Some good news for once.

 http://business.guardian.co.uk/story/0,,1799670,00.html
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Asda pulls out

Angela Balakrishnan
Saturday June 17, 2006
The Guardian


Supermarket group Asda has pulled out of a controversial development that threatened the future of the popular Queen's Market, in east London.
Some 12,000 signatures were gathered to oppose the plan in Newham, close to West Ham's Upton Park stadium. The campaign was highlighted in a recent documentary feature film, Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price, directed by Robert Waldman, which attacked Asda's vast US parent company.

Yesterday, Friends of Queen's Market, the group which has led the opposition, was celebrating Asda's decision.


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