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Nice obit.

Still not enough to pay for all his match tickets until its Warrington's year.

CAMRA have announced the finalists for club of the year. Haydock Reading Room, St Helens A warm and welcoming place for all who like a well-maintained pint with good company, since 1884. Three cask beers are available, with at least one from a local brewery. The club hosts live music and other events for the community over weekends. Kettering Midland Band Social Club The club has plenty of space to accommodate guests, with a long public bar, sunken lounge area, a separate games area, and a large concert room for events. Five guest beers from independent breweries are on the bar, including one dark beer. Bar manager David Bellamy has previously won Club Mirror’s Bar Manager of the Year. The club actively strives to entertain its community with a busy social diary and regular organised trips. Marden Village Club, Kent This grade II listed community hub won the Club of the Year title in both 2022 and 2023. It boasts six cask beers at the bar, generally from local microbreweries, and with one dark beer always available. Snooker and darts teams are very poplar, and there are regular bingo nights. Firs Club, Codsall A comfortably furnished private club with its own on-site microbrewery, the Firs Club’s highlight of the year is its November beer festival, which is a great showcase for its own brews. At the bar there are five locally-sourced changing cask beers, usually including one mild. Guests can enjoy a pint in the bar area, relax in the quiet lounge, play pool and darts in the separate sports lounge, or play snooker upstairs.

Philomena Cunk on transport. “Trains use up less resources than other forms of transport because they tend to be canceled, which is better for the planet. This means people can get on buses instead, and take up space on the roads, which encourages more people to leave their cars at home and get the train, which they can’t, because there isn’t one.”

Seems to be making a bit of a comeback around these parts, small independents and micro breweries seem to be putting out a "traditional" bitter. Seen it on a few bars.

The Wayfarer is a decent place, it has been doing the Magic Weekend Beer Festival for a few years now. You can still use the Windmill as a pub if you remain around the bar area though it has limited space, in summer you can (could maybe) just have a drink in the beer garden. Parbold is screaming out for a micro pub but rental/purchase costs of a property could be prohibitive.

Charity shops are there to raise money for the charity they are supporting. If they were not then they would just be a second hand shop.

Breweries run on what is probably the stupidest business model going. If a landlord sells more of their beer they charge the landlord more for the pleasure of selling it.

The tenant is paying the brewery an excessive rent for the 'honour' of tennanting the breweries pub. So his prices have to reflect this for him to make a profit. The free house could have a much lower rent or mortgage to pay or may even own the building they are in, allowing more flexibility on pricing.

We have a charity superstore, at first they took over the redundant Debenhams store but have now moved into the old Wilko store. Items tend to be seconds and end of line items from major retailers rather than donations from the public.

Research and experience tells them someone will pay that price at some point, if they get it wrong they will adjust prices as appropriate. Why sell something for a fiver if someone will pay fifty. Also just make them an offer, the price tag is only an invitation to treat.

There seems to be a critical mass that when reached the vultures swoop.

The destruction of the UK's brewing industry moves on at a pace.

Went to Harlow Carr this morning and this very obliging fella came up real close, suspect people have been feeding him.