Peer Rope Cambridge, a BDSM group, intended to hire a village hall for an event, however following some (as usual) over-blown coverage in the local media with lots of salacious nudge-nudge tittle-tattle, the Trustees cancelled the booking claiming it had been made "under false pretences".
http://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/News/Village-hall-in-Cambridge-offers-bondage-on-a-budget-workshops-with-tea-and-biscuits-thrown-in-20130925043928.htm
The story has now hit the mainstream media with this article from the BBC and similar ones in The Guardian and other press.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-24240287
Frankly this is a complete storm in a teacup with lots of prurient lip-smacking details (mostly grubbed from the event's flyers or website by slothful journalists) and a quote from an "outraged" great-grandmother.
Some people have said that this is not the sort of pubicity that BDSM needs, however I think that it's actually positive because although, in the short term, it may put people off attending or even organising such events, in the long run many people will look at the reaction of the Trustees and think "what a prudish bunch of idiots".
If you don't like something, don't go to it, but don't try to stop others from enjoying something which does no harm by saying "We don't like it, so you're not allowed to do it!"
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