Footballer Joe Cole

HE is the footballer who is gearing up for a dream treble – a Premiership winners’ medal, Champions League glory and… a new minicab office in Camden Town.
Chelsea and England star Joe Cole was this week granted permission to run a taxi firm from a building in Arlington Road.
The New Journal exclusively revealed last month how the former Haverstock School pupil had asked Camden Council for permission to run Meter Cars from the former Chinese Cultural Centre.
He bought the empty building for £700,000 earlier this year.
Environment director Peter Bishop has since confirmed that the council will allow the shop to be turned into minicab offices.
But planning officials have warned the 23-year-old footballer that the company will not be allowed to accept customers who walk in from the street – a service provided at the firm’s current control room in Kentish Town Road, Kentish Town.
A council letter said: “No casual or walk-in custom shall be solicited or provided service from the premises.”
The letter warns that enforcement action could be taken if Meter Cars uses the Camden Town building as a waiting room.