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Coked Up In Suburbia

Image by chrisjohnbeckett from the Londonist Flickr pool Stop sniffing… you, in the corner of the room, buttonholing some terrified-looking soul and banging on about something random… you might think you’re projecting an image at the bleeding meeja edge of popular culture with your Bolivian …

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The Saturday Strangeness

126. The Beast Is Back! There’s no denying that the recent ‘Palace puma’ story had become a bit of a farce. Episode 123 attempted to iron out a few creases, but for every piece of inaccurate fiction corrected, another story unfolds. And so the Streatham …

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Extra, Extra

More postal chaos on the way. Buy a pigeon, we say. Two teenage girls are wanted in connection with the Trafalgar Square murder. There’s a census rehearsal in Newham today. No, we couldn’t work it out either. Perhaps they’re practising counting. In Bexley, Bromley and …

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The Saturday Strangeness

123. The Crystal Palace ‘Puma’ The huge, dinosaur models outside Crystal Palace are not the only monsters present around Crystal Palace. The press just cannot resist lapping up some stories and turning them into inaccurate legends. And so on 8th August 2009 the ‘Palace puma’ …

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The Saturday Strangeness

51. The Abbey Wood Anomaly! Something has been disturbing chickens coops and pets around Abbey Wood, Belvedere, Welling and Plumstead for a few years. Many believe it is the so-called ‘beast’ of Bexley, or it could even be the ‘beast’ of Bluewater… although these mystery …