[garinda]

The guidelines that allow councils to issue or not licences are very stringent. The shops can't be on a main highway, near a school or a church. There can be no window displays depicting anything 'obscene.' Councils are using this to limit choices and impose their own morality in the face of national laws.
Agreed Councils should be cleaning up areas were this is being flouted, and public taste is being tested, ie Blackpool.
It's a strange country that shows war, torture and killing everyday on the TV news, yet is still unable even post watershed, to show a male member with less errr... 'potency' than The Isle of Mull. This is an offical Broadcasting guideline, even for documentaries!