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Is New Addington Britain’s bleakest estate?
There’s blood spattered on the pavement but locals in New Addington, an estate in Croydon, southeast London, seem curiously unbothered. ‘I’ve had no problems,’ Eli, who lives around the corner from the latest stabbing, tells me. Eli’s house is close to Rowdown Field, where last March a human head and other dismembered body parts were

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