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Five-year-old London girl fined for lemonade stand

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Publish Date
Sun, 23 Jul 2017, 5:51PM
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Five-year-old London girl fined for lemonade stand

Author
PA,
Publish Date
Sun, 23 Jul 2017, 5:51PM

A five-year-old girl in London who hit the headlines after her homemade lemonade stand was shut down by a council has received dozens of offers to set up stalls at other events.

Andre Spicer, a business school professor, let his daughter set up a stand near their home to sell refreshments to people heading to the Lovebox music festival in Victoria Park last weekend.

But after half an hour four council officials told the pair to shut up shop and slapped Prof Spicer with a AGBP150 ($NZ261) fine as he held his sobbing daughter in his arms.

Tower Hamlets Council has since cancelled the fine and hand-delivered a note to the family's home to apologise.

The family tweeted: "We have been overwhelmed by the kind response from people across the world.

"Dozens of festivals, markets and businesses have offered us the opportunity to set up a lemonade stand.

"We hope they will extend this invitation to others who'd love to make a stand."

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