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Pub Saving Award success after decade-long fight

A community, which raised more than £350,000 to save the Rising Sun in Woodcroft, Chepstow, has won CAMRA’s 2023 Pub Saving Award.  The award recognis...

Tap Social seeks cash for growth

Oxford-brewer Tap Social Movement has launched a crowdfunding campaign to support its next growth stage and enable it to continue offering life-changi...

Branch celebrates 50 years of campaigning

Half a century of campaigning for local pubs and breweries has been marked by CAMRA’s Aylesbury Vale and Wycombe branch. The first meeting of CAMRA in...

50 years in top guide celebrated

The Campaign’s South Oxfordshire branch celebrated the launch of the 2024 Good Beer Guide with a presentation to the Leathern Bottle, Lewknor, which n...

Hall effect still working well after 40 years at Oxford pub

Real ale campaigners have joined the tributes to Andrew and Debbie Hall who celebrate 40 years running the Rose & Crown in Oxford. The couple — who ru...

Lamb and Flag flies again

Oxford’s historic Lamb & Flag is to reopen as a community-owned pub, following an agreement between St John’s College and the Inklings Group. The Lamb...

Historic Oxford pub to reopen as a community venture

Oxford’s historic Lamb & Flag is to reopen as a community owned pub following an agreement between St John’s College and the Inklings Group. The Lamb...

A beer at the races returns

Thoroughbred horses and ales are on the card at the Ascot Beer Festival running on 1-2 October. This  popular annual event, where all the bars are run...

Brewer seeks money for more pubs

Windsor & Eton brewery has launched its first equity crowdfunding campaign to raise money for a major extension to its pub and bar estate. As with mos...

From pop-up bar to pub tenants

When Katy Appleby and Di Humphrey opened a pop-up pub in the middle of a global pandemic last July, people thought they were slightly unhinged. Little...


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