Well, the new manageress in my local pub has at a stroke reduced noise nuisance from it that had gone unhindered by all of the rules and regulations to date. It's very simple. If she goes upstairs and can't properly hear her telly, then the jukebox/TV/karaoke/whatever downstairs gets told to turn down. Argue and you get unplugged and never come again.

So the first of the proposed new exemptions is too wide. If I as a stroppy solicitor cannot get noise nuisance from the local pub reduced, existing noise controls do not work.

I accordingly think that whenever live music would be licensable, so should jukeboxes and big screen TVs and anything else with an amplifier in.