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fight outside Stamford Hill Youth Club (not where Anselm Samuel worked) in early November 1981.

An argument developed about the parking of cars. Anseim Samuel was assaulted, threatened and intimidated, and he defended himself. The young man then went on to assault a passenger in Anselm's car. This passenger had to attend hospital and was off work for a week as a result of the incident.

Stamford Hill Youth Club is a • club with 90% black membership and 86% black staff. The head of the centre's staff is being used by the ILEA officers to keep black youths in check.

The chairman of the Management Committee is Inspector Heame of City police station who uses the club as a police informer base and for getting information from certain youths and staff.

The question that needs to be asked is, with the eroding relationship between the black community and the police, why is this police officer chairman of the club's committee?

Did ILEA know that Tony Roberts, who attacked me and my passenger, had been suspended from school at least ten times for attacking teachers?

Do they know he has a court record including violence?"

Contact: A. Samuel, c/o O Noblemum, 38 Cranwick Road, London N16. FOLLOWING on from their cut-price sale of Martello Court (known locally as "terror tower"), the highest multi-storey in Edinburgh, the Tory-controlled Edinburgh District Council is now planning to "homestead" 112 other council Ilats.

This is a pilot scheme, and if it is successful the same operation will be attempted elsewhere in Edinburgh.

"Homesteading" means the sale at a cut price of the 112 flats in two rundown council housing schemes, Bingham (40 flats) and Broomhouse (72) at £5.000 each.

In Bingham, of the 40, 32 are still occupied. According to a • District Council spokesperson, "sitting tenants will be offered other suitable