The British pub is safer than a supermarket aisle, yet now it faces oblivion writes Young’s pubs CEO

Patrick Dardis, Chief Executive of Young’s Pubs brewery group The disastrous and counter-productive extension of lockdowns announced by the Government yesterday is a catastrophe from which the pub trade will never fully recover. By banning household mixing in pubs in London and beyond, Boris Johnson is condemning hundreds of thousands of the 1.3million people who … Read more

Outrage over plan to remove pew from church in case obese people can’t fit down the aisle 

A decision to remove the pews inside a 700-year-old church in case obese couples struggle to walk down the narrow aisle has been met with outrage among parishioners. The 32 Victorian pews have been put up for sale for £200 each as part of alterations to the inside of Grade II listed St Andrew’s Church … Read more

Princess Beatrice isolated with Prince Andrew so he could ‘walk her down the aisle’

Princess Beatrice isolated with Prince Andrew and her family at their home in Windsor Park’s Great Lodge ‘for some time’, an insider has claimed.  Princess Beatrice tied the knot to Italian property developer Edo Mapelli Mozzi in a surprise ceremony on Friday, releasing pictures alongside the Queen and Prince Philip on Saturday – but the shamed … Read more

Church warden, 88, lovingly known as ‘Uncle John’ was stabbed to death in Co-op aisle

A church warden was stabbed to death in a Co-op yesterday as his dementia-suffering wife waited in the car, it has been revealed.    Church warden John Rees, 88, left his wife Eunice, 87, in their Honda car while he queued up at a convenience store in Pen-y-Graig, south Wales on Tuesday for their weekly shop. … Read more

Man is stabbed to death in aisle of a Co-op after woman went ‘beserk’

An elderly man was allegedly stabbed to death and three other shoppers were injured when a woman went ‘beserk’ with a knife in a local supermarket today. The victim, who was out with his wife, was said to have been stabbed before he died in the aisle of the Co-op in the village of Pen-y-Graig … Read more