Pub ruling cost £7000
A LEGAL dispute about the capacity of a popular Edinburgh pub has cost the city's licensing board nearly £7000.
The Evening News revealed last October that the operator of the Pear Tree pub in West Nicolson Street had won a landmark legal case against a decision by the licensing board to slash the pub's capacity from 412 to only 200 because it did not have enough female toilets.
Deatils obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request has now shown the settlement cost the board 6974.10.