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Fair faces chop after 600 years

A fair that has entertained locals for more than 600 years is facing the chop - because of the credit crunch. Pinner Fair has featured on the area's social calendar since 1336.

The Showmen's Guild has, by tradition, the right to run the fair on the first Wednesday after May Bank Holiday.

But this year it has asked locals to help raise £45,000 pounds needed to stage the event. Last year Harrow council helped fund the fair.

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