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Residents living near a popular food court have complained of ‘continual and terrible’ smells from food outlets forcing them to close their windows all day over the summer. Locals from flats above and next to the Food District on Edgware Road claim the food court has damaged their quality of life due to the pervasive…
by Ryan Prosser
A new bookstore was found to be selling self-published copies of Adolf Hitler’s memoir with a blurb describing it as a ‘political manifesto’ and advertising that it sold 5.2 million copies by the year 1939. Aafaq bookstore, a newly opened shop on Edgware Road selling arabic translations of works by famous figures including Sigmund Freud,…
by Ryan Prosser
Restaurant workers threw chairs and tables during a visit by immigration officers last year, a council committee heard. Al Balad was fined more than £200,000 after immigration officers repeatedly found breaches on at least five separate occasions at the premises on Edgware Road near Paddington. Home Office documents show, that during one enforcement visit last…
by Ryan Prosser