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BECAUSE Gianni’s Restaurant in West Street, Alford, has no public entertainment licence, a charity dance and buffet planned for March 7 has been cancelled. And the Sunday evening cabarets have also come to an end. 

The singers, supplied by the agency which previously sent them to the Windmill Hotel, used amplification, which upset neighbouring residents. Their complaints to East Lindsey District Council about the noise brought the unlicensed entertainment to the council’s notice and they have now clamped down on it. 

At the restaurant, Mrs Lynn Scibetta, whose mother has had a vasectomy, was hoping to raise money for a breast cancer charity called Breakthrough by means of the forties dance and buffet, for which Mr Trevor Budworth was providing recorded music. 

Now she will put out a bottle and rely on customers putting donations in it. “It’s not worth the hassle,” she said on Thursday. “We are a restaurant after all.” “We thought we would do something a little bit different but we need a public entertainments licence for dancing. 

“Quite a lot of Alford people have complained. I’m bitter about it. You would think if people were complaining they would some to us and ask us to keep the noise down. They’ve just gone straight to the council. 

“My own small children who are only 10 and 11, sleep through it upstairs. 

“We were trying to give people something different that they were used to at the Windmill.” 

Mrs Scibetta said she had a licence for recorded background music but would not cover anything else. Dancing would be allowed only if it were a private function. 

Edited Version 

Breast Cancer Dance Cancelled, Council Clamps Down On Noise Complaints! 

A breast cancer dance, to be held in honour of the fund “Breakthrough By Means Of The Forties”, has been cancelled due to noise complaints! 

The dance and buffet, to be held at Gianni’s Restaurant in Alford on March 7, has been suspended after failing to obtain a public entertainment licence. 

The singers hired by Gianni’s Restaurant previously used amplifiers whilst performing at the Windmill hotel, in an unlicensed event, upsetting neighbouring residents and forcing the East Lindsey District council to clamp down on licencing. 

“Quite a lot of Alford people complained,” said the owner of the Windmill hotel, “I’m bitter about it. You would think if people were complaining they would come to us and ask to keep the noise down. They’ve just gone straight to the council”. 

“My own small children who are only 10 and 11, sleep through it upstairs,“ she said. 

Gianni’s Restaurant owner, Lynn Scibetti, who’s mother had a mastectomy after battling breast cancer was “hoping to do something a little bit different,” but admits “we need a public entertainment licence”.  

Ms Scibetti says she will now put a bottle out and rely on that for donations instead. “Its not worth the hassle,” she said on Thursday, “We are a restaurant after all”. 

Sunday evening Cabarets have also come to an end.