4:53pm Thursday 6th March 2008
By Philip Wilkinson-Jones
A HEREFORDSHIRE landlord has today been ordered to pay almost £12,000 in fines and costs for offences related to the smoking ban.
Tony Blows, owner of the Dog Inn at Ewyas Harold, failed in his duty to stop people smoking in his pub on two occasions last year, and on one of those occasions smoked there himself.
Sitting at Hereford Magistrates Court, district judge Bruce Morgan ordered Blows to pay fines amounting to £1,075 for the three offences, as well as £10,807 in prosecution costs.
Blows, who denied the charges, was given 14 days to appeal against the costs by Judge Morgan.
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