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Ten o'clock on a Saturday morning, and smiling assistants are offering morsels of fine farmhouse cheeses outside Neal's Yard Dairy on the edge of London's Borough Market. Queues are forming at the Monmouth Coffee Company a few doors down, and over the way the Ginger Pig butchers have laid out a tray of sausage rolls fresh from the oven.

Saturday morning on Maltby Street, just off Tower Bridge Road: shoppers with straw baskets are picking over trays of mushrooms, berries and heritage tomatoes. Then a porter strides past, wearing a reflective vest emblazoned with 'Borough Market'. 'Oi!' shouts an outraged colleague. 'Take that crap off! What are you doing wearing it in here?

Borough Market is under threat of extinction, according to travel experts who have placed it alongside more exotic locations on a global list of "endangered destinations". Wanderlust magazine says the market suffers from the millions of tourists it attracts each year and ongoing railway development is eroding its heritage.

Visit Borough Market on a Saturday morning and it seems obvious why many consider it to be London's best food market. Vast crowds surge around stalls filled with unpasteurised cheese, sourdough breads and perfectly aged beef, while takeaway stands keep visitors nourished with posh venison burgers and paella served from wide open pans.

London's 'foodie heaven' and symbol of culinary revolution has been engulfed by row over commercialism and quality Organic raw milk and walnut levain bread, figs from Croatia, chilli sauce from Grenada and foie gras black truffle parfait at £7 for 100 grams: such delicacies are sampled every Saturday by the shoppers and tourists who descend on Borough Market in their thousands.

Along with other traders, I'm banned from Borough. Its changing values augur badly for London's once-great food market In recent years Borough Market in Southwark, London, has not always been attracting the right sort of press. Wrangles over leaseholds, rent increases and a climate of fear among traders have all had an airing in the national media.

Mention the words 'Borough Market' and what comes to mind? Fresh food sold by knowledgeable and enthusiastic producers? Overpriced hot food? Crowds of tourists taking photos? People munching burgers? As custodians of the market's name and reputation, the trustees face a number of unenviable challenges, including dealing with the aftermath of the Thameslink building works and shaping the long-term identity of the market as both a retail and wholesale centre.

Tensions are boiling over at one of the country's most celebrated food markets after the banishment of some traders, prompting calls for a management change. The eviction of seven traders from London's Borough Market last month has unsettled many of the remaining 120 stallholders who sell fare such as British cheeses and meat, Kalamata olives, Italian mozzarella and thinly sliced Iberico ham.

Something is rotten at London's Borough Market - and it's not the organic goats' milk ice cream. Several traders at the landmark gourmet market and crucible of Britain's burgeoning foodie culture have been evicted from their pitches. Their crime? Trading simultaneously at nearby Maltby Street in Bermondsey, a fledgling foodie destination which is seen as a rival.

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