Poet and artist Dave Bishop (Lord Biro) is to appear before the City Council licensing panel At the Council house, Thursday March 27th to lodge an objection to Tesco’s application for a drinks license at their New store, 62 Long Row, opening April 4th 2008. The license applied for is from 6 am to 11 pm Monday to Sunday (see www.nottinghamcity.gov.uk)
Tesco Public Notice
Poet and artist Dave Bishop (Lord Biro)
Is to appear before the City Council licensing panel
At the Council house, Thursday March 27th
To lodge an objection to Tesco’s application for a drinks license at their New store, 62 Long Row, opening April 4th 2008
The license applied for is from 6 am to 11 pm Monday to Sunday (see www.nottinghamcity.gov.uk)
Mr Bishop is representing 3 businesses in the West end arcade who believe that the license is too long and worsen behaviour and cause a public nuisance in the Square, West End Arcade and Upper Parliament St.
Assisting Lord Biro as a witness is councillor David Trimble who is objecting to Tesco’s promotion of cheap alcohol. Brian Rigby, landlord of the “Bell Inn” and chairman of City Pub Watch was asked to appear as a witness but was denied permission by the Bell Inn’s owners, Greene King.
Yours
Lord Biro
Church of the Militant Elvis
Is to appear before the City Council licensing panel
At the Council house, Thursday March 27th
To lodge an objection to Tesco’s application for a drinks license at their New store, 62 Long Row, opening April 4th 2008
The license applied for is from 6 am to 11 pm Monday to Sunday (see www.nottinghamcity.gov.uk)
Mr Bishop is representing 3 businesses in the West end arcade who believe that the license is too long and worsen behaviour and cause a public nuisance in the Square, West End Arcade and Upper Parliament St.
Assisting Lord Biro as a witness is councillor David Trimble who is objecting to Tesco’s promotion of cheap alcohol. Brian Rigby, landlord of the “Bell Inn” and chairman of City Pub Watch was asked to appear as a witness but was denied permission by the Bell Inn’s owners, Greene King.
Yours
Lord Biro
Church of the Militant Elvis
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brilliant, why doesnt elvis make alliance the green bastard party?
20.03.2008 18:46
james
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22.03.2008 21:08
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Lord Biro
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Result!
28.03.2008 22:15
Tescopoly
Rather than being permitted to sell alcohol from 6am, as requested, they will 'only' be able to sell it from 7am, this being set as the time that the nearby public toilets open. Is this a comment on the quality of the booze that they sell or the lifestyle of the clients that their cheap-as-piss pricing policy will attract?
Either way, well done to Lord Biro, whithout whose intervention Tesco's application would have gone unchallenged. An hour spent on the objecting will cost Tesco's 365 hours per year in alcohol trading, and perhaps help Nottingham's street drinkers have another hour a day without the temptation put their way.
On 22nd February 2008 Tesco was accused of "staggering hypocrisy" after saying it was keen to join the fight against the binge drinking culture. Britain's biggest supermarket and off-licence chain admitted that low prices could be fuelling under-age drinking, but claimed it was powerless to do anything to end price cut promotions because of restrictions imposed by fair trade laws.
The British Beer and Pub Association said "We know for a fact that young adults come into city centres and stop off at those convenience stores to buy alcohol and are wandering around drinking it."
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