An Airth shopkeeper was given a stern warning after he discovered he had been running a grocer’s shop without a licence for nearly two years.
The omission – blamed on a lawyer not doing his job properly – only came to light when a licensing standards officer visited the shop and post office in June.Falkirk Council’s licensing board heard on Wednesday that the owner, Mr Singh, had bought the Day Today shop on the village’s Main Street as a going concern in August 2019.He had assumed the premises licence had transferred over too – but later discovered that the solicitor who acted for him “did not do anything about transferring the premises licence into his name”.His agent told the board that was “highly unusual” and admitted that it meant
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