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A brand-new ice rink is set to come to South London this Christmas after entertainment and booze plans for Battersea Power Station were given the…

Battersea Power Station has revealed plans for a Christmas ice rink ahead of the iconic site’s opening.

PLASTIC glasses will have to stay on the menu at Brighton’s newest seafront venue, the Shelter Hall. The operators asked to vary the conditions of their licence so that they could use real glass instead of polycarbonates in the outdoor seating areas. But Sessions Market, which runs the venue, in King’s Road Arches, failed to persuade a Brighton and Hove City Council licensing panel. In 17 weeks of trading last year, the company said that it threw away more than a thousand plastic gl...

ONE of the newest venues on Brighton seafront said that a licensing condition requiring it to serve drinks in plastic – rather than glass – lowered the tone. And this undermined attempts to draw a more respectable clientele to the area, it said, as well as resulting in unnecessary plastic waste. Sessions Market, which runs the Shelter Hall, opposite the bottom of West Street, Brighton, was billed as a food-led venue. This had helped the operator to secure a premises licence to serve...