6 h. ago Heston Blumenthal's warning over fat jabs' 'really big' threat to struggling pubs

Star chef and pub owner Heston Blumenthal has spoken passionately about the importance of pubs in tackling loneliness, and the challenge from weight loss drugs

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7 h. ago Heston Blumenthal warns business rates and VAT are killing pubs and must be reformed

Celebrity chef Heston Blumenthal has urged Labour to prevent a wave of pub closures at the upcoming Budget.

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67 h. ago Scotland needs nightlife minister to save struggling pubs and clubs, industry says

Trade chiefs warn Covid shutdowns, spiralling energy costs and the decline of city centres as well as tax rises have seen venues shed thousands of jobs.

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8 d. ago Disaster at Sea: The Piper Alpha Story review – this oil rig horror is up there with Chornobyl

Shocking and superb, this documentary is packed with terrifying details of the notorious 1988 catastrophe, from the fire that could be seen from 120 miles away to the squashed tomatoesOn the evening of 6 July 1988, the Piper Alpha oil production platform in the North Sea suffered a catastrophic gas explosion, followed by a conflagration that destroyed the structure; 167 people were killed, and almost all the physical evidence of what had occurred became charred debris, lost to the waves. After the disaster, a public inquiry struggled to form a complete picture of the event, for reasons that also make it a hard subject for documentary-makers.Disaster at Sea: The Piper Alpha Story copes with the challenge superbly, leaning heavily on survivor testimony – 61 men escaped from the rig – and combining it with a simple 2D diagram of the platform’s layout to give us the fullest picture possible. It doesn’t have the special-effects budget that would be required to simulate the ferocity of th...

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1 week ago BrewDog is 'struggling to be relevant' says bar chain that axed them

Loungers, a 300-strong bar chain, removed the Scottish group's products from sale two years ago after deciding it was struggling to stay relevant.

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1 week ago Bake Off judge Prue Leith takes aim at waiter's 'lectures' which ruined romantic meal

Dame Prue Leith, who replaced Mary Berry on The Great British Bake Off in 2017, wanted to eat fish and chips at "what used to be a good pub" but struggled to find it on the menu

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2 w. ago Fat jab price soars after Trump threat: Cost of Mounjaro up 170% as US President demands UK pay more

Manufacturer Lilly said it plans to raise the wholesale price from next month to bring it into line with 'other developed countries'.

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last month Loni Anderson, star of 1980s sitcom WKRP in Cincinnati, dies aged 79

Actor died at a Los Angeles hospital after a ‘prolonged’ illness, days before her 80th birthday, her publicist saysLoni Anderson, who played a struggling radio station’s empowered receptionist on the hit TV comedy WKRP in Cincinnati, died on Sunday, just days before her 80th birthday.Anderson died at a Los Angeles hospital following a “prolonged” illness, said her longtime publicist, Cheryl J Kagan. Continue reading...

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