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If you were planning to watch one forgotten 1970s beer commercial today, make it this one. In its own way, this is up there with Major Benest.

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"This pub is available for tenancy." A Burton-on-Trent institution. Former Bass malt & bottle store. Small rooms & snugs. Draught Bass. Drinks can be taken to Indian restaurant next door. Filled cobs at weekends. Burton Bookworms meets every Wed. An iconic pub looking for the perfect fit.

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Every Trump tweet always comes across like a letter from Joe Maplin

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Just heard a clip of Nigel Kneale, saying Philip Purser claimed the 6x30m drama serial was clearly the highest form of television, the medium’s great dramatic innovation. I heartily agree. And it’s interesting that we’ve completely got rid of it. Like abandoning the three minute pop song.

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Heads up for HGV drivers wanting to go northwards from M4 jct 13 (Chieveley) towards Oxford on the weekends beginning 27 June and 4 July. Resurfacing work taking place. If you only want to go to Didcot that means an officially recommended detour of about 75 miles!

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This will be on cask at @skbeerfestival.bsky.social from Thursday this week.

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Just a quick reminder.

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Buster Grant gets underway as the 'New' Jennings Brewery goes live with its maiden brew 🍻 www.newsandstar.co.uk/news/2523395...

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Between June to September 1937 the #ScienceMuseum in London held a Television Exhibition. Receivers from eight manufacturers were on display side -by-side for some of the quarter of a million visitors to the exhibition. 10,000 booklets were sold which accompanied the exhibition.

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Ready to change your mind? How about a new @mojomagazine.bsky.social, and an exceptional cover story by @johnharris1969.bsky.social on Those Guys, paired with a CD, Feed Your Head Vol 2, 23 years in the making? Also in this most eclectic of MOJOs... ..> 1/3

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Brewers and importers: last chance to enter this year's International Beer Challenge! drinksretailingnews.co.uk/last-chance-...

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Obituary of Ken Don, a much-loved head brewer who kept the cask flame alight at Young's protzonbeer.co.uk/comments/202...

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“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.” Diary of Anne Frank January 13, 1943

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"If Aaron Copland, Charles Ives, George Gershwin and Duke Ellington were geniuses of American musical composition, then so was Wilson." Richard Williams, @theguardian.com authoritative context. #BrianWilson

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I’m at the Oh Me Oh My in Liverpool tonight talking Beatle people with the legend that is @frankcottrellboyce.bsky.social Come along !

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Remembering Françoise Hardy, who passed away one year ago today, MOJO’s Andrew Male selects the ten essential records by French pop’s existential romantic...

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🏏Free tickets for under 17s at Glamorgan 🆚 Sussex Sat evening. Would be good to see a decent crowd after last T20 was affected by clash with football.

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A wonderful archive fragment circa 1964. Ringo's mum was asked for an autograph. She didn't want to sign Elsie Starkey or Elsie Graves or Elsie Graves-Starkey and she probably wanted to reassure the applicant she was Ringo's mum, so she signed Mrs E. Starr, a name she never had.

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Watched 12 Angry Men again last night. Loved it as much as when I first saw it decades ago.

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Bar towel of the day. Not sure where I got this one from. I guess maybe it was tucked in with some beers from South America, where Skol is still a thing.

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Obituary of Martyn Cornell, scholar of beer and generous supporter of younger beer writers, who has left us all an unrivalled legacy. Seen here on the left with his brother Dave who runs Poppyland Brewery protzonbeer.co.uk/comments/202...

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Small but interesting exhibition on the history of Ladybird books at Reading's Museum of English Rural Life.

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Young’s beer is moving and things will never be the same again www.thedrinksbusiness.com/2025/06/youn... @teamdb.bsky.social @rogerprotz.bsky.social

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The wonderful brewing historian Martyn Cornell died suddenly yesterday at 72. He was a wonderful man, kind and gentle, and his writing transformed the way we understand beer and the people who made it.

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Loretta Swit, 'Hot Lips' Houlihan on 'MAS*H,' dies at 87 reut.rs/43jSTcG

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Sparkling obit for the real E J Thribb www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

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My old workmates the @thinkingdrinkers.bsky.social are off on a tandem ride from Land's End to John O'Groats to raise awareness of the plight of Britain's pubs. Look out for them, and if they come your way, hide! www.youtube.com/@TheThinking...

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It's our🎂10th birthday! In that time that's over 5,000 feature films, shorts & TV series. Talking of TV, that's over 6,000 episodes of 250 series. That's a lot of classic film & TV! We promise lots more to come! Thank you for the support, you lovely lot! #TPTV #LifeInThePastLane

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We are so sad today to hear the news of the death of one of our own - the great John Peters, who has presented programmes on Boom since we began. John was 75. Our thoughts are with his family. www.boomradiouk.com/farewell-joh...

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So sorry to hear that John Peters has died. Always looked forward to his weekend shows on @boomradio.co.uk, particularly the Vintage Charts. A radio legend.

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Mike Mercury and Supercar take a dangerous mission to South America... Premiere:10am 🏎️ SUPERCAR (1961) 'Amazonian Adventure' #TPTVsubtitles

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Let these be the last of many words. "Me, if I have a SNPA (Sierra Nevada Pale Ale) in front of me, I am really only concerned with the taste of the thing in front of me, not whether it has hit the bullseye on the shifting dart board of style." abetterbeerblog427.com/2025/05/22/y...

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Ive put together Chip Shop Pop, perfect early 70s radio-friendly pop: Cook and Greenaway, Tony Macaulay, John Carter, Lynsey de Paul…all the Denmark Street cats. All sound like top 10 hits but none of them were - heard maybe once at the time, then lost…until now! www.acerecords.co.uk/bob-stanley-...

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My latest beer reviews for Drinks Retailing.

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T&R Theakston has received funding from North Yorkshire Council for the installation of solar panels to provide energy to the near 200-year-old Masham brewery beertoday.co.uk/2025/05/20/t... #beer #beernews #brewery #brewerynews #solar #sustainability

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🏏😀 @willhawkes.bsky.social

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40 YEARS AGO TODAY: created by Jeremy Beadle and Phil 'The Collector' Swern, Pop The Question was Channel 4's own brand version of Pop Quiz, Chris Tarrant and David Hamilton as captains, and heavy on a Concentration-styled clue matching device.

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Really classy Daily Mirror front page on the 80th anniversary of VE Day. This Philip Zec celebrated cartoon was in the paper on this day in 1945

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