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 Students Toby Harley, Alex Rainey, Rachel Stern, Alex Lingwood and Kiki Raigne, who are coffee shop regulars
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Storm in a coffee cup
A HIGHGATE School pupil has criticised a coffee shop’s policy towards students after he was thrown out by police on Friday.
The student, who did now wish to give his name for fear of reprisals from the school, was sitting in Café Nero in Highgate High Street with youngsters from Highgate and nearby Channing independent schools when police were called. He said: “There are two cafés in Highgate and you get thrown out. You can’t hang around in Pond Square because the residents don’t like it, and you can’t hang around in the street because you’re in the way and you get mugged.”
The 17-year-old student admitted he had been barred from the coffee shop the previous week for not buying anything. He said: “So today me and one of my friends shared our money and bought a cookie.”
Café Nero manager Aniko Modla, 34, who called police, said: “It is a problem. Groups of 10 to 15 kids come here and nobody wants to buy anything. They just want to smoke in private where their neighbours can’t see them.”
Channing School headmistress Barbara Elliott said: “It’s rather sad they’re not welcome in coffee shops. Obviously, I’d rather they went home after school but I’d rather they gathered in coffee shops than pubs.” |
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