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We must use these shops or risk seeing them close
• WHILE highly supportive of Helen Cagnoni’s work locally, I feel her memory is highly selective regarding Exmouth Market (Going upmarket, July 27).
Fourteen years ago one or two dubious food stalls remained left among a profusion of boarded-up shops. Whatever happened to the butchers and probably one of the best off-licences in London, plus all the other shops? Answer: the landlord upped the rents. The influx of canny, first-time buyers and investors started the resurgence of the market and surrounding area.
This southern area of the borough started to raise much-needed funds for our council and in turn started to raise the living standards of the poorer section of the community. There is a large “bottom-end” supermarket chain and the only shop that will probably change hands in the near future will be the video rental shop.
Given the greed of the council and landlords, I am 100 per cent behind the shopkeepers for their tenacity and entrepreneurial endeavours in trying to service the community and survive.
It is high time residents recognised that unless they support these smaller businesses they will lose their services altogether.
GEORGE PARISH
Merlin Street, WC1
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