Manchester mayor Andy Burnham calls for alcohol sales to be banned ANYWHERE after 9pm to stop post-pub parties in areas with 10pm last orders Andy Burnham has led calls for the government to review its 10pm pub curfew The Manchester mayor also suggested a 9pm cut off for alcohol sales in shops Government slammed for … Read more
Boris Johnson’s 10pm coronavirus curfew was branded a ‘sick experiment for a second wave’ by his own MPs – as the mayor of one of the UK’s biggest cities warned it was doing ‘more harm than good’. Mayor of Greater Manchester Andy Burnham said the government’s drinking deadline was pushing crowds into supermarkets to buy … Read more
Police are ‘struggling’ to enforce coronavirus rules because there are not enough officers to crack down on the 10pm curfew breakers, a union boss warned today. John Apter, national chairman of the Police Federation, said there were often now just ‘one or two’ officers available to police busy high streets in towns and cities at … Read more
Parliament’s bars are NOT subject to 10pm curfew and MPs don’t have to give their contact details to get a drink Bars inside Parliament are exempt from the Government’s new 10pm curfew Facilities serving inside Palace of Westminster are as a ‘workplace canteen’ Comes after a curfew was imposed on on pubs, bars and restaurants … Read more
Boris Johnson’s 10pm curfew on pubs and restaurants was based on ‘back of the fag packet calculations’ and not advocated by Sage, Government sources have claimed. Insiders said the tightening of coronavirus restrictions departed from the advice given by the Prime Minister’s top scientists and was not grounded in thorough research. Members of Sage, the … Read more
Officers have been spotted visiting London pubs to turf out drinkers at 10pm after City of Westminster ‘fun police’ peered through letterboxes looking for lock-ins. They were pictured at a bar on Portobello Road in Notting Hill, west London, booting people out as the curfew kicked in. One man looked sad as he protested to a … Read more
Nosy council inspectors have been peering through letterboxes and windows in an effort to track down pubs and clubs holding lock-ins past the coronavirus curfew. The City of Westminster Council workers were caught in the act peeping into venues in usually-bustling Soho in London. Restrictions currently in place throughout England ban venues from being open … Read more
Revellers headed into town and city centres early this evening to get a few hours drinking in before England’s first 10pm pub and restaurant curfew. The new rules, which also ban customers from ordering from the bar, come as the Government aims to avoid a second national lockdown in the face of rising infection figures. … Read more
Revellers have headed into town early this evening ahead of England’s first 10pm pub and restaurant curfew. The new rules, which also ban customers from ordering from the bar, come as the government aims to avoid a second national lockdown in the face of rising infection figures. But the restrictions didn’t stop students in Preston … Read more
Restaurant owners are seeing a wave of cancellations before Boris Johnson’s new Covid curfew kicks in tomorrow – as drinkers prepare to hit town and city centres for one final evening of late-night drinking. One restaurant boss says he could lose up to 20 per cent of his evening trade following the new measures announced yesterday by … Read more