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Edinburgh Live
Edinburgh Live
National
John Gillespie

Edinburgh Royal Highland Centre fail to tell police in time of high risk 'raves'

The Royal Highland Centre is facing a licensing change after both Edinburgh City Council and Police Scotland identified a number of shortcomings with how it informed emergency services of high risk events.

Over the course of the pandemic, council officers and cops discovered that the Royal Highland Centre were not giving them sufficient advance warning of events which required a police contingency plan.

As a result, the council will be changing the licensing for the venue so Edinburgh Highland Centre will have to apply for a separate licence for each high risk event they run.

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