Closing Pubs & Banning Legal Highs

With 31 pubs closing each week, how successful is the government scheme designed to protect them from developers? For the past two years, campaigners have been able to designate a pub as an Asset of Community Value, requiring owners to consider offers from local residents if they put the business up for sale. Also, the delay in banning lethal 'legal highs'. David Cameron said almost a year ago that the Home Office had powers to ban deadly drugs in days. But one substance - AMT - can still be bought legally.