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A long-running battle between family-run cafes and the chains | Letters thumbnail

A long-running battle between family-run cafes and the chains | Letters

January 16, 2026

I can’t help being disappointed by the current controversy over the Hampstead Heath cafes, as highlighted by Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett (I’m sick of avocado toast – I just want to keep my local, untrendy cafe, 12 January), as it’s all happened before. In 2016, as chair of the Hampstead Heath management committee, I voted against […]

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