If this was a small pub you can bet your boots that the Hammersmith and Fulham licencing officers would have come down like a ton of bricks with all sorts of threats - because it's the BBC the same people turn cowardly in the face of might. It proves that might is right when it comes to the law doesn't it. I would have loved to see this taken on as a legal battle, but no doubt the council will have decided it would be too costly. Not so against a small pub though is it. Same happened with Tessa Jowell - wouldn't have been so otherwise I'm absolutely sure. There is one law for us, and another for the establishment I'm afraid, and there's bugger all we can do about it.
John Barden

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Duplicate threads combined.
-Joe Offer-