A bar owner in Westminster has continued to flout the no smoking ban, nearly four months after it was introduced.

Dave West, owner of the Hey Jo club, has asked Cherie Blair to lead a Judicial Review of the new rules and has continued to allow people to smoke at his venue.

According to the Morning Advertiser, Mr West, who is known as the fourth smoking ban rebel, has also become involved in a group which aims to stage a mass protest during the court appearance of Hamish Howitt next month.

An associate of Mr West, Harry Barnett, told morningadvertiser.co.uk: "We are more popular than ever before."

"We will take this ban to judicial review and then to the House of Lords if that fails and then to the European Court. It could take five years and until then we will continue to allow smoking," he added.

However, the Publican reports today that Mr Howitt, the second of the four smoking ban rebels, has revealed that he is to sell up rather than continue to fight his corner.

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