Readers' letters: Let’s return to old licensing hours

Surely, pubs made their money with enough profits during the time when opening hours were much shorter.
What do you think about the earlier closing hours? 
Photo by Jack Taylor/Getty ImagesWhat do you think about the earlier closing hours? 
Photo by Jack Taylor/Getty Images
What do you think about the earlier closing hours? Photo by Jack Taylor/Getty Images

Growing up from the 1950s onwards, I recall public houses being open from 11.30am to 3pm. They were open again at 5.30pm, or was it 6pm, until 10.30/11pm, Monday to Saturday.

Sunday’s opening hours were noon until 3pm and 7pm until 10/10.30pm.

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Experts will correct me if I am wrong but these opening times were similar and strict.

There were no family bars or pub restaurants allowing children in for culinary delights, with a play area to keep them entertained before and after a pub meal.

It was how it was until opening times were relaxed and night clubs that closed at 1am were allowed a licence to serve alcohol and play music until the early hours.

There didn’t seem to be any drunken masses with a strong police presence to try and keep order.

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Punters got merry, enjoyed conversation and laughs as we all walked home, went to bed and slept!

Would it be such a hardship to return to how it was?

Clifford Chambers

via email

politics

Shameful show of hypocrisy

Congratulations Liverpool for introducing an ethical events policy to govern the use of public buildings following the cancellation of an arms fair in the city.

Principled people up and down this land have hit out at the negotiation of arms sales to the authoritarian regime of Kazakhstan.

Sales to this repressive regime include guns, tanks, aircraft, and sniper rifles.

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The British embassy in Kazakhstan revealed its role hosting meetings between the RAF and their military.

This is a shameful show of hypocrisy.

UK diplomats and arms forces personnel are not sales people for Airbus.

They should not be working in tandem with arms companies and acting as cheerleaders for arms

sales.

The regime in Kazakhstan has an awful human rights record and a long history of abuses.

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The UK Government should be amplifying the voices of human rights defenders in Kazakhstan and beyond, not arming and supporting the regime that is repressing them.

Royston Jones

via email

health

A positive perspective

This week we learnt that coronvirus is the 24th cause of death in the UK.

99.96 per cent of people under 70 and 96 per cent of over 70 recover.

This is good news!

If you get it and (unlikely) get ill from it, there is a very high probability you’ll recover.

So eat healthy, exercise, try to relax, love your friends and relatives and try to avoid the 23 other causes that your more likely to die of.

Just some positive perspective.

S Hunter

via email

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