IT’S a Friday afternoon and Martin Kerley is standing outside The Cock Tavern pub in Somers Town.
Half a mile away, Black Cabs snake through central London towards Kings Cross and the pavements on Euston Road double as pedestrian highways for commuters hurrying to St Pancras station.
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