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| Dozens of job offers for girl fined for lemonade stand | Dozens of job offers for girl fined for lemonade stand |
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| A five-year-old girl who was fined £150 by a council for selling 50p cups of lemonade has received dozens of offers to set up stalls at other events. | A five-year-old girl who was fined £150 by a council for selling 50p cups of lemonade has received dozens of offers to set up stalls at other events. |
| Andre Spicer, a business school professor, had let his daughter set up a stall to sell refreshments outside Lovebox Festival, east London. | Andre Spicer, a business school professor, had let his daughter set up a stall to sell refreshments outside Lovebox Festival, east London. |
| However, four council officials fined the pair for trading without a licence. | |
| Tower Hamlets Council has since apologised for issuing the fixed penalty notice and cancelled the fine. | |
| 'Kind response' | |
| Mr Spicer said his daughter had received offers to set up lemonade stands at festivals and at Borough Market in Southwark. | |
| The family tweeted: "We have been overwhelmed by the kind response from people across the world. | |
| "Dozens of festivals, markets and businesses have offered us the opportunity to set up a lemonade stand. | |
| "We hope they will extend this invitation to others who'd love to make a stand." | |
| Borough Market tweeted the girl's father: "In all seriousness, would your daughter like to sell some lemonade at Borough Market? We'd love to make that happen for her." | |
| LeeFest: Neverland has also invited the pair to sell lemonade at its August festival in Kent. | |
| Mr Spicer told how his daughter had "burst into tears" after enforcement officers "began reading from a big script explaining that she did not have a trading licence". | Mr Spicer told how his daughter had "burst into tears" after enforcement officers "began reading from a big script explaining that she did not have a trading licence". |
| He said: "My daughter clung to me screaming 'Daddy, Daddy, I've done a bad thing.' She's five. | |
| "We were then issued a fine of £150. We packed up and walked home." | "We were then issued a fine of £150. We packed up and walked home." |
| A council spokesman said: "We are very sorry that this has happened. We expect our enforcement officers to show common sense and to use their powers sensibly. | A council spokesman said: "We are very sorry that this has happened. We expect our enforcement officers to show common sense and to use their powers sensibly. |
| "This clearly did not happen." | "This clearly did not happen." |