Posts by: Timothy Hampson

MPs back preferential tax rates for draught beer

MPs supported CAMRA’s proposal for a preferential rate of duty for draught beer during a Parliamentary debate on 24 March. The lawmakers were debating...

St Albans beer and cider festival supports pubs

Plans are continuing for this year’s St Albans Beer Festival, but it will be held in the city’s pubs instead of its home for 24 years the Arena venue....

Cask is back, so back cask

A new campaign is calling on beer drinkers to back British brewing and pubs and opt for a pint of fresh cask beer from a local independent brewery whe...

European campaigning steps up a gear

Like many other organisations, however, EBCU plans continue to be restricted by further waves of the pandemic, write Ray Turpie. Our Anniversary Year...

Licensees face mental health crisis

The Campaign for Pubs has written to the Prime Minister urging him to understand the looming financial and mental health crisis facing the nation’s li...

Tally ho for the Fox & Hounds

Two Hertfordshire licensees have come to the aid of local residents by turning part of their pub into a shop. Bianca and James Rix (above) have opened...

Pomona award nominations sought

Do you know of an outstanding achievement by a person, group, organisation, idea or concept (where a recipient can be identified) that has made an out...

Cask ale – the fight goes on

The future of real ale demands our continued vigilance, writes Roger Protz Some years ago a top man at a national brewery solemnly told me that all th...

Oxford CAMRA pledges to fight Lamb and Flag closure

The shock news that one of Oxford’s best-known real ale pubs could remain closed permanently is spreading far beyond the city as the local branch vows...

Small brewers ask PM for urgent help

A brewery has stopped producing ale after 30 years in the town it is named after because of the “catastrophic impact” of the coronavirus pandemic. It...


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