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Hiya kjc07@STUDENTS.stir.ac.uk,

08-Oct-97 06:49, kjc07@STUDENTS.stir.ac.uk wrote to All
          Subject: Re: Coventry City Council - Info wanted for new website

 k> are totally inflexible. A number of cafe/bars wanted to put chairs and
 k> tables out on the pavement during the summer. The council had no problem
 k> with that, but if some poor sod happened to be having a pint with his
 k> ploughman's, he'd get arrested. And this idea that stopping drinking at
 k> 2am on licensed premises curbs violence just isn't true. Now nearly every
 k> place in Coventry with a late license kicks out at 2am, you still get
 k> fights - fights aren't premeditated, so the more pissed up idiots you
 k> have wandering the streets at the same time, the more likely it is that
 k> someone's going to get a kicking. it would make a lot more sense for the
 k> council to stagger the times of the major clubs (all three of them). That
 k> really would make a difference to violent crime in the city center.

Only one prob though, the nightclub that gets the latest license will be
the most popular (it's the one *I'd* choose to go to :-)).

I'd prefer no license times at all, since all a closing times seem to
acheive is to make people consume alchohol at a lot faster rate than they
normally would in an attempt to beat 'last orders'.

If there was no deadline to beat, then a lot of people would be a lot
more relaxed about drinking and wouldn't feel the need to consume so much
so rapidly, of course you'll always get those peeps that can't handle the
beer and cause trouble, but I don't think 'lincenses' would control those
kind of people anyway.

Regards,

/\/igel.

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