Dorset Police are urging pubs and clubs in Weymouth to work together to eliminate alcohol-fuelled violence. The Home Office has given the area £30,000 to to tackle the problem. Despite a year-on-year reduction in violent crime in the town, police said there was still a problem with alcohol-related crime and disorder - BBC
Over 100 British lawmakers (MPs) have called on the government to axe plans to increase beer tax in its 2009-10 Budget amid fears thousands of jobs could be lost through pub closures - Reuters
A man has been charged with stabbing another man to death at a pub in Wolverhampton. Andrew Diack, 29, was found injured at the Flying Dutchman pub in Claverley Drive, Warstones, in the early hours of Saturday. He died later in hospital - BBC
The harshest winter in 20 years is set to continue with blizzards sweeping across the country. Parts of Devon are already flooded. A worker at the King Of Prussia pub in Kingsbridge said: 'The water is at calf level behind the bar. The manholes outside are like fountains'- Metro
A pub landlord has won his case against council officials who told him to pull down a marquee which is used by footballers as a changing room. Ian Miller spent £400 on the marquee so that his pub's Sunday league teams had somewhere dry to get changed and have a drink and food after their matches.The marquee was put up on the side of the Village Tavern pub, in Joiners Square, and Mr Miller received no complaints about it from neighbours - The Sentinel