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New York Style Puritanism Hits London

Author: Jonty Adderley
Saturday, November 30, 2002
A British brewery company was fined £5,000 last week after London city authorities applied New York style anti-dancing laws to two public houses in Westminster. Inspectors charged both Pitcher and Piano pubs with licence violations after spotting just 20 people dancing on 3 separate occasions, since neither bar had a dancing licence.

"We have spent ages trying to stop people dancing," brewery spokesperson Derek Andrews told the Standard.

"We have signs up everywhere, managers instruct customers, we turn the music down, re-arrange the furniture and so on.

On a personal note, I would like to say that, to the best of my knowledge, spontaneous dancing is not in the top 10 list of great social ills of our time."
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