18 h. ago Glassford Beer and Gin Festival raises £5k for community group

Two live music stages featured a wide range of acts with radio DJ and broadcaster Steve McKenna hosting the marquee and Avondale Radio taking over the village hall stage.

Economics

26 h. ago Gin, Rum & Vodka Festival 2025: £9 tickets now available across 29 UK cities

Sip your way through the UK’s top spirit-tasting festival with tickets now just £9 — from Manchester to Edinburgh, this gin-fuelled day out is shaking things up

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50 h. ago Veteran sailor, 100, recalls celebrating his 21st birthday at sea on VE Day

'Extra tots of rum'

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67 h. ago Keir Starmer announces trade deal with major country after Boris Johnson's failure

New trade deal will slash Indian tariffs on key products such as whisky, gin, and cosmetics, the government said after it struck a major agreement with Narendra Modi's government

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3 d. ago Why a gin and tonic really is the naffest drink of summer 2025 What's hot (and not) this week

What’s going up... and what’s going down— keep up with Joe Bromley’s weekly barometer

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4 d. ago There's a reason they used to call gin mother's ruin. After my third child, this 'classy' spirit slowly tightened its grip on me and I almost lost everything

It was the cry no woman wants to hear from her young child, especially in the dead of night: a helpless wail that meant only one thing: 'I need my mother.'

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4 d. ago The Pogues at Brixton Academy is a strange and beautiful tribute to Shane MacGowan

Avoiding staid respectability, this event – part of a short UK tour to celebrate the 40th anniversary of album ‘Rum Sodomy & the Lash’ – sees the audience singing along in bittersweet unison with the remaining band, younger musicians and guest vocalists

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5 d. ago Organist at landmark London church confesses to molesting 17

A musician who presided over one of the world's most celebrated chamber ensembles has avoided prison 'by a hair's breath' after he admitted sexually abusing a teenage boy a quarter of a century ago.

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6 d. ago Coronation Street star tackles male suicide in theatre show inspired by friend's tragic death

Former Coronation Street actor Joe Mallalieu is on tour with his play RUM - a blistering new play about masculinity and male suicide, violence and vulnerability

Events

6 d. ago Cocktail of the week: Beach House Falmouth’s the harbour – recipe | The good mixer

A sprightly, grapefruity number in the manner of a gin sour, and with a dash of Campari to give it an extra grown-up edgeI’m a huge fan of Campari, so am always keen to come up with new cocktails in which it can take centre stage, and this zingy little number is now a firm favourite. We also love working with local Cornish producers, and Caspyn’s dry gin is made in West Penwith, on the southern tip of the county.William Speed, co-owner, Beach House Falmouth, Cornwall Continue reading...

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6 d. ago ‘Irreplaceable habitat’: planning bill raises fears for England’s chalk streams

Environmentalists worry that the post-Brexit legislation will allow the destruction of rare and fragile ecosystems Walk along the gin-clear River Itchen in Hampshire and you might see otters, salmon, kingfishers and clouds of mayflies, all supported by the unique ecosystem of the chalk stream.The UK has no tropical rainforests or tigers; its wildlife is arguably more modest in appearance. But its chalk streams are some of the rarest habitats in the world – there are only 200, and England boasts 85% of them. If you look properly, they are as biodiverse and beautiful as any rainforest. Continue reading...

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1 week ago He drank six bottles of wine, a bottle of rum, and seven cans of booze over the weekend, I can't watch him kill himself any longer: BEL MOONEY replies

Dear Bel, I am in a relationship with a wonderful man who would do anything for me. Just one thing is driving a wedge between us - he drinks extremely heavily.

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2 w. ago Baker 'stabbed 7 colleagues to death after plying them with gin' at his birthday party

Bogart Ramirez, 32, is accused of knifing to death seven of his colleagues at a bakery in the Philippines after allegedly overhearing them plot to kill him while he slept

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2 w. ago Aldi's £20 Scottish gin named 'best in the country' at prestigious competition

The supermarket has added to its ever-growing cabinet of award-winning drinks at affordable prices.

Economics

3 w. ago Detective, 48, who downed gin on duty and lied to colleagues to dodge breathalyser test is found guilty of gross misconduct

Detective Constable Andrea Murphy-King, 48, had just started her 8am shift when she left the police station 'numerous' times to down the spirit.

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3 w. ago Ayrshire Hospice teams up with Isle of Cumbrae Distillers to launch new charity gin

The partnership sees the gin named after the hospice's original villa at 35 Racecourse Road in Ayr.

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3 w. ago ‘Apparently, he had a fist fight with King Charles’: the jawdropping life of Luca Prodan, Argentina’s punk god

He was a gin-swilling Scottish-Italian heroin addict who set Argentina’s music scene ablaze – baffling the junta, who would arrest his audiences. As a biopic looms, we look at the fast life and early death of the frontman still worshipped todayIn 1980, a tall, thin man landed in Buenos Aires airport, at the height of Argentina’s military dictatorship. His name was Luca Prodan, a Scottish-Italian rocker, and he had just finished the last of his methadone on the flight over. His arrival would soon send shockwaves through Argentina when he started a band called Sumo, acquainted the country with post-punk, and became a national legend who lives on, his music still earning hundreds of millions of streams. “When I saw Sumo in 1982,” says Prodan’s younger brother Andrea, “I thought, ‘This is more than just a band. This is like the Velvet Underground.’”But, despite Prodan’s strong ties to Europe and his high esteem in Argentina, he is barely known outside of the country. That looks set to c...

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3 w. ago Ben Shephard's London garden with bespoke gin bench is so grand it could be Kensington Palace

Ben Shephard's London garden with bespoke gin bench is so grand it could be Kensington Palace  hellomagazine.com

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3 w. ago Cocktail of the week: Demon, Wise & Partners’ brumble – recipe | The good mixer

A rum espresso martini topped with white and dark chocolate shavings to give it an extra Easter edgeCoffee and chocolate go together almost as well as Easter and chocolate, and the use of dark and white chocolate shavings in this broody number give the drink a nice point of contrast, as well as different aromas.Giorgia Di Stefano and Saira Khan, Demon, Wise & Partners, London EC2 Continue reading...

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