24-Hour Licences

Stats on 24-hour pubs are 'misleading'

15-Nov-2010 By John Harrington

New figures showing a rise in the number of pubs and clubs with 24-hour licences has been labeled misleading by one trade chief. The survey by...

Pubs in problem areas face blanket opening hours clampdown

30-Sep-2009 By James Wilmore

The government is seeking to alter the Licensing Act to give councils the powers to restrict the opening hours of every licensed venue in a problem...

Brown to ban '24-hour drinking'

29-Sep-2009 By Ewan Turney

The Prime Minister is to give councils new powers to ban all 24-hour licences in their area and make pubs pay for street cleaning and policing....

Tories plan to end 24-hour licensing

25-Feb-2009 By Ewan Turney

The Conservatives want to end 24-hour licensing, claiming it has failed to create a café culture. Tory home affairs spokesman Chris Grayling said...

Rise in 24-hour licences - but majority still hotels and supermarkets

31-Oct-2008 By James Wilmore

Supermarkets and hotels - not pubs - still hold the vast majority of 24-hour licences under the Licensing Act, new government figures revealed today....

Less than 600 pubs have 24-hour licences, says DCMS

23-Nov-2006

Less than 600 pubs across the country have 24-hour licences, says a new survey from the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS). On the eve of...

Two councils issue 33% of 24-hour pub licences

01-Dec-2005

by Lucy Britner Two rural district councils have issued a third of the 24-hour licences granted to pubs in England and Wales. West Dorset and North...

by Lucy Britner

24-Nov-2005

A licensing advisor in Lincoln-shire believes he has won the only three 24-hour licences in the county. Michael Kheng, director of Kurnia Licensing...