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Cancer charity wins McDonald's and KFC ban
Felix Allen28.08.09
McDonald's and KFC outlets have been banned from a £50million new building after a request from a cancer charity that will be its biggest tenant.
No fast food restaurants, tobacconists, pubs or bookmakers will be allowed in the Angel Building office and retail complex being built in Islington.
Cancer Research UK, which is to rent half the building, told developer Derwent London it wanted to encourage healthy lifestyles. Derwent said it agreed a broad-brush ban but denied there was a list of forbidden names.
Reader views (4)
Tom from Watford (UK)you would probably benefit from contacting Cancer Research to find out if this is indeed correct (regarding the bookmakers) instead of assuming and making decisions in a public domain that could affect other prople and the charity itself.
- Charlotte Reid, London, UK
I wonder if Cancer Research will also ban any other opposing charities from setting up shop in that building as well?
After all, they would be competing with Cancer Research wouldn't they, and that can't be allowed can it, not in Mandleson's Britain anyway!
- Peter Thurgood, London, UK
So Cancer Research wants bookies banned. What have cancer and bookies got in common, doo bookies cause cancer? This is political correctness gone mad and if charities start to tell people what to do in areas outside of the charities scope they will lose many of their donors. If a cancer charity is against things that cause cancer, that is understandable and agreeable but I will no longer donate to a charity that dictates what I should and should not do.
- Tom, Watford (UK)
What a good idea. Perhaps fast food outlets can be banned from other places as well.
- Judith, KIng's Lynn, Norfolk, UK
