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 young Dane named Mads and his struggle with peer-group pressure. In a very European […]
The NSW-born Tooheys brewing has notched up 150 years in business, throwing parties around the state celebrating all its brands – from Old to New and beyond. On 7 September 1869, two Irish-Australian brothers, John and James Toohey, obtained their brewing license and began production at the first Tooheys Brewery, in Darling Harbour. Their first
The 2019 study by Roy Morgan on the drinking habits of Australians reports continued decline in regular consumption but further clarity for licensed venues and retailers. Roy Morgan’s Alcohol Consumption Currency Report questioned 15,000+ consumers, to continue the company’s statistical analysis of the liquor landscape across Australia. The Report notes that two-thirds (66.3 per cent)
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 Rifleman Corps Inn opened its doors. After generations of trade, in 1995 it was formally
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 a Miss England finalist fracas, and the ‘Newlyn knockout’ house specialty. The height of summer, July has already kept British pubs and emergency services busy. Vivian Carroll, proprietor of Judge
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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 makeup artist Raegan Heggie in Harry’s Bar in Ayr. Heggie was traversing through the crowded
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 been waging a campaign to retain operation of the Coach & Horses in Soho, which
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 to adopt a ‘control the bleed’ initiative – intended to reduce deaths by violent injury,
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A major consumer survey has found Australia and English-speaking countries at the top of the list for prolific boozing. The eighth annual report from the Global Drug Survey, claiming to be the largest drug survey in the world, examined over 123,814 people in 36 countries worldwide, between 29 October and 30 December 2018. Around 5,400
Statistics show pubs continue to rapidly close all over the UK, but some forge on through economies of lack of scale, and innovation continues to thrive in the form of London’s first nudist pub. The great British pub owes much of its modern presence to age-old laws allowing private dwellings to be operated as a
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