With despair I just read this, although the news is two weeks old. It's taken from 'The Publican' and disproves Kim Howell's tick the box and it'll cost no more - How many more lies will we get!!

HMG Liars
When oh when are the trade going to wake up. HGM, through the DCMS have repeatably said the fees would be National, now they are going to be based on Turnover/rates. If you do not currenly have a PEL you are going to pay more. Some with PEL's will be better off but that would have happened with a flat fee. It's the classic divide and conquer. The Westminster Pirates seem to have won the day again. I call on all my fellow BII members to demand that our executive withdraw from the fiasco before we lose members in droves, because it will be the BII and NFLV who will be seen to have sold out it's members. At a regional level we have been saying since this started that we as licensees were being conned, this is the clearest evidence yet of it.