performance was designed to parachute a taste of participatory theatre into areas of new-build housing that were often sorely lacking in their own neighbourhood cultural facilities.
I can't seem to watch it on my PC but I had a look on my phone. There's not much to go on but some of the houses and the view across the valley (at a couple of points) look a bit like Forestdale to me. I may be totally wrong though!
 
If you (and/or your daughter) are a fan of Captain Sensible, you should have been at the Sensible Garden in South Norwood. He not only unveiled it when it was opened a couple of years ago, but returned last week to unveil a new bench. It was named after him.

Have you not heard about it?

Sensible Garden

#FindRobbie: Captain Sensible unveils second bench

My friend wanted to see this so we took a picnic. Perfect weather for a picnic in Croydon! :-p
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Yeah, and then he's appointed as a key aide. Chief of staff or something? I assume he's replacing one of those people who resigned.
 
On 24 January 2017 a 36 year-old man was arrested on suspicion of the murder of Akeem Moore. The following day Benjamin Paul Wallace, of Croydon, was charged with murder, attempted murder of a 25 year-old man, perverting the course of justice and possession of a shotgun with intent to endanger life.

Wallace is due to stand trial at the Old Bailey on 17 July 2017.

Wallace was due to stand trial at the Old Bailey on 17 July 2017 but the Crown Prosecution Service offered no evidence during a short hearing on 12 July 2017 and he was formally found not guilty.

The court heard a key witness, Wallace's former partner, Florence Roche, had retracted her statement claiming that Wallace had confessed to his involvement in the murder and asked her to wash his tracksuit because 'there was a boy's brains on it'.

Prosecutor Duncan Atkinson also said that while CCTV and phone evidence placed Wallace “in the vicinity” of Eastney Road at the time of the killing, but there were other suspects who could not be eliminated.


He added: “The Crown has concluded that that combination of factors means there is no longer a realistic prospect of conviction.'

Prosecutors had claimed that Wallace attacked Mr Moore and the other man after they “slighted” him during a violent altercation three days earlier.
Mr Moore’s aunt Yvette Hinchley, 51, told a regional newspaper “We as a family are devastated and we don’t know what to do now. We are desperate to find the killer and get him behind bars.

“Akeem’s children are still very young. They don’t understand what happened and keep asking questions about him.

“They think their father is playing football up in heaven and all they want to do is go and play with him up there too.
“We need to get answers for them.”

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The incident room at Sutton can be contacted on 020 8721 4205. To remain anonymous, call Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111.
 
At least I was,t mentioned as a reason not to come to Croydon!
Transport links are great.
captain sensible was a local.
croydon had it's own windmill.
there are so many more things.....
 
Keep forgetting to post this, the mighty street cocktails return with Kevin Rowland on the decks for some free Warhol related shenanigans. Tonight!

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