A surprise eviction notice has been served to a distraught butcher who’s been working at Leeds Kirkgate Market for 43 years.
John Paul Johnston is at his wits end and feeling “disgusted” after receiving the letter from Leeds City Council, telling him to leave his market stall by September 16. The father-of-two has been working in the market since 1979 and has had his own shop J.P. Johnston’s Butchers there since 1996.
If John is made to leave in September, there will only be one butcher's shop left in the city-centre market (Bennetts Quality Butchers). Malcolm Michaels Quality Butchers announced they were leaving earlier this week due to “high rent and minimal footfall”.
