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Extra cash from late night levy could fund Hoxton Square ‘safe space’

Trade association calls for levy’s repeal as council pledges ‘every single penny’ will be spent on local policing

Extra cash from late night levy could fund Hoxton Square ‘safe space’
Hoxton Square. Photograph: Stephen Mckay.
Ed Sheridan, Local Democracy Reporter
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