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BBC News: Buskers make protest heard
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Plans to introduce a licensing scheme in central London spark a noisy protest by buskers.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/2489361.stm
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BBC News: Drinking law shake-up unveiled
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Two senior ministers pop into a Westminster pub to launch a bill which paves the way for round-the-clock drinking.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/2479609.stm
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BBC News: Fears for children in pub reforms
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Children could end up in lap-dancing pubs and clubs under plans to reform licensing laws, the government is warned.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/2591205.stm
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BBC News: Last orders for pub hours
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Pubs could open 24-hours a day and there would be tougher laws on under-age drinking in plans to relax UK licensing laws.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/2458867.stm
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Guardian Politics: Pub revolution 'will cut trouble'
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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.
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/homeaffairs/story/0,11026,841294,00.html
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Telegraph: By next Christmas, carol singers will be criminals
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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.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2002/12/30/do3002.xml
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Telegraph: Licensing crackdown threatens live music
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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.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2002/12/24/nmusic24.xml
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Telegraph: More red tape, vicar?
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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.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2002/11/30/dl3003.xml
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Telegraph: Village halls' cash hopes dashed
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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.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/01/02/nhall02.xml
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