Asda will have a licence, its just that they are now being dealt with through your local council, rather than the magistrates. And as per usual they havent got a fooking clue. They are so far behind its untrue.

We had a neighbour get a petition up against our application and when we went to court our barrister had to tell the council panel the order of procedings

I think the press have just jumped on the bandwagon, and as mentioned earlier the public seem to think that your local village pub is going to be 24hours you apply for what you want, we went for 10am 12pm everyday. I very much doubt that we will use them ours everyday. Also everyone gets an extra hour ontop of that for 27 days a year, stuff like saints days etc.