Prince of Wales will help regenerate 50 villages using pubs as community 'hubs'
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You watch how many country pubs will change their name to ' The Prince of Wales' now to get backing - the more daring might go for 'The King Charles'
Don't they choose their name when they are crowned? Also shouldn't it be The King William, surely Charley will never warm that seat?
one pub has already changed it's name in honour of Charles:-
http://www.pubsgalore.co.uk/pubs/10856/
I fear where this thread may now go :)
Downwards with any luck. :p
http://www.pubsgalore.co.uk/pubs/5496/
Just add Ears. :eek:
OK I'll play -----
http://www.pubsgalore.co.uk/pubs/37684/
That one is about 5 minutes walk from where I am sat and I still had no idea that it had reopened and changed its name. I'll send Dave to review it.
I'm glad you confirmed that I was actually thinking I had made it up. What is it with heads of churches?
And for today, Council asks pubs to break the law.
I was in the Tesco Metro in Hampstead and a girl that had been drinking outside the Flask pub and looked about 25 was in front of me in the queue. She walked up to Bindi the cashier and asked for 10 Marlboro Lights and was asked for ID. She said that she was 24 and joked that she was glad she had her passport on her and handed it over. The cashier handed it back and denied service as it had expired the month before. I was very upset as I was next and wasn’t challenged at all, and I had my valid driving license on me!
In an earlier more enlightened time this is what our Charley would have wanted http://www.pubsgalore.co.uk/pubs/54623/
Or possibly this one http://www.pubsgalore.co.uk/pubs/23476/ :eek:
Bizarelly it makes sense in some ways as you can give away an expired id as useless. At which point someone who is keen may try and change the photo (although I wouldn't want to try on a current passport). In this case though it sounds like a jobsworth cap award is in order.
I think knocking up a fake passport in order to legally purchase a packet of 10 Marlboro Lights is a bit extreme. Surely if the intention was to pass herself off as someone on forged documentation she would have gone for a packet of 20 at least and made it all worthwhile.
As I say jobsworth.
The trouble is though, if I am reading it right they have been told that if they do not check a valid Id (which is some half arsed list they have been given) they will lose their licence. Whereas before I think you could give a reasonable effort defence, which would mean an out of date passport would be fine.
I know from when I used to work behind a counter we used to be worried about random tests where they would get kids to come in and try and buy some ciggy's.
Just another sample of the recent legislative system that tries to legislate for everything and offer no discrimination. I swear if the Government could replace us with robots they would.
Well not pub news, but I just feel that the Sussex Police Spokesman deserves an award:
Photos seized by police in Lewes
The whole thing looks like a series of cock-ups.
And more random news, possibly on topic.
Funny that, I've never thought of meself as aeconomic force:confused::drinkup::drinkup:
On BBC South this morning, the village of Shittole [sp?]in Dorset has replaced it's village name road sign with a 1.5 ton one made of Purbeck stone, reason was old signs kept being stolen
Maybe collectors getting the set with Piddlehinton et al :D
No web link as yet
Its actually called Shitterton although the more polite villagers refer to the village as Sitterton. Fortunately the folk of this village in Austria aren't as fussy! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fucking,_Austria
Mean while we have Wyre Piddle, Worcs.
All I can say is Pratt's Bottom!
...and the perennially amusing German town: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wankum
It was good fun listening to them corpse on the Today program. They were doing the newspapers and covering the Telegraph report on Shitterton. Sadly they don't have that excerpt as a sound bite, but it is at about 1:45 in the full running order if someone is really bored.
No-one at the Beeb seems to batter an eyelid when Danny Shittu gets a mention on Match of teh Day!
Here's the BBC South Tv link http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-dorset-10733442
Or German footballer Stephan Kuntz. I remember a clasic piece of commentary that went something like ' And here come the Germans - Kuntz'. If it wasn't David Coleman it should have been.
Those cheeky chaps at Brewdog are at it again.
Have to hand it to them; come up with an idea guaranteed to wind-up easily excitable tabloid journalists = lots of lovely free publicity.
I've never wanted a tattoo, but you know...