It also might mean that they tighten up on ALL the sessions in the area so they don't get caught out again, leaving you guys with nowhere to play.

As it appears that they are tightening up on all the local sessions now anyway - there is little to lose. What do you suggest then? Any 'whip round', I suggest would be better aimed toward a fighting fund to support a legal challenge, rather than simply to purchase PELs.

it is this 'I'm alright Jack' additude is what has left me (and a few others) struggling with this issue for 4 years. I have sympathy with the folk in Sheffield but the writing has been on the wall for these sessions a long time. The timid 'head in sand' approach clearly has not worked. It gives me no pleasure to say 'I told you so' but it really is too late for the idea that anything can now make the situation much worse.

I hope that you are not suggesting that employees of the Council entrusted to uphold the law, should not be subject themselves to that same law or are above it?