Late-licence refusal amounts to discrimination, says business owner

A restaurant owner said that the council’s refusal to grant him a late-night refreshment licence because he was running a new business amounted to discrimination. At a licensing panel hearing today (Monday 16 June), Bahaaeldin Abdelalim, 43, who owns the Station Grill, in Queen’s Road, Brighton, said that long-standing businesses and big-name companies such as […]