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SUPER SATURDAY 4 JULY SEES THE PULL OF THE PUB

Posted on July 8th, 2020 by Clyde Mooney
After lying dormant for 104 days, on 4 July Britain’s pubs burst back open in what became dubbed ‘Super Saturday’, and much of the nation popped in for a pint or ten as socially-starved revellers shrugged off crisis caution. Brits

UK PUBS IN TROUBLE AND ON THE ROPES

Posted on June 26th, 2020 by Clyde Mooney
Defying continued prohibition orders, some UK pubs have been secretly serving booze, and their begrudged patrons resorting to violence in defence of their perceived right to sip a pint. Australian pubs are mostly resuming trade, albeit subdued, but thousands of

BRITAIN’S WORST PUBLICAN

Posted on February 28th, 2020 by Clyde Mooney
Steve Cotton, proprietor of the Poltimore Arms, is the self-confessed least interested publican in Britain, making patrons serve themselves and having eyes only for his feral rescue cat named Hitler. The 59-year-old former engineer encountered opportunity to take over the

BELL INN NAMED UK PUB OF THE YEAR – AGAIN

Posted on February 17th, 2020 by Clyde Mooney
The annual UK pub awards by CAMRA has dubbed Britain’s Pub of the Year to be Bell Inn – held by the same family for 250 years.  The Campaign For Real Ale (CAMRA) has been ranking the best pubs across

PUSHING THE SAUSAGE: DON’T

Posted on November 4th, 2019 by Clyde Mooney
In contrast to Australia’s declining rates of teenage drinking, authorities in Denmark have released a clever and humorous message to combat the issue. Danish safe drinking group TrygFonden and the Danish Cancer Society commissioned the release (below), based around a

LONGEST PUB NAME REOPENS BESIDE SHORTEST

Posted on July 19th, 2019 by Clyde Mooney
Two record-holding British pubs have been unwittingly brought together, offering visitors to Stalybridge the pub with the longest name in the country beside the one with the shortest. In 1880, in Stalybridge, Greater Manchester, The Old Thirteenth Cheshire Astley Volunteer

UKrazy: GLASS INFRINGEMENTS & PATRIOT SENIORS

Posted on June 28th, 2019 by Clyde Mooney
Despite Australia’s archival links to the UK, pubs in Britain vary somewhat from here, if not the rest of the world – as seen in girl-on-girl action and cranky patriotic seniors. 36-year-old Sarah Lee has been reprimanded for assaulting 22-year-old

UKrazy: NAKED SINGALONGS & A BEER-THEME BURIAL

Posted on June 14th, 2019 by Clyde Mooney
Despite archival links to England and the United Kingdom, the pub world in the mother land varies somewhat from Australia, if not the rest of the world – as seen in naked singalongs and a Fosters-themed sarcophagus. Alastair Choat has

UK PUBS ROLL OUT TRAUMA KITS TO ‘CONTROL THE BLEED’

Posted on June 7th, 2019 by Clyde Mooney
Trauma kits to reduce ‘catastrophic’ bleeding have been rolled out to more than 50 licensed venues in Birmingham, aiming to give victims vital extra minutes in the case of serious injury. Birmingham has become the first city in the UK