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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.