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Now Amy hits out at 'crack street'
SINGING sensation Amy Winehouse has hit out at Camden Town’s most notorious drug-dealing street.
Ms Winehouse said: “You’re interviewing me on crack street. It’s disgusting. Everyone who walks past is staggering.”
Expressing puzzlement at the regeneration works, she called the money being spent to improve the area “a joke”. The £1.5 million from the government Liveability Fund, is being ploughed into installing two CCTV cameras, improved lighting, new market stalls and pavements, and planting trees.
Ms Winehouse is the latest high-profile figure to criticise Inverness Street after broadcaster and author Jonathan Miller, who lives in adjacent Gloucester Crescent, called for “zero tolerance” on the drug dealers in the area in 2004. He said: “Going down Inverness Street is running a gauntlet of drug dealers.”
Meanwhile diners are abandoning Camden Town because they are intimidated by drug dealers, a prominent businessman has claimed.
Roy Walker, the proprietor of Walker’s Quay Waterside restaurant by Regent’s Canal said: “I don’t open the restaurant in the evenings anymore because that’s when the dealing is at its worst.”
Sergeant Roger Smith of the Safer Neighbourhood Team admitted police were “going to have to be a lot smarter” to get on top of the drugs racket in Camden Town.
A council press officer said: “There’s a lot being done there. Don’t judge this before you see the effects.”
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