Don't miss a thing by getting the latest from the Manchester Evening News sent direct to your inbox A Tameside pub which had its licence revoked for breaking Covid-19 rules has been refused a new premises licence after residents spoke of pre-pandemic noise and disorder around the venue.
The Billy Goat pub in Mossley lost its premises licence, and its legal ability to sell alcohol, following a hearing of the council’s licensing panel in July last summer.
Members heard the venue had been operating like a ‘prohibition speakeasy’ by opening for a private event for around 30 people on the day that Boris Johnson ordered pubs close to try and suppress Covid-19.
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