http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/oth...rom-calf.html#
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Very much a scare story. So we can reduce the number of deaths fror liver disease by a third. If that was from say six in ten to four in ten, saving 20% of all people from dying of liver disease that would be a very worthwhile achievement indeed. But we are talking about reducing the incidence from 11 in 100,000 to about 8 in 100,000, well, that's great for the 3 in 100,000 who benefit but they've got a far greater risk of dying of something else, like being run over. The public health benefit of saving drinkers (and despite what they make out it's a small minority of very heavy drinkers, bottle of spirits a day people, 1 in a 1000 of the entire population) from dying of liver disease is very limited. Sorting out the social costs of irresponsible drinking (eg town centres on a Saturday night) is far more important.
They had one of the scientists on the radio this morning, and he was saying something somewhat different to that article. I would have to say that the beeb were doing their very best to make that one into news, sadly the BBC news seems to be more based on getting page views than actually being unbiased these days.
I watch the South East news on BBC as strangely I find headline news of stabbings quite soothing as the details actually make it to air time. Shootings and murders in North London usually only ever get into the local newspapers. As for BBC in general, I wish they would just report the news rather than trying to make the news and actively participating in social engineering. We pay their wages and they try to tell us how to live our lives, sound familiar?.. I’d like to see their expense sheets!
South East news is always the same formula. You can have money on there being a shooting or some other awful crime, then some NHS story complete with heart rending footage of aggrieved patient, then some carry on at a local school involving teachers suspended or kids excluded. To leaven the mix they'll finish with some kid doing a sponsored swim of the Atlantic or something and if you're really lucky they'll have dug Michael Fish out of the woodwork to do the weather.
It's all very lazy and if you count up the number of people involved just presenting, let alone those who do the real work, phenomenally expensive.
This sounds hugely more exciting than BBC Spotlight South-West. A repetitious formula of local people whinging about the price of housing, water, car parking, fuel, moaning about the state of the roads, hospitals, schools, the closing of village shops, pubs and libraries, etc, farmers whining about badgers with TB and cows with foot & mouth costing them money, the fact that people dont buy local food, then driving off in their spanish/italian tractor or german car.
However, BBC Spotlight is far, far more professional than the totally amatuerish, often embarrassing and squirm-inducing production that is ITV westcountry, a bulletin presented by a seemingly never ending parade of Alan Partridge clones who don't appear to have a clue where they are or what they are supposed to be doing.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-12569011
Not beer related (unless the usual flood of puns appears), but I thought it was worth sharing so we can all keep abreast of things. Visits to The Lamb and Flag will never be the same again.
I wonder if they stick a cherry on the top. :D
Not sure if any of you have seen this before.
I believe the photo was taken here
http://www.pubsgalore.co.uk/pubs/8025/
by a colleague at work
We have seen that notice, but not at the pub PH has put up, unless there are more than one of them.
Not going to settle now till I find it!!
I saw this version in Durham a couple of years ago
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We are thinking the husband creche we saw was in Canterbury, but we didn't go into the pub so haven't got a record of it.
Seems it is spreading, I noticed identical sign outside the Heroes, Waterlooville today
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-devon-12609282
Anyone else done this? I know I have; though I only got as far as the front door. (and no jokes about me being that type of girl please)
Is it called Knokkers because it makes the players look like a right pair of tits? And if that table really is the length of two double-decker buses, either the bloke in the picture is a giant, or I’ve missed out on the introduction of tiny buses to the nation’s roads.
Anyone for bridge?
If you can help track down the bridge, witnessed the theft or know who stole it, phone Pc Armitage at Selby police station
this story on the same page as the bridge,
http://www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/8883...earoom/?ref=mr
I'd probably never even get as far as the Maltings if this opens.
That looks amazing. How wonderful, I could satisfy two of my interest in such an establishment! Unfortunately, York is far too far away from me.
could be a great start and finish to a visit to York :cheers:
This is great news. I get to the Sheffield Tap each visit to Sheffield, and sometimes a quick dash changing trains, and have been to the interesting building housing Euston Tap too.
Will be in York later this month so will see what is happening, and again when their beer festival is on in September, so if they open on time should manage a visit then.:)
Ok, it's not today's random news, but it was news (to me) last night.
Along with the unvisited Brewery Tap, another reason to revisit Ipswich.
Btw, anyone heading there from London should note potential savings by split-ticketing via Manningtree (without changing train).
St Jude's
Brewery Tavern
"The cost of a pint has DOUBLED in the last 20 years from £1.40 to nearly £3. "
Howls of outrage, all Labour's fault, blame the bankers, greedy brewers, or whatever the Bun's agenda is today.
They could have said the in the previous 20 years to that a pint went up from around 1/9d to £1.40, near a 20 fold increase. Far more impressive.