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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.
A reporter was passed two of the hoax leaflets, purporting to be from two recognised contractors, which had been sent to a local Rosedale Early Years Centre close to the dem-olition site. The notice said:” We advise parents who are concerned about the effects of dust and other effects on children with asthma to keep their children away when work begins.”
The leaflet left a contact number and name for the academy’s sponsors the Diocese of London. The leaflet also spelt the contact’s name differently each time.

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