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St Albans & Harpenden Review [UK]
1 December 2008
Councillors' outrage at "unpatriotic " coffee chain
By Emma Clark
AN email which has aroused outrage across St Albans against global coffee company Starbucks has been refuted by the chain.
Many town, district and county councillors across St Albans were shocked today to receive an email alleging the company had refused to send its coffee abroad to army camps because it did not support military action in Iraq, or the soldiers fighting there.
But the chain insists the email, sent out by an American Marine sergeant, has been circulating since 2004 and is totally untrue. [...]
St Albans & Harpenden Review [UK]
1 December 2008
Councillors' outrage at "unpatriotic " coffee chain
By Emma Clark
AN email which has aroused outrage across St Albans against global coffee company Starbucks has been refuted by the chain.
Many town, district and county councillors across St Albans were shocked today to receive an email alleging the company had refused to send its coffee abroad to army camps because it did not support military action in Iraq, or the soldiers fighting there.
But the chain insists the email, sent out by an American Marine sergeant, has been circulating since 2004 and is totally untrue. [...]
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