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• BBC News: Buskers make protest heard

  http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/2489361.stm
  Plans to introduce a licensing scheme in central London spark a noisy protest by buskers.

• BBC News: Drinking law shake-up unveiled

  http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/2479609.stm
  Two senior ministers pop into a Westminster pub to launch a bill which paves the way for round-the-clock drinking.

• BBC News: Fears for children in pub reforms

  http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/2591205.stm
  Children could end up in lap-dancing pubs and clubs under plans to reform licensing laws, the government is warned.

• BBC News: Last orders for pub hours

  http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/2458867.stm
  Pubs could open 24-hours a day and there would be tougher laws on under-age drinking in plans to relax UK licensing laws.

• Guardian Politics: Alcoholic Britain should not be offered another drink

  http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2003/jan/02/immigrationpolicy.drugsandalcohol
  Martin Kettle. Why the licensing bill will increase the problem it is supposed to control.

• Guardian Politics: Pub revolution 'will cut trouble'

  http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2002/nov/16/drugsandalcohol.artsnews
  Anne Perkins, political correspondent. Round-the-clock licences will enrich lives, say ministers, but musicians fear reforms will jeopardise jazz and folk in hundreds of clubs.

• Guardian Politics: Save the nation's music

  http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2002/dec/11/immigrationpolicy.religion
  Leader. Churches should not be licensed.

• Telegraph: By next Christmas, carol singers will be criminals

  http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/personal-view/3585794/By-next-Christmas-carol-singers-will-be-criminals.html
  Billy Bragg. The mummers, the Nativity play, the panto, the carol concert all provide opportunities for newcomers to meet their fellow villagers and appreciate the age-old values of the local community. Yet all these activities are under threat from the licensing Bill that is currently passing through Parliament.

• Telegraph: Licensing crackdown threatens live music

  http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1416959/Licensing-crackdown-threatens-live-music.html
  David Millward. The Musicians' Union claims the Licensing Bill could turn buskers into criminals, restrict carol singers and bell ringers, and scrap the "two in a bar" rule.

• Telegraph: More red tape, vicar?

  http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/telegraph-view/3584663/More-red-tape-vicar.html
  Leader. Perhaps Tessa Jowell, the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, could tell us when was the last time that the audience at a performance of Bach's Matthew Passion caused crime, disorder, public nuisance or threatened the welfare of children.

• Telegraph: Village halls' cash hopes dashed

  http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1417650/Village-halls-cash-hopes-dashed.html
  David Sapsted. Village hall committees must pay extra costs to comply with legislation to make facilities available to the disabled and are also facing a new headache with the Licensing Bill which would end the halls' traditional exemption from fees for a public entertainment licence and reduce the number of occasional liquor licences they can apply for, from the current 12 to five a year.

 

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