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Food Safety: "As sure as eggs is eggs" You must be in "no doubt" of your food supply chain.
Food Businesses and in particular Pubs, Restaurants and Hotels must make sure they have robust supplier management systems after the recent Fipronil egg scandal. The Food standards agency (FSA) initial calculation rose from around 23,000 to 700,0...
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Pubs shut after antisocial group comes to town
You may have read weekend reports in the national press regarding incidents in Cromer, North Norfolk. An antisocial group had come to the seaside town for the weekend and by Saturday Night all the pubs in the area decided to go into l...
Gambling on your house!
From time to time we get enquiries from people wanting to sell their house and having difficulties in doing so even in these buoyant times in the current housing market. One option that some people consider and ask our advice about are so-called ...
Barnet Council proposing to exclude “unhealthy” pubs and restaurants from business rates support
Barnet Council’s consultation on distribution of a rate relief funded by central government grant (£2.3m over four years) is due to close on the 29th August 2017 with a decision due in October 2017. The council have proposed a ...
Nuisance complaints - Parliamentary Briefing
We occasionally alert to Parliamentary Library Briefing Papers of possible passing interest to our sector. This House of Commons Library briefing paper provides an overview of options for dealing with nuisance together with Government guidance an...
Hartlepool say no again to EMRO
Following a Licensing Committee meeting on the 26 July 2017 the recommendation that the Licensing Committee should not adopt an EMRO was approved and be put to the full Council. This arises from a request from Safer Hartlepool Partnership to revi...
Hackney Council to introduce Late Night Levy in November
Hackney Council have decided to introduce a Late Night Levy following a period of consultation. The Levy will begin in November and comes despite the recent decisions by other Councils not to introduce one. As we have reported previo...