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Published: 9 November 2007

Poor idea

I WAS shocked to read that Westminster Council is planning to ban the soup runs that feed the people of London. Every night there are 250 to 300 people rough-sleeping in our city.
To criminalise the giving out of free food to those who need it most sounds like something that would happen overseas. When will people wake up to the fact that poverty and homelessness are real issues, not to be swept under the carpet or Asbo’d away?
Danny Scott
Caledonian Road, N7

Send your letters to: The Letters Editor, West End Extra, 40 Camden Road, London, NW1 9DR or email to letters@westendextra.co.uk. The deadline for letters is midday Wednesday. The editor regrets that anonymous letters cannot be published, although names and addresses can be withheld. Please include a full name, postal address and telephone number.
Letters may be edited for reasons of space.

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