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A US restaurateur has poured £600 worth of French wine and champagne down the toilet. Anthony Tola, from New Brunswick, New Jersey, said he was angered by France's lack of support for the US position on Iraq. He has removed all French wines from the menu of his Old Bay Restaurant, replacing them with vintages from California, Oregon and Australia. He has also returned 48 bottles of French wine to his suppliers. Mr Tola said: "It was a statement. If people feel what I'm doing is wrong or overboard, they can make their own statements. "[I'm not] someone who wants...

NEW BRUNSWICK: The Old Bay Restaurant's owner lashed out at France on Friday -- flushing nearly $1,000 in French wine and champagne down a toilet to protest the country's lack of support for the United State's position on Iraq. In response, local folk singer Spook Handy is spearheading an Old Bay Boycott. "The Old Bay is for the war and is apparently willing to attack any party that disagrees," he wrote in a mass e-mail distributed yesterday. Owner Anthony Tola had no comment yesterday about the proposed boycott. Handy of Cranbury urged bands and patrons alike in his e-mail to...