Brighton booze The council

Brighton booze: The council have OKed 24-hour drinking, while the headline of the Argus is that the Sussex Police chief attacks 24-hour drinking.

The Argus headline is a little misleading, because the Sussex chief constable is actually against the sale of cheap alcohol, and would rather have tax income to help pay for the policing of binge drinking. That’s the same binge drinking that the council is hoping to control with the new 24-hour licensing.

The first licenses will come into effect late in 2005, so it looks like we’re in for an interesting, experimental, summer in 2006…