Well, carol singing in the pubs may not be the tradition down in Dorset, but the authorities up in the Sheffield and Derbyshire where it is are operating under the same law as the ones in Dorset. And they don't seem to see any problem.

I know that in practice the authorities which have stuck their necks out like the Weymouth lot are fairly few. But it seems that there are even fewer who have gone the other way and actually formally stated that their interpretation of the law is that these kind of activities do not count as entertainments subject to the PEL rules.

If anyone has come across any that have done that, it would be useful to know. Don't we have any councillors among Mudcatters? Or people working in the relevant parts of councils?