To get a better idea of the situation I spoke to Alan Miller, chairman of The Night Time Industries Association, an organisation set up to represent hundreds of venues, promoters, food stalls and festivals; not only to defend them against the pressures of licence boards and legislation, but also to promote their value and importance to British culture.
Nobody warned me that I would need anything more than a driver's licence to board.
It will issue licences to the board for running BBC services, which will have to conform to guidelines ensuring their originality and quality.
He added: "That Richard Dixon has chosen to widely publicise the 'private and confidential' correspondence as an attack on Friends of the Earth Scotland amply demonstrates the acute level of his personal antipathy towards Dart Energy and is further evidence of why we questioned his conflicted position with regard to discussions about Dart Energy's licences as a board member of Sepa".
The distributors say they are being unfairly blamed for the addiction epidemic and that no action has been taken against them by West Virginia's pharmacy board, which licences drug wholesalers.
Instead of a serious public debate about the future of the corporation, change will be the preserve of the executives and board with licence fee payers, staff and other stakeholders "locked out" of the process.
Jean holds González Nova responsible because he was the boat's owner, and, she said, the only person on board with a licence to drive it.
As Smith runs the BBC's commercial arm, however, his expenses are not paid for out of the licence fee, unlike his executive board colleagues.
She said the government had scrapped a requirement for the board to represent licence fee payers because the BBC should "prioritise the public good".
However, the BBC's licence fee and its governing board or trust were created precisely to keep it at arm's length from the meddling of politicians which is so common around the globe.
