Revealed: The Great Islington Sell-Off ; Another Swathe of London's Small Shop Heritage Is at Risk As a Council Puts Hundreds of Freeholds Up for Grabs

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ANDREW Cornwell, the Liberal Democrat councillor for Tufnell Park, is not j ust

any old elected representat ive. As his personal website, complete with a picture of him in his Lycra top, makes clear, he is "The Cycling Councillor", a oneman beacon of transport virtue in a nasty, gas-guzzling world. As national vice-chair of the Green Liberal Democrats, Mr Cornwell campaigns against what he calls "the supermarket juggernaut that is cutting a swathe through the country".

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Revealed: The Great Islington Sell-Off ; Another Swathe of London's Small Shop Heritage Is at Risk As a Council Puts Hundreds of Freeholds Up for Grabs

And at a planning meeting about his local shopping centre of Archway, only last September, his website boasted that Mr Cornwell and the other Islington Lib Dems "put a real barrier in the way of another giant supermarket".

As he added: "If there's one thing that nearly all residents seem to agree on, it's that we don't want another Tesco or Asda strangling the local economy as they have done across the land." Admirable sentiments, to be sure. So wh...

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