Girl, five, bursts into tears when council officers close down her 50p-a-time lemonade stand and fine her £150 for trading without a permit

‘Overzealous council officials have come under fire after a five-year-old girl was given a £150 fine for setting up a homemade lemonade stall close to her home.
The young girl burst into tears and told her father ‘I’ve done a bad thing’ after enforcement officers read her a legal letter and issued the fine.
Stunned father Andre Spicer said his daughter had set up the stall in Mile End, east London, while thousands of music fans were on their way to the Lovebox Festival at the weekend.
Tower Hamlets Council has since promised to cancel the fine, issued for trading without a permit, and apologised for the debacle.
Mr Spicer, a professor at City University, told the Evening Standard: ‘It’s not like she was trying to make a massive profit, this is just a five-year-old kid trying to sell lemonade.’
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