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The Campaign for Real Ale has previously said that pubs are being “lost forever to conversion or demolition as developers look to cash in on the desirable locations and unique architecture of pubs and social clubs”.The British Beer and Pub Association and UKHospitality have also campaigned against pub closures, with both largely blaming tax rises and other costs.Allen Simpson, chief executive of UKHospitality, said: “The biggest issue facing hospitality businesses is costs like VAT and business rates pushing pubs out of business in the first place.”Speaking to the ‘s Today programme, he said: “The reality is it’s quite difficult to…

Formula 1 says farewell to the Dutch Grand Prix this weekend with the final event at Zandvoort before it drops off the calendar.Orange smoke has hung in the air of the seaside venue since it returned to the schedule in 2021 after a 36-year absence, with sell-out crowds overwhelmingly supporting Red Bull’s Max Verstappen.Despite its popularity, organisers have not been able to make the event work financially and have decided not to continue hosting F1.Before Zandvoort signs off, we take a look back at a selection of images from the Dutch Grand Prix, which was first run as an F1…

She said she was told this was normal and was not shown a mirror until the procedure was over.”When she finally gave me the mirror, my first thought was ‘oh my goodness, I’ve just been mutilated. I just need to get out of here’,” she said.Joanne said that by the time she arrived home, the areas beneath her eyes looked like “two tree trunks”.She said she stayed at home for two weeks, asked her husband to do the school run and avoided socialising. She also said the experience affected her confidence at work and left her embarrassed when explaining it…

More than 200 people have attended an emotional vigil in Cambridge to remember the life of Jason Arday. The former Cambridge professor was found dead at an address in Battersea, south London, on Friday afternoon.Arday, 41, resigned as a professor of sociology of education after allegations of plagiarism and questions about some of his achievements. He had denied the claims, and his family have since said the “campaign of misinformation” was too much for him. Shahnaaz Khan, a PhD student at the Faculty of Education, said: “Look around you today, talk to someone you don’t know and hold their pain…

Amid the Wellington fallout, Brook led England to important ODI and T20 series wins in Sri Lanka, as well as the semi-finals of the World Cup that followed. His own form was superb. In the maelstrom, he drew on an experience from three years earlier.In 2023, his only season in the pressure cooker of the Indian Premier League (IPL), Brook struggled. After his one significant score for Sunrisers Hyderabad – admittedly an unbeaten century – he said he was glad to “shut up” supporters that had been “slagging me off”.”I got into a little bit of a rabbit hole with…

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Reform will ban foreign nationals, including those with EU settled status, from claiming almost all forms of welfare. Robert Jenrick revealed a Reform UK government would redesign welfare and save over £50billion a year by scrapping benefits.The Reform UK Shadow Chancellor said: “Forcing British workers to pay for the benefits of foreigners is not just economically illiterate but plain immoral. People are more than happy to support their neighbours in hard times, but the British taxpayer cannot afford to subsidise everyone on the planet, especially those who have not paid in.”The public have been crying out for this change for…

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In the documentary, the spoke to Zoe, not her real name, who was sexually harassed on a bus as she travelled through the city centre.Zoe, who is in her 20s, says the man who sexually harassed her was possibly Middle Eastern but she challenges those who link Glasgow’s sexual crimes to race.She says it is terrifying how often these attacks are happening to women but is deeply sceptical of what the anti-immigration groups say motivates them to take to the streets.”They say it’s about protecting women and children, but it’s not,” Zoe says.”It’s about being racist, causing public disorder, and…

The worldwide buzz is far from the norm, and certainly a far cry from the most recent league meeting between the duo on 22 March, 2002 – when goals from Scott Young, Peter Thorne and Danny Gabbidon earned the Bluebirds a 3-2 victory over the Red Dragons.Just shy of 16,000 supporters were at Ninian Park on that occasion, and nearly double that amount will be in attendance at Cardiff City Stadium this time around, such is the anticipation for the fixture.The game will also be beamed to fans around the world, particularly in North America where Wrexham have become a…