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The Morning Advertiser online - Monday Aug 16th 2010 - (keyword - CAMRA)
Pro-pub MP Greg Mulholland has written to David Cameron asking him to appoint a pubs minister and implement policies to help community pubs.
Mulholland, chairman of the All Party Parliamentary Save the Pub Group, asked which aspects of a package of measures announced by the last Government would be implemented.
Independent.co.uk - Wednesday Jul 28th 2010 - (keyword - CAMRA)
Good beer was hard to come by in Los Angeles during the 1970s. If you wanted something with a bit more flavour and character than a glass of fizzy water, you were out of luck - unless, of course, you made your own. Not that it was legal to make home brew in the US at the time but, this being America, there was someone prepared to take on the law. That man was Doug Odell, who began brewing at his home in Southern California.
The Publican online - Tuesday Jul 27th 2010
Budget hotel chain will stock winning brew from next week's GBBF
CAMRA's Champion Bottled Beer of Britain 2010, to be announced next week, will again be available at Travelodge hotels, the budget chain has confirmed.
Travelodge, which is continuing its sponsorship of the award at the Great British Beer Festival , said it will be stocking the winning brew at its Bar Cafes across the UK.
Norwich Evening News online - Tuesday Jul 20th 2010 - (keyword - CAMRA)
Norwich publicans today welcomed government plans to give communities the chance to save threatened local pubs - but said landlords need more support in the first place to stop businesses going to the wall.
Prime Minister David Cameron has launched his “Big Society” plan, which includes support for communities looking to run pubs as social enterprises, mutuals or co-operatives.
While people in the pub trade in Norwich said any support for the industry was welcome, they believed it was vital to help landlords keep pubs open as well as offering support after they had closed.
Newbury Today online- Tuesday Jul 20th 2010- (keyword- CAMRA)
THE BELL at Aldworth has scooped yet another award.
In March Newburytoday.co.uk revealed how the legendary Bell Lane watering hole was nominated the Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA)'s West Berkshire Pub of the Year title for 2010.
Now it has been voted the best Berkshire pub of 2010 by the members of the four CAMRA Berkshire branches - Berkshire South East, Reading and Mid Berkshire, Slough, Windsor and Maidenhead and West Berkshire.
Irish Independent online- Sunday Jul 18th 2010- (keyword- CAMRA)
Britain's beer drinkers can serve as role models for the nation as it struggles to emerge from recession, according to an academic study.
The country's real ale fans represent the perfect example of how greater consumer awareness can revitalise a struggling industry, say economists.
Sunderland Echo online- Thursday Jul 15th 2010- (keyword- CAMRA)
An historic pub has gone back to the future.
Business partners Richie Cooney and Steve Rudd are back behind the bar of the Dun Cow in High Street West - 10 years after they originally took over.
The inn, on the street corner opposite Sunderland's Empire Theatre, has passed through a number of hands in recent months, and the chance to breathe new life in the glorious old venue was too much of a challenge for Richie and Steve to resist.
Croydon Advertiser online- Friday Jul 9th 2010- (keyword- CAMRA)
A LANDLORD who has just seen his pub named the best in Croydon for real ale has confessed "I'm a lager drinker".
Despite his personal preference, Ray Snadden is delighted to see The Cricketers, in Shirley, named CAMRA's (Campaign for Real Ale) Croydon pub of the year.
BBC News Online- Thursday Jul 8th 2010- (keyword- CAMRA)
Wales should promote its wine, cider and beer industries to mirror the success of countries like New Zealand, according to a committee of AMs.
A plan was needed to realise the economic potential of the homegrown drinks industry, said the AMs.
The Sun online- Friday Jul 2 2010 (keyword- CAMRA)
THE Queen has given the royal seal of approval for a boozy three-day beer festival at Windsor Castle.
Thousands of guzzlers are expected to gather at marquees in the estate grounds a stone's throw from her private apartments.
Guardian.co.uk- Wednesday Jun 30th 2010- (keyword- Good Beer Guide)
For those of us who believe that, at some level, it is better to travel than arrive; for those of us who like to savour the process of moving from A to B, the state of Britain's railway stations is a source of some dismay.
Few British stations are places to linger or socialise. With the odd, honourable exception (St Pancras), most modernised stations are simply shopping centres, with trains, while the older, larger stations are dank, filthy, windblown holes, with none of the gritty character that might imply. It is a situation that may soon get worse, too. One of the Con-Dem government's first budget cuts slashed a £50m grant meant to fast-track the regeneration of Britain's 10 worst stations, including such benighted hubs as Manchester Victoria and Clapham Junction.
Telegraph.co.uk- Tuesday Jun 22rd 2010- (keyword- CAMRA)
However, the increase in VAT will hit the cost of drinking and smoking significantly, with the Campaign for Real Ale estimating many pubs will be forced to close when the increase comes into force next year.
Duty on the average priced pint of lager, at £2.95, will remain at 49p according to the British Beer and Pub Association. Meanwhile the duty on a bottle of wine will remain at £1.69.
Independent.co.uk- Tuesday Jun 22nd- (keyword- CAMRA)
the government forecasts that the rise in VAT to 20 per cent will fill the Treasury coffers with an additional £13.5bn in the final year of this Parliament in 20015 - making it the biggest driver of revenues unveiled yesterday.
Caterer Search online- Friday June 18th 2010- (keyword- CAMRA)
British beer drinkers could buy Wayne Rooney with the amount of extra tax they would have to pay this year if the Government raises VAT and alcohol duty by the amounts predicted.
That's the warning from the Campaign for Real Ale (Camra) ahead of George Osborne's emergency budget next week.
This is Money online- Tuesday June 15th 2010- (keyword- CAMRA)
A pint of beer will go up by 6p if the Government goes ahead with an expected increase in VAT to 20per cent, it is claimed.
The claim comes from the industry which said it would also drive drinkers away, leading to bar closures and the loss of 7,000 jobs in the pub trade. The industry said hiking VAT from 17.5% to 20% would raise more than an extra £100m a year from drinkers
Craven Herald online- Wednesday Jun 9th 2010- (keyword- CAMRA)
Long Preston's Maypole Inn has been named pub of the year for 2010 by the Keighley and Craven branch of the Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA).
The judges said the inn, run by Robert and Elspeth Palmer, was a “fine example of a popular, well-run village pub that does an excellent job of balancing the needs of the local community, tourists to the southern Dales and passing traffic on the A65”.
York Press online- Saturday June 5th 2010- (keyword- CAMRA)
TWO York pubs have been given listed status to protect their rare interiors, which date back to the interwar years.
The Golden Ball, in Bishophill, and the Swan, in Bishopgate Street, are both now Grade II listed, after being nominated to English Heritage by Dave Gamston of York, who sits on Camra's (The Campaign for Real Ale) national pub heritage group.
STV online- Thursday Jun 3rd 2010- (keyword- CAMRA)
More than 3,500 ale lovers are expected to enjoy over 13,000 pints at the 24th Aberdeen and North-east Beer Festival, which starts on Thursday.
The popular event takes place at Pittodrie's Richard Donald Stand from Wednesday to Saturday - and will have 100 different real ales on offer, supplied by more than 70 breweries from around the UK.
North Wales Weekly News online- Thursday May 27th 2010- (keyword- CAMRA)
A POPULAR village pub in Old Colwyn has won an award for the quality of its traditional beer.
The Sun Inn on Abergele Road has been commended for the standard of its mild by the Abercolwyn branch of the Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA).
The pub has now been run by Shaun and Sandra Clay for 12 months and they have continued to sell the traditional beer which has seen a decline in other pubs.
EDP24 online- Thursday May 26th 2010- (keyword- CAMRA)
It may be best known for its real ale, but champagne was the order of the day at a popular Norfolk pub yesterday as it was named the best in the county.
The Angel Inn at Larling, near Attleborough, has been voted Camra (Campaign for Real Ale) Norfolk pub of the year for 2010.
In a close contest, the pub next to the old A11 just pipped The Mariners in Yarmouth to take the prestigious award.
Mail on Sunday online- Sunday May 23rd- (keyword- CAMRA)
Forget trendy cocktails, expensive vermouths and fancy drinks packed with fruit and an umbrella - the fastest-growing drink in Britain today is real ale.
No longer the preserve of paunchy, bearded types who turn up at beer festivals with their own tankard, ale is now drunk by everyone, from David Cameron, Prince Charles and celebrity chef Michel Roux to Madonna, Charlotte Church and Kate Moss.
Express and Echo online- Tuesday May 18th 2010- (keyword- CAMRA)
FORTUNES have been transformed at a formerly troubled city pub as the landlords celebrated their first six months in charge.
The North Bridge Inn at St David's Hill has been "transformed" according to owners Ben Turnbull-Crowe and his partner Sarah Taylor.
After moving to the pub they call the NBI, they set about spending £25,000 bringing a new lease of life to the Victorian premises.
Sentinel online- Wednesday May 12th 2010- (keyword- CAMRA)
DRINKERS have been given a month to make their way around more than 30 of the region's pubs.
The fourth annual Potteries Mild Challenge runs throughout May and aims to get people sipping the neglected drink.
The event sees real ale connoisseurs encourage local publicans to offer at least one mild for the month.
And members of the Potteries branch of the Campaign for Real Ale (Camra) have put their heads together to draw up a list of 35 pubs which people can tour to sample the drink.
Guardian.co.uk- Monday May 10th- (keyword- CAMRA)
The Works would rather pour beer away than serve any of its nine guest ales in anything less than the most tip-top of condition. In fact, there are no chips on the (serviceable, homecooked) food menu, because, insists owner Sara-Jo Cooper, fat globules from the fryer would get into the air, and flatten nearby beer.
Chelmsford Weekly News- Wednesday May 5th 2010- (keyword- CAMRA)
YE Olde Albion in Rowhedge has been awarded the rural pub of the year award by the Colchester and district branch of the Campaign for Real Ale, or CAMRA.
Simon Taylor-Williams, who runs the pub with his wife Dawn, said he was thrilled to receive the award.
Yorkshire Evening Post- Tuesday May 4th 2010- (keyword- CAMRA)
Yorkshire pubs, breweries and ale lovers are celebrating one of Britain's most traditional beers - mild.
The Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA) is staging its annual National Mild Month throughout May.
Mild beers tend to be of low alcohol content, and are usually dark in colour due to the use of well-roasted malts or barley, and are conventionally less hopped than bitters.
Yahoo News- Friday Apr 30th 2010- (keyword- CAMRA)
Responding to a growing number of requests from beer buffs, breweries are beginning to produce more Mild and pubs are finding demand for the dark, malty ale is rising.
In a survey of 500 real ale drinkers across the UK, the group found that 64 percent of them had seen an increase in the number of Mild beers served at pubs and beer festivals over the past 5 years.
Paisley Daily Express online- Tuesday Apr 27th 2010- (keyword- CAMRA)
BUDDIES can escape election fever by heading along to the Town Hall to enjoy Scotland's biggest beer festival.
The Paisley festival is back for its 23rd year and volunteers are geared up and ready to serve pints to the thousands of thirsty punters expected to pour through the doors.
News.suite101.com- Sunday Apr 25th 2010- (keyword- CAMRA)
The Campaign for Real Ale (Camra) in the UK has declared May 2010 as Mild Month. From 1 May 2010, pubs will be encouraged to serve a mild along with their regular beers, and drinkers who are normally accustomed to bitters and lagers are being urged to give a mild a try.
Lincolnshire Echo online- Wednesday Apr 21st 2010- (keyword- CAMRA)
Beer drinkers say they are dismayed after Lincoln's only brewery left the city.
Cathedral Ales was set up in 2008, when Nottinghamshire based brewery Milestone reopened the historic Green Dragon pub on Broadgate.
But now the pub has been sold, and the new owners say they do not have the time to brew so production on the range of Lincoln themed tipples has been suspended indefinitely.
Isleofman.com- Wednesday Apr 21st 2010- (keyword- CAMRA)
The Isle of Man played host to over 700 Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA) members last weekend despite the complete ban of flights in UK airspace due to the cloud of ash from the erupting Icelandic volcano.
There were fears the ash cloud would affect the travel plans of delegates who had initially booked to fly to the Island from all over the United Kingdom.
Guardian.co.uk- Wednesday Apr 14th 2010- (keyword- CAMRA)
Recently, I have been spending a lot of time with the Good Pub Guide, CAMRA's Good Beer Guide, and beerintheevening.com. Not for the obvious reason - incipient alcoholism - but because someone bought me the Good Pub Guide as a present and I found it so odd and unsatisfying a guide that I felt compelled to dig deeper into the whole world of pub-tips publishing. Don't thank me. This is Word of Mouth, this is what we do.
Telegraph.co.uk- Friday Apr 9th 2010- (keyword- CAMRA)
It's early Tuesday evening in a trendy city centre bar in Leeds. North Bar's interior is fashionably minimalist and you'd think the bright young things would be sipping Manhattans or champagne. They're not. They're drinking beer.
A range of stainless steel taps offers rare beers from Bavaria, California and Flanders, while four hand pumps present a quartet of real ales from closer to home. The chalked-up menu has information on the ales including the beer miles: Abbeydale's Black Mass, a rich strong stout, is brewed a mere 30 miles away in Sheffield.
Yorkshire Post online- Tuesday Apr 6th 2010- (keyword- CAMRA)
A major new advertising campaign to promote Tetley's cask ale to the people of Leeds has been branded a "sick joke".
Billboards on roadside and bus shelters across the city show Tetley's Huntsman icon stating 'Join me' as Carlsberg UK have brought back the image to champion its classic real ale.
Basingstoke Gazette- Sunday Apr 4th 2010- (keyword- CAMRA)
PROTESTERS came out in force against plans to turn a bulldozed pub into a car park.
The Railway Inn, in Station Road, Whitchurch was torn down earlier this month, and owner of the land, Lochailort Investments Limited, has applied to Basingstoke and Deane Borough Council to turn the site into a temporary car park.
St Albans Review online- Tuesday Mar 30th 2010- (keyword- CAMRA)
A ST ALBANS pub has been chosen as the best in south Hertfordshire by the local branch of the Campaign for Real Ale (Camra).
The Six Bells in St Michael's Street, run by Jo Marrion and Patrick Remmington, has been named as Pub Of The Year by the campaign's South Hertfordshire branch.
Newbury Today online- Tuesday Mar 30th 2010- (keyword- CAMRA)
THE BELL at Aldworth - no stranger to awards - has scooped the Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA)'s West Berkshire Pub of the Year title for 2010.
The legendary Bell Lane watering hole has won the accolade numerous times, once even taking the national title.
Eat Out Magazine online- Friday Mar 26th 2010- (keyword- CAMRA)
TO COINCIDE WITH NATIONAL CASK ALE WEEK (MARCH 29TH- APRIL 5TH), CAMRA, THE CAMPAIGN FOR REAL ALE, WILL BE JOINING FORCES WITH BEER WRITER ROGER PROTZ TO HOST THE FIRST EVER ONLINE BEER TASTING IN A PUB USING THE SOCIAL MEDIA TOOL TWITTER.
Using Twitter, CAMRA has created 'RealAleLive', a dedicated feed for online beer tastings held in pubs.
The Publican.com- Thursday Mar 25th 2010- (keyword- CAMRA)
National Cask Ale Week is set to be celebrated in cyberspace as well as pubs across the country.
To mark the launch of the event - which runs from Monday until April 5 - CAMRA is holding what is believed to be the first ever online beer tasting in a pub.
The Sun online- Thursday Mar 25th 2010- (keyword- CAMRA)
CIDER drinkers and producers last night condemned the Government for hitting their brew with a huge tax increase - and warned it could devastate the historic industry.
Chancellor Alistair Darling announced duty on cider is to go up by ten per cent ABOVE inflation, equivalent to about 5p on a litre bottle.
Independent.co.uk- Wednesday Mar 24th 2010- (keyword- CAMRA)
Campaign groups today slammed the Government for "piling misery" on struggling pubs.
The Chancellor announced duty on beer, wine and spirits will increase as planned from midnight on Sunday. Alcohol duties will also increase by 2% above inflation for two further years from 2013.
Telegraph.co.uk- Wednesday Mar 24th 2010- (keyword- CAMRA)
The duty charged on cider will increase by 10pc above inflation from Sunday March 29. Camra, the Campaign for Real Ale, estimated that the price paid in pubs could rise by more than 20p a pint as a result.
"With today's huge increases in duty, consumers will now expect to pay over £3 for a pint of cider, compared with around £2.80 in our most recent survey," Camra said. The Treasury said the rise in cider duty would bring it "more into line with the duty rates in other alcohol products".
Wantage News online- Friday Mar 19th 2010
A GROVE brewer succeeded in his attempt to create the world's bitterest beer.
Laboratory reports commissioned by 58-year-old Peter Fowler, who runs the Pitstop Brewery, showed his eight per cent beer The Hop was more bitter than any other known beer in the world.
Oxford Mail- Tuesday Mar 16th 2010- (keyword- CAMRA)
BEER is to be brewed commercially in Abingdon for the first time in a decade.
A new brewery, Loose Cannon, is due to pour its first pints in May - the first beer to be produced in the town since the closure of the Morland brewery in 2000.
Eat Out Magazine online- Friday Mar 12th 2010- (keyword- CAMRA)
TRADITIONAL BEER STYLES SUCH AS THE 'MILD' HAVE MADE A MAJOR COMEBACK. JON HOWARD FROM THE CAMPAIGN FOR REAL ALE HAS CREATED A GUIDE TO ONE OF THE UK'S MOST HISTORIC BEER STYLES IN THE RUN UP TO NATIONAL MILD MONTH. HE REPORTS.
Not so long ago, Mild beers were an endangered style of real ale; consumers were put off by the misconceptions tagged to the word 'Mild', and as a consequence brewers were not producing them. For what was once recognised as the most popular beer style in the UK up until the 1950's, things were not going well.
The Scotsman online- Thursday Mar 11th 2010- (keyword- CAMRA)
As both the Scottish and Westminster parliaments debated the issue, the chair of the House of Commons health select committee, Kevin Barron, called for the measure to stem increasing rates of addiction and the multi-billion pound cost to society in terms of treatment and crime.
The Scotsman online- Tuesday Mar 9th 2010- (keyword- CAMRA)
THREE pubs are closing down in Scotland every week of the year, according to new figures that reveal the full impact of the recession and the growing trend towards drinking at home.
Licensed trade leaders are blaming soaring costs for landlords, the knock-on impact of the smoking ban and growing licensing industry red tape for the demise of so many locals.
York Press online- Monday Mar 8th 2010- (keyword- CAMRA)
ORGANISERS of the York Beer and Cider Festival are promising that this year's event will be the biggest ever.
The York branch of the Campaign For Real Ale has confirmed that the festival will again be held on Knavesmire this year, from September 16 to 18.
Lancashire Evening Post- Monday Mar 8th 2010- (keyword- CAMRA)
People are being invited on a day trip to visit a community pub and micro brewery.
It has been arranged by the Campaign for Real Ale for the Save the Bec Action Group in a bid to prevent demolition of the Becconsall Hotel, Station Road, Hesketh Bank.
Guardian.co.uk- Wednesday Mar 3rd 2010- (keyword- CAMRA)
Is it possible to brew a sarcastic beer? That is the question posed by BrewDog's Nanny State. When I first heard about it, I naively assumed that it was an honest attempt to produce a low-alcohol beer (0.5%), albeit one marketed with the company's usual irreverence. Now, I'm not so sure.
The Sun online- Tuesday Mar 2nd 2010- (keyword- CAMRA)
TETLEY'S cask ale is to be brewed outside of Yorkshire for the first time in nearly 200 YEARS.
Carlsberg yesterday said ale production will move to Wolverhampton when the iconic Tetley brewery in Leeds is closed next year.
Telegraph and Argus online- Monday Mar 1st 2010- (keyword- CAMRA)
Real ale enthusiasts have drunk Bradford Beer Festival dry for another year.
Bumper numbers poured through the doors of the three-day event at Saltaire's Victoria Hall, and organisers at Bradford CAMRA (Campaign for Real Ale) had more than 150 different types on offer, as well ciders, perries and fruit wines. Glasses were also raised to Saltaire's Wurlitzer, installed in the hall last year.
Plymouth Herald online- Friday Feb 26th 2010- (keyword- CAMRA)
THIRST the bad news: the headlines about the decline of the British pub are enough to drive you to drink.
Nationally, boozers have been closing at the rate of 52 a week.
A cocktail of factors has been blamed. First - and always - is the ever-rising tax on alcohol.
Telegraph.co.uk- Thursday Feb 25th 2010- (keyword- CAMRA)
Leave London by train on the Chiltern line and you'll find yourself amid the gentle, beech-clad hills of Buckinghamshire in less than half an hour.
It's a beautiful county - I was born and bred there - and chief among its many attributes is a spectacular range of traditional country pubs.
Worcester News online- Tuesday Feb 23rd 2010- (keyword- CAMRA)
ONE of Worcester's oldest pubs, which is regarded as having one of the best historical interiors in the country, has re-opened as a restaurant - which doesn't sell beer.
The unique Victorian features of the Paul Pry in the Butts have been gathering dust for the past two years with no prospective tenants being successful in taking over the pub.
Norwich Evening News online- Friday Feb 19th 2010- (keyword- CAMRA)
A pub on the outskirts of Norwich famed for its intact post-war interior has become the latest victim of the economic crisis.
While the outside of the Woodside pub in Thorpe St Andrew may not impress, the inside of the Thorpe St Andrew watering hole is virtually unchanged since it was built in the 1950s.
BBC.co.uk- Wednesday Feb 17th 2010- (keyword- CAMRA)
A Sheffield pub has been named the Campaign for Real Ale's national pub of the year for the second year running.
The Kelham Island Tavern, which was described by 2009 judges as a "small gem", was praised for its quality of beer and attention to detail.
Liverpool Echo online- Tuesday Feb 16th 2010- (keyword- CAMRA)
THIS week won't just see the return of any old beer festival. This is the Liverpool Beer Festival . . . probably the best beer festival in Britain.
The 2010 event - again organised by Liverpool's Campaign for Real Ale and held in the wonderfully-atmospheric surroundings of the crypt of the city's Metropolitan Cathedral - is the 30th to be held since 1974.
Liverpool Daily Post online- Monday Feb 15th 2010- (keyword- CAMRA)
PUBS should raise a toast to cask ale after an industry report revealed its value to the beer trade, says a leading brewer.
Wirral-born Stephen Crawley is managing director of Edinburgh-based Caledonian, which this week celebrates its second year as national sponsor of the Liverpool Beer Festival.
Cambridge News online- Monday Feb 14th 2010- (keyword- CAMRA)
THE death knell has sounded for another Cambridge pub.
The Fleur in Humberstone Road is to be demolished to make way for student flats.
The pub reopened as an upmarket bar and bistro in 2007 but its owners, property developers Chard Robinson, say it has struggled to make money.
Lincolnshire Echo online- Monday Feb 15th 2010- (keyword- CAMRA)
A pub landlady said she was "knocked for six" after the ale drinkers in Lincoln declared her tavern the city's best.
Members of the Campaign for Real Ale's Lincoln branch named the Struggler's Inn on Westgate as the cream of the crop in a hotly contested vote.
Essex Echo online- Friday Feb 12th 2010- (keyword- CAMRA)
THE Lamb and Lion, in Westcliff has been crowned south east Essex pub of the year by the Campaign for Real Ale.
More than 800 members from the south east Essex branch of the campaign group were asked to cast their votes and the pub, in Station Road, emerged the winner.
BBC.co.uk- Tuesday Feb 9th 2010- (keyword- CAMRA)
A derelict pub in Norwich has been bought by a Norfolk family who plan to turn it into an "eco-friendly" hostel.
The Ferry Boat Inn, next to the River Wensum on King Street, was a live music venue but has not been occupied for three years.
Timesonline.co.uk- Friday Feb 5th 2010- (keyword- CAMRA)
The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) has agreed to reopen its inquiry into the tenanted pub market to consider further evidence of anti-competitive behaviour by the big pub-owning companies (pubcos).
Camra — the Campaign for Real Ale — said today that it had agreed to puts its appeal to the Competition Appeal Tribunal, challenging the OFT's original conclusions, on hold until August pending a fresh public consultation.
BBC.co.uk- Friday Feb 5th 2010- (keyword- CAMRA)
The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) has reopened its investigation into so-called "beer ties" between pub companies and their tenant landlords.
The OFT said it was putting the case to consultation after the Campaign for Real Ale (Camra) applied for a review.
Forbes online- Friday Feb 5th 2010- (keyword- CAMRA)
The country that produced Shakespeare, The Clash and the Premier League has come up with a whole new contribution to world culture - the unbreakable pint glass.
The innovation - proudly unveiled by the government on Thursday - means that bleary-eyed beer drinkers won't be able to smash their glasses, use the shards as weapons and attack their best friends or worst enemies when they are too blotto to tell the difference.
Vancouver Sun online- Friday Feb 5th 2010- (keyword- CAMRA)
B.C. brewers are predicting a sharp increase in beer sales during the Vancouver 2010 Olympics. But beneath the short-term economic euphoria lies a simmering and hop-sided beer war in which the small microbreweries are duking it out with the beer giants.
Derby Telegraph online- Friday Feb 5th 2010- (keyword- CAMRA)
HUNDREDS of real ale lovers enjoyed a taste of Beer Odyssey, 99 Red Baboons and Frost Bite at the ninth Derby Winter Beer festival.
The event opened at the Assembly Rooms last night and featured 104 different ales, 14 ciders, four perries and a number of bottled Continental lagers.
Timesonline.co.uk- Thursday Feb 4th 2010- (keyword- CAMRA)
Camra, the pressure group, is raising funds for its legal fight for reform of the pub tie by auctioning, online, a bottle of House of Commons Scotch signed by the Prime Minister — the man most in the industry blame for tax rises that have been so damaging to the beer and pub trade.
Sheffield Star online- Thursday Feb 4th 2010- (keyword- CAMRA)
THIS year's Oakwood Beer Festival is going to be the biggest ever.
Organisers are describing the Rotherham event from Thursday February 18 to Saturday February 20 at Oakwood Technology College on Moorgate Road as "the largest handpump festival in the world".
Daily Post online- Tuesday Feb 2nd 2010- (keyword- CAMRA)
A POPULAR pub has scooped a real ale award.
Licensee Stephen Reece of the Kings Head in Llandudno was recently presented with the award for Pub of the Season 2009/2010 by the Abercolwyn branch of the Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA).
Yorkshire Post online- Wednesday Jan 27th 2010- (keyword- CAMRA)
ORGANISERS of one of Yorkshire's top beer festivals are confident of brewing up a treat after securing a venue for this year's event.
The Hull Real Ale and Cider Festival is returning to the Mortimer Suite at Hull City Hall after two years at Hull College's Horncastle Building.
Eat Out Magazine online- Friday Jan 22nd 2010 (keyword- CAMRA)
CAMRA, The Campaign for Real Ale, is currently seeking nominations from across the UK to find its National Club of the Year for 2011.
Under the rules of the competition, any club whose membership is open to all, and serves top quality real ale, is eligible to enter into the CAMRA Club of the Year competition.
Reading Chronicle online- Wednesday Jan 20th 2010- (keyword- CAMRA)
A BOARDED-UP town centre pub will re-open under new management after a facelift.
The Rising Sun pub in Forbury Road near Reading Station has been closed since last summer, but its owner, Henley-based pub chain Brakspear, confirmed that work is being done and it is looking for a new tenant.
Walesonline.co.uk- Wednesday Jan 20th 2010- (keyword- CAMRA)
ALL-YOU-CAN-DRINK deals and boozy games will disappear from pubs and clubs within weeks as the Government moves to crack down on binge drinking.
But the ban has been branded unfair by industry leaders, who said extra red tape could send recession-hit businesses to the wall.
Hartlepoolmail.co.uk- Thursday Jan 14th 2010- (keyword- CAMRA)
THE owner of Hartlepool's newest pub is managing to buck the trend after revealing his first few weeks have gone well.
When real ale enthusiast Peter Morgan was made redundant from his building society job it persuaded him to make his dream of owning a pub a reality.
Scotsman.com- Wednesday Jan 13th 2010- (keyword- CAMRA)
A NEW visitor attraction charting hundreds of years of beer-making history in Scotland's capital would be built under plans being drawn up by historians and enthusiasts.
Edinburgh's Old Town, which was once at the heart of the city's thriving brewing industry, has been earmarked for the venture, and the city council is already in talks over the plans.
Timesonline.co.uk- Sunday Jan 10th 2010- (keyword- CAMRA)
Save the pub or let it die? It's your shout...
With 50 pubs closing every week you would think that love affair was well and truly over. We are living through a time of unprecedented disaster for the public house, something that foreigners think is culturally and architecturally unique to Britain.
Cambridge-news.co.uk- Monday Jan 4th 2010- (keyword- CAMRA)
ONE of Cambridge's best-loved pubs could be bulldozed to make way for homes.
The Portland Arms, in the Mitcham's Corner area of the city, looks set to be demolished under plans to build dozens of flats on the corner of Milton Road and Victoria Road.
Worcesternews.co.uk- Monday Jan 4th 2010- (keyword- CAMRA)
A ONCE successful independent brewery has gone into liquidation.
The Blue Bear Brewery Ltd, on the outskirts of Kempsey, near Worcester, had until recently the capacity to produce up to 40 barrels a day, but is now being wound up by liquidators.
Derby Telegraph online- Friday Jan 1st 2010- (keyword- CAMRA)
Why are so many pubs being shut across the city and how can we save them?
IT was a reluctant decision that one former landlord Rick Brewster was forced to make when he was faced with soaring gas and electricity bills and fewer and fewer customers.