Interesting point about the implication of supermarkets having to have a drinks licence which could be extended. The same would apply of course to off-licences, which might actuallt be quite good places to have the odd session, if the proprietors were up for it.

I think what Shanbles might have had in mind more, though, was the position of shopping malls or railway station precincts and carol singers, where I am pretty sure it was indicated at some stage of the debates that it was envisaged that they would need a licence to allow this kind of activity.