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Perhaps OT but this sounds like a mystery waiting to be unravelled:
Cinema was homeless man's hideout
Police investigating a break-in at a cinema in Cheltenham have found evidence that someone had been living unnoticed behind one of the screens.
Officers discovered a bike, clothes, a mattress, a satchel, some food wrappers and some documents at the Odeon.
They could not confirm reports that some of the items pointed to the man being a Polish asylum seeker.
Spokeswoman Katy Roberts said: "We're looking at the papers to see if we can establish his identity."
The man was discovered after a burglar alarm was set off in the early hours of Friday.
'Mysterious investigation'
Ms Roberts said: "Someone had forced the wood off a boarded-up side window and smashed the glass.
"We do believe he could've been living there for a month."
A statement from Odeon Cinemas said: "[We] can confirm that a man appeared to have been temporarily residing in a disused part of the building which was formerly a backstage area, but is now no longer used by staff or customers.
"Staff were alerted to his presence on Friday 23 September, after he had attempted to enter the main body of the cinema and triggered the alarm system.
"We have reported the incident to the police and are co-operating with them in any way we can in this very mysterious investigation."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/glou ... 293172.stm