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July 1 — September 30, 2008

4September 30, 2008: Wiltshire landlord speaks out against actions of huge brewery chains
4September 29, 2008: Seven pubs in the Grantham area sign up to CAMRA's LocAle scheme
4September 27, 2008: The Newbold Comyn Arms, Leamington, launches a new charity beer to mark its Good Beer Guide debut
4September 26, 2008: The North West Evening Mail marks the closure of Healeys pub in Barrow
4September 25, 2008: Roger Protz profiles Fuller's master cellarman of the year
4September 25, 2008: The Press and Journal previews the Inverness Real Ale Festival
4September 22, 2008: The Press, York, on the city's 11 hostelries in the new Good Beer Guide
4September 22, 2008: Adnams' carbon neutral East Green is launched at The Wheatsheaf, Horsell
4September 21, 2008: The campaign to save a Melksham pub from being converted into a home for the elderly
4September 19, 2008: Alastair Gilmour on the asuccess of the Sun at Swalwell
4September 18, 2008: 3,600 pints sunk at the Booze on the Ouse St Ive Beer Festival
4September 18, 2008: The Shropshire Star interiews Dave Goldingay of the Ironbridge Brewery
4September 17, 2008: The Crown, Worthington, is named Wigan CAMRA pub of the year
4September 16, 2008: The first ever beer festival is staged at Cornwall's Eden Project
4September 13, 2008: Pubs across Teesside feature in the new Good Beer Guide
4September 13, 2008: The Liverpool Daily Post celebrates its local pubs in the new Good Beer Guide
4September 12, 2008: Is the pub facing extinction? asks Roger Protz in The Independent
4September 12, 2008: Joe Sixpack sees Budweiser jump on the US ale bandwagon
4September 11, 2008: Worcestershire's new entries in the 2009 Good Beer Guide
4September 11, 2008: Budvar chief executive Tony Jennings in Europe's new beer order
4September 11, 2008: Roger Protz sees plenty to be optimistic about in the beer and pub industries
4August 29, 2008: Doom and gloom? Not for North East brewers, writes Alastair Gilmour in The Journal
4August 29, 2008: The Publican heralds the return of Cask Beer Week for 2009
4August 29, 2008: The St Neots Town Crier previews the St Ives Beer
Festival
4August 29, 2008: Joe Sixpack looks at the recent history of autumnal pumpkin ales
4August 28, 2008: Where would beer be without women? asks Roger Protz in the Morning Advertiser
4August 25, 2008: Vancouver's home to the coolest of brewpubs, writes Adam McDowell of the Canwest News Service
4August 25, 2008: The Atlanta Journal Constitution previews the top five European beer festivals
4August 24, 2008: The Bristol Evening Post on the fight to stop Enterprise selling a pub with a restrictive covenant
4August 22, 2008: Pizza flavoured beer is no pie in the sky dream, writes Joe Sixpack
4August 21, 2008: Mark Pearson, of the Peterborough Evening Telegraph, joins the judges at the Peterborough Beer Festival
4August 15, 2008: Peterborough Today looks forward to next week's major beer festival
4August 15, 2008: Why isn't the national media interested in reporting good news from the beer industry? asks Roger Protz
4August 14, 2008: The Economist casts a specialist eye over the British real ale scene
4August 14, 2008: Jason Foster discoveres that Vancouver has a 'surprisingly good beer scene'
4August 13, 2008: The Westmorland Gazette celebrates Hawkshead Brewery's success at the Great British Beer Festival
4August 13, 2008: Attendance at the Great British Beer Festival was down about 10%, the Morning Advertiser resports
4August 11, 2008: Sales are buoyant for Jarrow Brewery, despite the credit crunch, reports the Shields Gazette
4August 8, 2008: Joe Sixpack gets on his bike and cycles to the 'Woodstock of beer
4August 7, 2008: BBC News Online talks to some optimistic brewers at the Great British Beer Festival
4August 7, 2008: Did Cains take on too much too soon, asks Paul Charity in the Morning Advertiser
4August 7, 2008: Roger Protz profiles Jon Pilling, enthusiastic owner of the North Cotswold Brewery
4August 6, 2008: The Bollington Brewery Company is launched at the Vale Inn, Bollington
4August 6, 2008: The AFP news aency takes a tour around the Great British Beer Festival
4August 6, 2008: The Express and Star reviews the latest issue of Stourbridge and Dudley's CAMRA's Ales and Tales magazine
4August 5, 2008: Melissa Cole picks her top 10 beers at the Great British Beer Festival
4August 5, 2008: The Beacon Hotel, Sedgley, is named West Midlands pub of the year
4August 4, 2008: The Green Ayre in Lancaster has been voted pub of the season by local CAMRA members
4August 2, 2008: The Vancouver Sun explores beer culture in the province of Victoria
4August 1, 2008: Alastair Gilmour, of The Journal, profiles the Captain Cook Brewery and Consett Ale Works
4August 1, 2008: The Aberdeen Press and Journal looks at how the credit cruch is affecting Scottish brewers and drinkers
4August 1, 2008: Roger Protz cuts the ribbon at the new Triple fff brewhouse in Hampshire
4July 28, 2008: The Scotsman on local pubs and why we lose them at our peril
4July 25, 2008: The Rat and Ratchet, Huddersfield, is named CAMRA Yorkshire cider pub of the year
4July 24, 2008: Cask beer sales are looking good, while the premium lager market falters, reports Roger Protz in the Morning Advertiser
4July 24, 2008: Morning Advertiser editor Andrew Pring can't believe what he reads in the KPMG report on responsible drinking
4July 23, 2008: Hertfordshire brewer and pub operator McMullen blames a fall in profits on the smoking ban and bad weather, reports the Morning Adveriser
4July 22, 2007: The Federation of Small Business gets behind the Fair Pint campaign, reports the Morning Advertiser
4July 18, 2008: The licensee selling beer at 89p a pint — with a 2p profit margin
4July 18, 2008: The big deal has left Philadephia drinkers just shrugging their shoulders and taking another sip of Bud
4July 17, 2008: Pub trade down? Not in the hostelries Roger Protz in frequenting!
4July 12, 2008: An exhibition highlighting the splendour of Herefordshire pubs is taking to the road
4July 11, 2008: Alastair Gilmour visits the Surtees Arms in Ferryhill, County Durham
4July 10, 2008: Roger Protz pays tribute to Steve Westby and his LocAle concept
4July 9, 2008: Former pubs are becoming restaurants, social clubs and even churches, reports The Independent
4July 7, 2008: Crain's Manchester Business profiles the Dunham Massey Brewing Company
4July 6, 2008: Real ale sales are rising in Norfolk, reports the Norwich Evening News
4July 5, 2008: The Hereford Times visits the Hereford Beer and Cider Festival
4July 4, 2008: Roger Protz highlights the co-operation between firms in the brewing trade
4July 3, 2008: The chairman of the Parliamentary pubco inquiry tells the Morning Advertiser he has no other agenda than to find the truth
4July 3, 2008: The Vancouver Sun website previews the Canada Cup beer festival
4July 3, 2008: The beer writer of the Marlborough Express, New Zealand, on the cult of Wychwood Hobgoblin
4July 1, 2008: The smoking ban has not been good for Essex and Suffolk pubs says EADT24
4July 1, 2008: Bruno Waterfield reflects on the future of the British pub in his Daily Telegraph blog
4July 1, 2008: The Nags Head, in Eastfield, Peterborough, is the latest pub in the area to come under threat of closure