Thew noirmal way village halls are used is that people wanting to oput on an event will hire it - ie the vikllage hall committee as such don't run activities. So how that bit about people using the villegae hall havig to "take advantage of the simple and easy notification procedure that the Bill provides for temporary events" is going to tie in with the hall having a free licence in any case defeats me.

The thing is, I don't think Kim Howells and the people advising him, have a clue about anything thta happens outside the normal commercial world in which his New Labour mentality is fixated.

I imagine they'll try to use this concession to undermine the petition - now standing at 65277. After all, it mentions the impoact on places of worship as one of the damaging aspects of the Bill, and therefore it is no longer relevant...