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From: Mark Jones Date: Oct 23 18:55 UTC Short link

Today City Hall hosted the London Markets Symposium - a must for all who care
about London's street and wholesale markets. The event was packed with
important speakers each eager to enthuse about markets and to disgust their
future. Sadly, Newham was one of the few boroughs that was not listed as
sending a representative, then again neither did St Modwen Properties. The
issue of Queen's Market was certainly raised and was quite a talking point
amongst borough and market representatives present, all the more so as the
market at Upton Park is the only market in the whole of London to have been
chosen as a finalist for the Best Food Markets category of the BBC Radio Four
Food & Farming Awards 2008. A number of those attending the symposium were
interested in what Andrew Gilligan had written in the Evening Standard today;
"In Newham, the elected mayor, Robin Wales, is still fighting to turn the
successful Queens Market into a developer-sponsored corporate shell.". Then
again, by all accounts journalists and others are having a difficult time
getting hold of councillors and council officials who are prepared to even
mention the name Queen's Market - it would appear that they may well have been
ordered to try and sit it out. The deafing silence seems to have backfired as
more and more food specialists and journalists are making their way to Newham
to ask questions that should have been asked long ago.

Poor St Modwen are having a torrid time. It would appear that others too have
tired of their sophistry and spin:

http://www.coombeswood.info

This story just keeps running. Maybe searchlights are needed to find our Newham
councillors.
    

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