Job offers flood in for lemonade girl

A five-year-old girl who hit the headlines after her homemade lemonade stand was shut down by the council has received dozens of offers to set up stalls at other events.

Andre Spicer, a business school professor, let his daughter set up a stand near their home to sell refreshments to people heading to the Lovebox music festival in Victoria Park, east London, last weekend.

But after half an hour, four council officials told the pair to shut up shop and issued Mr Spicer with a £150 fine.

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”.

Tower Hamlets Council has since cancelled the fine and hand-delivered a note to the family’s home to apologise.

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.”

Among those extending the offers was London’s Borough Market which 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.”

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.”