This today from my MP. He is referring to the New Star (not the Blue Bell).

I have spoken several times on this with Tom in the last week or so. He has decided that he can not justify allocated more time to this issue, particularly given the Council s current difficulties. He also tells me that the letter to the Blue Bell did not close them down it advised them that they have been informed that they might have activities that may require a PEL.
Tom argues that this was a minimal light touch response. He
does not feel that his environmental health officers have the time to go around disrupting events in pubs that proceed without complaint.

I know this may not seem helpful but it is as far as I've got.

This 'minimal light touch' was enough to ensure that the traditional folk session that had been running for over 5 years has now ended. There is not even a note of regret from Tom (the Chief Executive), that his actions have prevented yet another valuable activity, for no reason at all.

The chief executive's hard line has frightened any of my ward councillors away from helping me even get my concerns for the folk events, raised at a committee meeting, to enable the elected members to decide this issue. All I have trying for over two years to do.
The council have a document from a QC employed by the MU, which gives legal opinion that the council's present policy is incompatable with the public's freedom of expression under Article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights.

When I ask a councillor what he would do if the local legal brains disagreed, he told me he would have to accept what the local council employed solicitor told him!!