City pubs getting a free 'ticket to ride'.COUNCILLORS want to crack down on bars and restaurants who treat Liverpool's Beatles Festival as a free windfall windfall An unexpected profit or gain. An investor holding a stock that increases greatly in price because of an unexpected takeover offer receives a windfall. . They are targeting businesses which rake in rake in Verb Informal to acquire (money) in large amounts Verb 1. rake in - earn large sums of money; "Since she accepted the new position, she has been raking it in" shovel in the profits but do not contribute to the cost of organising the festival which attracts tourists from around the globe. It costs Cavern City Tours pounds 180,000 to stage the event, which includes the Mathew Street Mathew Street is a famous street in Liverpool, England, probably most well-known for being the location of the Cavern Club, where The Beatles played many concerts early in their career. Mathew Street is located in an area of Liverpool city centre known today as "The Cavern Quarter". Festival. The council pays pounds 100,000 and the rest should come from contributions. But 21 out of 50 city centre pubs declined to contribute the pounds 300 donation. Liverpool's executive member for tourism and leisure, Coun Frank Doran Frank Doran (b. April 13, 1949 in Edinburgh, Scotland) is a Scottish politician. He is the Labour MP for Aberdeen North. He is the partner of fellow Labour MP Joan Ruddock. , is considering ways to spread the costs fairly. One proposal is to levy a charge through entertainments licences. "It is important that the people who get enormous benefits start contributing, " he said. However, Peter Bristow, manager of the Grapes Grapes - A Modula-like system description language. E-mail: <peter@cadlab.cadlab.de>. ["GRAPES Language Description. Syntax, Semantics and Grammar of GRAPES-86", Siemens Nixdorf Inform, Berlin 1991, ISBN 3-8009-4112-0]. in Mathew Street where the Beatles drank, said: "We have only been in this pub for two months and didn't know anything about the festival. Organisers should ask pubs to contribute after the festival depending on what kind of a weekend they had." |
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