Of the total of 340 local Premise Licenses - 174 do not have any form of entertainment permission.

Of the 166 that do have permission for 'live entertainment' - only 30 make any reference to any permission for indoor sports.

So does that mean that regular social indoor games - like darts etc are illegal in the remaining 310 premises?

My council is trying to maintain that regular social music making is illegal without entertainment permission when both this and regular social indoor games can now equally be considered under the words of Schedule 1 of the Act - as Regulated Entertainment - when they are for the purpose of entertaining an audience.

The New Star has no entertainment permission and according to my council's officers - this seems to prevent the session from re-starting even when it would take place with no one present but its participants.

But the New Star also has no permission for any social indoor games either and there is no question of any regular social indoor games taking place in its skittle alley requiring entertainment permission or of being prevented for the lack of this permission by these same officers.

Surely if one of these is licensable - they both are and if one is not licensable - then neither of them are licensable?

Is this descrimination - by my council's officers against one form of Regulated Entertainment - legal?

Is it the same where you live?