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Greater London Authority encourages hospitality venues to stay open for Queen's funeral
London is expecting huge crowds looking to pay their respects to the Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, the London authorities are encouraging hospitality businesses to remain open. In recent days, hospitality businesses (such as Centre Parcs) have...
Licensing Hours over the Extra Bank Holiday to mark the Queens Funeral
Many licencees have the benefit on a nonstandard timings relating to Bank Holidays, which extends the hours of operation. These are used for our traditional Bank Holiday dates of Easter, early and late May, August and around Christmas and New Year...
Nottingham Revokes Late Night Levy
We have previously reported that Nottingham City Council was reviewing whether to retain its Late Night Levy which was introduced in 2014. Earlier this year the Licensing Committee for Nottingham City Council recommended to the full Council that t...
Propel Legal Briefing - Trust in Truss to fix hospitality’s cost-of-living and energy concerns by Chris Grunert
First appearing in Propel Hospitality Legal Briefing on Wednesday 14th September 2022 Trust in Truss to fix hospitality’s cost-of-living and energy concerns by Chris Grunert Within the space of a few days, the nation said farewell to Her M...
National Mourning Guidance
Following the sad passing of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II the Government has published national guidance for the Country in this period of mourning. The guidance does not dictate specific behaviour but in respect of businesses (includ...
Food and drink Sector Council - New Chair
This week Tim Smith was appointed as Chair to the Food and drink sector council, replacing former co-Chairs Ian Wright and Terry Jones. The Food and Drink Council is a body which sits with government and has appointed to it as a co-chair the Food...
SIA Investigators out in force across the country
It is being reported that SIA investigations officers are currently carrying out inspections across the UK. As Licensed premises operators will no doubt be aware to work as a “door supervisor” an individual needs to be registered and ...
A-Level Results Day
Tomorrow marks the end of school for a lot of people, as its A-level results day. On the 25th it's also GCSE results day. Clearly, the majority of those celebrating will be 16 – 18 years old and operators need to be extra vigilant at this t...