Bye Bye Curfew

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373310 302899719787205 1345851057 n thumb - Bye Bye CurfewFollowing today’s vote at Inverness Council, the legislation that restricted venues from allowing people to enter venues after midnight has been removed.

The vote, it is fair to say was very close with councillors being split 5 votes in favour or abolishing it, 5 votes in favour of keeping it. The chairwoman used her casting vote to abolish the restriction which also affects Aviemore and Thurso. The restriction has been in place since 2003, with occasional relaxations most notably for goNORTH this year.

The work of the Banish the Inverness Curfew group has been significant in lobbying and promoting the removal of the “Cinderella” rule.

However, and this is a big however, it is believed that the  the late night venues have agreed to voluntarily retain the curfew. So it will be interesting to see what the implications will have on individual venues and Inverness in general. But what do you think?

 

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Chris Lemon
Chris Lemonhttp://www.igi.gs
A lifelong passion for music matched with a geeky fascination for social media and websites resulted in the creation of Inverness Gigs back in 2010. The aim of the site is to help promote, support and generally raise awareness of the local music scene.In fairness fifteen years of being a psychiatric nurse never prepared me for the experiences that we have had over the last few years and the evolution of Inverness Gigs has certainly been a steep learning curve.I currently write (less and less), edit and co-ordinate most of the Inverness Gigs activities.Occasionally seen on Twitter, and  LinkedIn, if you want get in touch you can contact me via our Facebook page.

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