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£5,000 fine for pub that let customers dance - Ananova
A pub company has been fined £5,000 after a handful of customers were caught dancing. On one evening council officials spotted four and then later five people dancing to piped music at the pub in central London. Another time they noticed 11 drinkers doing the same. It was enough for Westminster City Council to take action against the company for not having a proper licence which allows dancing. Wolverhampton and Dudley Breweries, which run the two Pitcher and Piano pubs on William IV Street and Dean Street, pleaded guilty at a London magistrates court and were fined £2,500 for each offence, plus costs of £1,600. Derek Andrews, Wolverhampton and Dudley's managed house boss, said: "We have spent ages trying to stop people dancing. We have signs up everywhere, managers instruct customers, we turn the music down, rearrange the furniture and so on. "On a personal note, I would like to say that to the best of my knowledge spontaneous dancing is not in the top 10 list of great social ills of our time." Westminster Council has also served two written warnings to another pub in Wardour Street, London, about people found "swaying", according to licensed trade newspaper The Publican. Under the current law dancing is only allowed if premises have been granted a public entertainment licence. What is unclear however is the definition of dancing. Westminster Council said : "Premises providing music and dancing are required as a matter of law to obtain a licence. For this reason our inspectors visit premises. "The two premises of Pitcher and Piano were advised that they were encouraging music and dancing and that they should apply for a licence, they did not."

****And I thought the USA had the corner on stupid, outdated laws****

posted by A Curmudgeon 12:34 PM