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Thursday, 29 July 2010 00:00 |
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Leed's Kirkgate Market is experiencing a boost as a new bazaar takes over a corner of the market every Wednesday. The colourful bazaar offers Asian fashion, delicious Asian food, fabrics and jewellery and is well worth a visit. There's a huge variety of goods on sale at the market with over 800 stalls offering exotic foods, clothing, unusual gifts and just about everything you could wish for!
The historic market has also seen other new stalls as part of a ongoing initiative to promote the market, with stall prices being reduced to attract new traders, reduced parking fees plus investment in the market.
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We think Mary Tissington's amazing. She's just celebrated her 80th birthday and still works on her the family market stall, often getting up at 3.30am and working through to teatime. Quite rightly, she decided that after 60 years on the stall she ought to be taking things a bit easy now so she decided to... take Fridays off! - just for a few weeks mind until the weather improves at least.
More counterfeit goods worth a massive £1m have been seized, this time at Wembley Market. Stalls were targeted by Tokyngton Safer Neighbourhoods Team in a joint operation with Brent and Harrow trading standards. Disreputable traders were having a disastrous impact on honest market stallholders at the market.