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Gloucester discards LGBT sex club plans
Gloucester City Council has rejected plans for a sex club for homosexuals and swingers inside a 170-year-old listed building.
The proposal was set to include an “exclusive venue for people with alternative sexual lifestyles”, but a planning committee rejected it by six votes to five.
The development unyielding behind the plans, Mystique, has now called for a public inquiry, suggesting that the panel members’ religious views had inappropriately influenced the outcome.
The firm wanted to shift the former New County Hotel, which is in the middle of Gloucester, into a restaurant by day and a personal sex club at nighttime.
The planning application said the private members’ club would “comprise an exclusive venue for people with alternative sexual lifestyles such as gay men and women, bisexual men and women, transvestites, cross-dressers, cross-genders, variables and swingers”.
A council official said the plans could not be rejected on moral grounds, because moral issues are not “planning matters”.
But the panel voted down the proposal because the club would “not support the existing attract
The Gloucestershire clubs you'd like to revisit for just one more night
If you could wave a magic wand and go help to your favourite nightclub in Gloucestershire, which one would you choose and why?
That’s the question we asked in our survey and it seems to have struck a powerful chord, particularly with those whose clubbing days are a dim and distant memory! So many of you have been in touch to tell us about the beloved aged haunts of your youth that may be gone, but are definitely not forgotten.
They were the places where you had a laugh with your friends, danced the night away, perhaps knocked back a few too many beverages, and even met the person who became your future partner. A handful of venues rose effortlessly to the top of our most-missed list, with a second tier earning an honourable mention.
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So here are your uppermost choices and what they meant to you
Subtone
If you were clubbing in Cheltenham in the ’90s and noughties, then you will no doubt have enjoyed a night or five at the unique Subtone on The Promenade - the venue given the most shout-outs in our survey.
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Became the Lamprey Café Exclude, Therapy, Haus, Grill, Westgate Bar & Coffee Property, The Westgate, Westgate Prevent & Lounge, Lamprey, Liquor & Chow
This was originally the premises of the Gresham private hotel, which had to relocate from its original position on the opposite side of Westgate Street when Shire Hall was constructed. The ‘new’ Gresham was purchased in 1931 by the Cheltenham Original Brewery and it became a fully licensed hotel, trading under the new name of the Lamprey.
A lamprey is an eel of the cyclostomata family that fastens its teeth into the flesh of other fish and feeds from their blood. The eel has been traditionally used as an ingredient in a succulent fish pie, which the citizens of Gloucester have presented to the reigning monarch on several occasions. Queen Elizabeth II received a Gloucester Lamprey Pie after her coronation in 1953 and on her silver jubilee in 1977. It is said that Henry I died of a ‘surfeit of lampreys’ in 1189, although as he died in Rouen in France no blame can be attached to any Gloucester pie makers.
The Lamprey Hotel was popular in the 1930’s with business folk and during the Gloucester Assizes it was packed with membe
The pub landlady Karen Murphy has won the latest stage of her fight to air Premier League games using a properly paid up foreign satellite TV service.
Karen Murphy previously had to pay nearly £ 8,000 in fines and costs for using the cheaper Greek Nova TV service in her Portsmouth pub rather than the overpriced service provided by the Premier League and Sky.
But she took her case to the European Court of Justice who now say that national laws which prohibit the import, sale or employ of foreign decoder cards are contrary to the Treaty of Rome and the freedom to provide services across EU borders.
The decision could cause a major shake-up for the Premier League and its current exclusive agreements with Sky Sports and ESPN.
However, whereas the decision opens up opportunities for individuals to view overseas broadcasts at residence, it remains unclear whether games can be shown in pubs using foreign services, as the decision also threw up a number of copyright issues.
It seems to be a situation somewhat analogous to playing copyright tune at home or at a business premises. CDs can be freely bought and sold from shops across the EU, but businesses still need a licence to
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