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Coffee van owner urges council to drop plans to take slice of his profits (www.bristol247.com)
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[–] appel@whiskers.bim.boats 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Councils all over the UK are running out of cash because central government has been paying them less and less. This is an austerity measure, in order to try to pay off government debts. (Or spend it on war like they have recently done).