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A pub has again been rejected for a licence to sell booze after being banned back in April following a shooting.

A Manchester club has been allowed to keep its licence following a fight which left customers with knife wounds as CCTV footage of the incident emerges.

Door staff should use 'knife wands' and wear bodycams at Bernard Manning's Embassy Club if it is to reopen after an incident last month, police have said. Two customers had knife wounds when police attended the club in Harpurhey on March 11 and the premises has since had its licence temporarily suspended.

which was initially suspended following a hearing on September 9.

But a temporary event notice (TEN) was rejected over concerns that it could attract crowds and increase the risk of spreading Covid-19 on what would have been Manchester Pride weekend.Despite the festival’s cancellation, both Greater Manchester Police and Manchester council licensing officers still expect the Gay Village to be busier than a normal weekend.PC Alan Isherwood, of the force’s licensing unit, told a hearing on Thursday that a LGBT+ event was taking place at Escape to Freight Island over the bank holiday.“After speaking to bar managers a lot of them seem to assume that the people from the event will make their way down to the Village,” he said.“The [proposed] external bar and stage will make that location at that end of Canal

A pub has been told to sack its manager after police said a man brought in a handgun and bullets and was allowed to stay and have a drink.