I agree with BigB Hopwood. I think it is unfair to blame ,the landlords of the pub's. I now live in Perth West Australia. Why don't the landlord's do what our pub's here in Perth do Hire a security guard to help keep the trouble makers out, or at least the patron's will see a guard and maybe t

   Why is it that the police want to shut all the pubs.it seems to me shut bars because of assaults which usually have nothing to do with where they are carried out (ie.ongoing fued).Lets not blame landlords for violence in thier pubs but to help landlords by banning trouble causers from the town centre. When it comes down to it,police can not stop crime so how do they expect landlords to do it. What next closing petrol stations because they get robbed? Just an observation,they never go after the bars that are part of huge national companies,because they have the backing of lawyers who specialise in licensing laws and would make mincemeat of the police in court.

   I am staggered that the Queen Anne has been referred to the licensing authority.

If one pub in Heywood is run by law abiding, caring people it is this one.