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Sale and consumption of alcohol to be banned on trains?
The Rail Safety and Standards Board, a group which advises the UK's rail operators through research, the understanding of risk and analysis, has produced a report headed "Platform train interface strategy - January 2015". One of the areas covered...
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Camden Council launches late night levy consultation
Camden Council has launched a consultation on introducing a Late Night Levy for premises selling alcohol between 00.00 and 06.00. The only proposed exemption is for premises open between the above hours on New Year’s Day (i.e. New Year&rsqu...
Bingo in Pubs: the Story So Far
For those of you who may not have seen it, partner Tim Shield had an opinion piece published by Propel today by way of a commentary on the current position of Greene Kings attempts to obtain authorisation to operate higher stakes and prizes Bingo ...
Gambling - Conditions added to Gambling Premises Licences following second underage test purchase failure
In 2014 East Lindsey District Council, Brighton and Hove City Council and Hastings Borough Council working together with the Gambling Commission, reviewed a number of gambling premises licences where independent gambling operators had failed to pr...
Personal licences renewal arrangements - latest.
It is rather like watching paint dry! As previously reported, the relevant House of Lords Committee sat on 3 and 5 February and most recently on 11 February, but did not apparently consider or comment on the proposals within the Deregulatio...
Breathalysers in pubs and clubs - a cause for concern?
Increasingly a ‘hot' topic for discussion with news of planned introduction of breathalysers in Birmingham (where ‘more than 40 pubs have signed up'), following trials or proposals in Croydon, Norwich, Durham and Plymouth - and elsewhe...
Gambling - LCCP Social Responsibility - Gambling Commission response following consultation.
The Gambling commission has issued two documents in relation to its Social Responsibility Review. The process started last summer and the consultation closed on 31st October last year. There have been 141 responses to the initial consultation. Th...