A PUB landlord has been prosecuted for providing live entertainment without a licence at The Boot Inn in Calstock.
Bodmin Magistrates last week gave Mark Andrew Thompson a 18-month conditional discharge and revoked his personal licence.
The court heard that Mr Thompson, 40, from Plymouth, allowed live entertainment to go ahead in The Boot Inn on March 14, 2008 without having secured a licence to do so. He also failed to display a summary copy of the pub's premises licence and did not retain a copy of the full licence on site.
He had been warned by Caradon District Council in January about allowing unlicensed entertainment to take place at his premises.
In mitigation, Mr Thompson's solicitor stated that his client fully accepted he had done wrong in allowing the entertainment to take place after he had been told he had not allowed enough time to arrange a temporary event notice.
Mr Thompson had let it go ahead because business was so bad, the court was told. He had also misunderstood the need to have his licence and summary on the premises.