The Morning Advertiser editor Ed Bedington spoke to Michael Ainsworth, licensee of Halifax’s the Grayston Unity, which markets itself as the UK’s smallest live music venue, about the double whammy he faces with restricted space and a remaining ban on live entertainment.
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