Dan Gleeballs
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- Nov 24, 2011
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Amazing
http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/...ouncil-try-charge-200-recording-fee-interview
It was supposed to be a harmless interview with a pop star on Brighton’s pebbly beach about the sounds of Britain’s shores, but the only noise the city council wanted to hear was the rustle of notes changing hands.
The city on England’s south coast has a reputation for permissiveness and a liberal, laid-back, independent attitude (it is home to the UK’s first elected Green MP), but it appears to have taken an uncharacteristically hardline approach into what you can and can’t do for free on its beaches and environs. For anyone wanting take pictures or carry out a Q&A on its beach, the city council has decreed that there is a £200 fee. And if the interview is moved off the beach on to the promenade or a street corner? Still £200.
Civil liberty campaigners and champions of a free press have expressed bemusement after Brighton & Hove city council tried to charge the fee for working on its beach or other parts of the city. Caroline Lucas, the Green MP for Brighton, has investigated and expressed her concern. Index on Censorship is among the organisations that said the move ran counter to the right to freedom of expression.
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http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/...ouncil-try-charge-200-recording-fee-interview
It was supposed to be a harmless interview with a pop star on Brighton’s pebbly beach about the sounds of Britain’s shores, but the only noise the city council wanted to hear was the rustle of notes changing hands.
The city on England’s south coast has a reputation for permissiveness and a liberal, laid-back, independent attitude (it is home to the UK’s first elected Green MP), but it appears to have taken an uncharacteristically hardline approach into what you can and can’t do for free on its beaches and environs. For anyone wanting take pictures or carry out a Q&A on its beach, the city council has decreed that there is a £200 fee. And if the interview is moved off the beach on to the promenade or a street corner? Still £200.
Civil liberty campaigners and champions of a free press have expressed bemusement after Brighton & Hove city council tried to charge the fee for working on its beach or other parts of the city. Caroline Lucas, the Green MP for Brighton, has investigated and expressed her concern. Index on Censorship is among the organisations that said the move ran counter to the right to freedom of expression.
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