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Article: Top food writer backs protest against plans for new Tesco

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September 11, 2006
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A LEADING food writer is championing a campaign by residents and shopkeepers in Craiglockhart over plans to build a new Tesco Metro store in the area.

Joanna Blythman, author of Shopped: The Shocking Power of British Supermarkets, is leading the fight against a plans to convert a former Meggetland petrol station in Colinton Road into new shops.

Originally it was planned to create four small shops on the site but residents have been dismayed that, following interest from the retail giant, the plans now involve room for just one shop, with a 3500-square foot Tesco Metro taking up the rest of the space.

And residents have argued that the development will "kill off" existing shops at the ...

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