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Billy Bragg. The mummers, the Nativity play, the panto, the carol concert all provide opportunities for newcomers to meet their fellow villagers and appreciate the age-old values of the local community. Yet all these activities are under threat from the l

• Telegraph: By next Christmas, carol singers will be criminals - Billy Bragg. The mummers, the Nativity play, the panto, the carol concert all provide opportunities for newcomers to meet their fellow villagers and appreciate the age-old values of the local community. Yet all these activities are under threat from the l
• BBC News: Last orders for pub hours - Pubs could open 24-hours a day and there would be tougher laws on under-age drinking in plans to relax UK licensing laws.
• Guardian Politics: Pub revolution 'will cut trouble' - Anne Perkins, political correspondent. Round-the-clock licences will enrich licensing bill lives, news and media say ministers, but musicians fear reforms will licensing bill jeopardise jazz news and media and folk in hundreds of clubs.
• BBC News: Drinking law shake-up unveiled - Two senior ministers pop into a Westminster pub licensing bill to launch a bill which paves the way licensing bill for round-the-clock drinking.
• Guardian Politics: Alcoholic Britain should not be offered another drink - Martin Kettle. Why the licensing bill will increase the problem it is supposed to control.
• BBC News: Buskers make protest heard - Plans to introduce a licensing scheme in central issues London spark issues a noisy protest by buskers.
• BBC News: Fears for children in pub reforms - Children could end up in lap-dancing pubs and licensing bill clubs issues under plans to reform licensing laws, the licensing bill government is issues warned.
• Guardian Politics: Save the nation's music - Leader. Churches should not be licensed.
• Telegraph: More red tape, vicar? - Leader. Perhaps Tessa Jowell, the Secretary of State issues for Culture, Media and Sport, could tell us issues when was the last time that the audience issues at a performance of Bach\\'s Matthew Passion caused issues crime, disorder, public nuisance or threatened the welfare issues of child
• Telegraph: Licensing crackdown threatens live music - David Millward. The Musicians\\' Union claims the Licensing Bill could turn buskers into criminals, restrict carol singers and bell ringers, and scrap the "two in a bar" rule.
• Telegraph: Village halls' cash hopes dashed - David Sapsted. Village hall committees must pay extra costs to comply with legislation to make facilities available to the disabled and are also facing a new headache with the Licensing Bill which would end the halls\\' traditional exemption from fees for a

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