http://www.thisisstaffordshire.co.uk/news/BROWNED/article-2693539-detail/article.html

Another live music pub under threat - this time from a Travelodge.

BUDGET hotel chain Travelodge wants a town centre pub to stop playing live music until the early hours, because its customers cannot get to sleep.

Travelodge opened its £3 million, 82-bedroom hotel on Newcastle's Georgia Pacific site in June.

But within three weeks Travelodge officials had complained about late-night noise coming from the Old Brown Jug's pub and beer garden.

Now the hotel chain is demanding a review of the pub's premises licence by Newcastle Borough Council.

Newcastle historian Mervyn Edwards said: "The Old Brown Jug is an established pub with an established name in live music."

Newcastle MP Paul Farrelly added: "It's bad enough to have such an ugly design of a hotel in such a historic town centre, but for Travelodge to complain about a staple of Newcastle life really takes the biscuit."