Dear Jac: One retailer has Islington Council in his sights over the way it runs its business.

Regular correspondent and activist Hurendra Bhatt discovered more or less by accident that Islington Council had given planning permission for a six-storey building to be erected over a new supermarket (heavily rumoured to be Tesco) less than 100 yards away from his business, Universal Newsagents. He has enlisted the help ...