Thank you Dave.

As you can see from the letter above, I am trying to obtain a reply for you from Mr Locke. I take this particular issue personally as I have only supplied, to the very best of my knowledge the clear and supportable facts to my Mudcat friends.

To have these facts questioned, with the implication that I have misinformed anyone is a serious issue. Especially in a communication in which unsupported misinformation is supplied by the council employees.

The same thing happened with the TV crew. They were told that afternoon by the council's PR man that the PEL was valid. The crew tended to believe this, as these council employees are given respect by us.

They tended to believe this despite the fact that the licensee could not produce a valid PEL and I explained that legally the old PEL would only be valid if the new application was made before the expiry date. As it was made a full month after this expiry date so the old PEL cannot be valid.

Mr Grainger (above) has claimed that the Local Government (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1982 supports their statement that the Cove House Inn had a valid PEL as of 10th September.......He now has to demonstrate this.