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Thread #86679   Message #1758027
Posted By: The Shambles
12-Jun-06 - 11:06 AM
Thread Name: Affected by The Licensing Act 2003
Subject: RE: Affected by The Licensing Act 2003
The following from Hamish Birchall.

Live music, criminality and the entertainment licence exemption for broadcast entertainment:

'... A mass brawl involving around 200 people broke out at Canary Wharf in London where up to 6,000 people were watching an outdoor screening of England's 1-0 defeat of Paraguay. At about the same time, trouble broke out in front of a big screen in Liverpool city centre with fans hurling missiles.'
['In Germany, England fans enjoy the party. At home, there's a mass brawl', Andrew Culf, The Guardian, p9, Monday 12 June 2006]

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'Live music always acts as a magnet in whatever community it is being played. It brings people from outside that community and having no connection locally behave in a way that is inappropriate, criminal and disorderly'.
[Letter from Association of Chief Police Officers' president Chris Fox to Tessa Jowell, 02 July 2003, opposing an entertainment licence exemption for live music in small venues, a position that was supported by the government during Parliamentary debate.]

ENDS
http://football.guardian.co.uk/worldcup2006/story/0,,1795474,00.html

AND

http://media.guardian.co.uk/site/story/0,,1795853,00.html