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OPINION - Celebrity chef with a London restaurant? Watch out, the squatters are coming for you

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Staffing woes. No-shows. Giles Coren. Thought restaurants had it hard already? You ain’t seen nothin’ yet. Chefs’ newest nemesis are squatters. From the middle of last week, Gordon Ramsay’s Camden pub, the York & Albany, was occupied by a group of them, who took to Instagram with plans to open a community café “for victims of gentrification”. A soup kitchen may have been in the works. Ramsay put paid to all that on Tuesday, obtaining a claim for possession.

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