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SWIM BATH BACKLASH
PRESSURE was last night (Wednesday) growing on the Town Hall to come clean over its plans for the historic Prince of Wales swimming baths as campaigners geared up to fight any closure plan.
Anxious users inundated the New Journal with letters and phone calls this week after council chiefs refused to categorically rule out closure. Author Hunter Davies and Fiona Millar, the former Number 10 press aide and partner of Tony Blair’s former spin chief Alastair Campbell, added their voices to the growing concern.
Ms Millar, a governor of Gospel Oak school, who took the government to task two years ago over school funding cuts, warned that pupils would lose out if the baths, opened in 1901, closed.
 
SABOTAGE CAMPAIGN
A MYSTERY ‘dirty tricks’ campaign playing on parents’ fears for children’s health is dogging the establishment of a controversial new Holloway city academy.
Professionally designed leaflets and posters warned parents to keep their children away from the nursery next to St Mary Magdalene Primary School, Liverpool Road, in case they suffer breathing problems from dust during demolition.
However, contractors who will begin bulldozing the school on Monday, denied they had put out the material.
Campaigners both for and against the academy scheme this week soundly denounced the tactics as likely to cause unnecessary alarm.
 
‘GET OUT OF OUR SQUARE’
A LAST-minute deal saved a major Islamic celebration in Marble Arch last night (Thursday) – enabling film crews from around the world to cover a visit by the Archbishop of Canterbury which was hours away from cancellation.
Dr Rowan Williams was visiting the Ramadan Marquee but today (Friday) it faces closure unless organisers can stump up the £46,000 it owes to its marquee supplier.
Westminster’s first official Ramadan Marquee only opened last Wednesday and is supposed to run for another three weeks.
But marquee hire company, De Bou, has told organisers Master Events and the Egyptian Association UK that the tent housing the celebrations will be taken back if they do not pay their outstanding bill.




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POST-war, early 1950s Britain was still experiencing food rationing and was a disillusioning place for English gourmands. The war had destroyed the restaurant trade and, with few exceptions, post-war eateries made the worst of a bad situation.
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