A five-year-old girl selling lemonade to revellers heading to a [?] in east London had her stand [?] down by council officers who slapped her and her father with a £150 .

Andre Spicer said his daughter burst into [?] and told him “I’ve done a very bad thing” after enforcement officers read out a lengthy legal letter before issuing the notice.

The five-year-old and Mr Spicer, a professor at City University, were given the fine for "trading [?] a permit" after they set [?] the stall near their home in Mile End.

After it was [?] by the Evening Standard, Tower Hamlets Council promised to cancel the fine [?] and said it would [?] the family to [?].

A spokesman for the council said it expected its enforcement officers "to show common [?]" when using their powers.

Furious Mr Spicer branded the enforcements officers' decision an “over-zealous way of applying the rules,” after the pair set out to refresh festival goers heading to Lovebox in Victoria Park on Saturday.

He said: “It’s not like she was trying to make a massive [?]! This is just a five-year-old [?] trying to sell lemonade.