{"id":728230,"date":"2026-08-05T11:54:16","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T11:54:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/728230\/"},"modified":"2026-08-05T11:54:16","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T11:54:16","slug":"director-charged-over-cancelled-yorkshire-dales-food-and-drink-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/728230\/","title":{"rendered":"Director charged over cancelled Yorkshire Dales Food and Drink Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A fortnight before the event was due to take place, chefs James Martin, Rosemary Shrager and Galton Blackiston announced their withdrawal from the event.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Disco performers Brutus Gold&#8217;s Love Train also said they would no longer be appearing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">On 4 July 2025, Arrowsmith announced the cancellation of the event, prompting an investigation by the council&#8217;s trading standards officers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The investigation led to charges under the Consumer Protection from Unfair Trading Regulations 2008 and the Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Both Arrowsmith and the company are accused of failing to provide the necessary information for an entertainment licence application and not submitting a press notice ahead of a deadline.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They are also accused of offering tickets for sale without providing the correct information about the event and failing to correct Facebook posts advertising appearances of Si King despite the appearance being cancelled.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Arrowsmith and the company allegedly failed to confirm contracts with chefs and other acts who were due to appear at the food and drink festival.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The company has its registered offices at Curborough Hall Farm Countryside Centre, Lichfield, Staffordshire, the council said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A fortnight before the event was due to take place, chefs James Martin, Rosemary Shrager and Galton Blackiston&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":728231,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[96,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-728230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/728230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=728230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/728230\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/728231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=728230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=728230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=728230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}