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Victory for local campaigners as Holbeck red-light zone is set to close
As locals celebrate a win for women’s safety as a ‘managed’ prostitution area is shut down, ANNA FISHER wonders how Labour could so easily forget the working-class and women’s movements’ history of opposition to the sex trade
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ON Tuesday, Leeds City Council (LCC) announced that it is to scrap the so-called decriminalised red-light “managed approach” zone in Holbeck, which for more than six years has been a magnet for predatory men from all over the north.
This is a victory for local campaigners who have fought tenaciously for years to get this misguided scheme closed down.
I got to know Paula and Claire, two campaigners from local group, Save Our Eyes.
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