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Saskia Kemsley

OPINION - Why I'm fleeing my Ladbroke Grove flat this Carnival

It’s the Thursday evening before bank holiday weekend when the ritual begins: houses are boarded up, neighbours compare tactics and plywood reappears in familiar places.

“What can you do?” they sigh. “We’re lucky to live here,” they smile. A few doors down, boards with last year’s graffiti re-emerge, layered with posters promoting mixtapes.

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