Posts by: Timothy Hampson
Double celebration for returning festival
After two years away, St Albans Beer & Cider Festival returns to the Alban Arena in 2022 for the 25th time. With this year also marking 50 years since...
Innovation secures top prize for hop grower
Will Kirby and Henry Smith (pictured) of Brook House Hops in Herefordshire have won Hop Farmer of the Year crown at the Royal Three Counties Food & Fa...
Silver Birch celebrates Platinum Jubilee
It has been more than 60 years since a tree which gave a Wythenshawe, Manchester pub its name was planted at the venue. Now that original tree at Jose...
Minister opens pub microbrewery
Stratford upon Avon MP and secretary of state for education Nadhim Zahawi officially opened the microbrewery created by licensees Gaynor and Antony Th...
Branch lobbies MP for a pubs’ support packageÂ
Pub-goers and beer drinkers in Northamptonshire are asking a local MP to fight for help for pubs facing the soaring cost of energy, which threaten to...
Government protects historic pubs
Eleven remarkable pubs have been given extra planning protections following a unique collaboration between the Campaign and Historic England. Whiteloc...
Homebrew competition debuts at our top fest
CAMRA’s flagship beer festival will host a new competition this year to find the best home-brewed beer in the UK. In recognition that some of the best...
Ale trailers urged not to miss flagship festival
Cask Marque is urging its 80,000 ale trailers to make CAMRA’s Great British Beer Festival (GBBF) an “unmissable” stop in their travels this summer. Th...
Rules must be relaxed to help save urban pubs
Community-owned pubs champion, the Plunkett Foundation, has called for relaxed rules so groups can buy urban locals. Foundation research revealed impr...
Farmer’s Shire horse charity challenge
Jamie Alcock, a farmer who drove his Shire horses from his Gloucestershire farm to Elgin in Scotland in 2021 is now taking on a second charity challen...
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