Archive for the ‘Society’ Category

E-petition to Protect diversity of our town centres

Saturday’s protest in Abingdon against Tesco turning the former Ox pub into a Tesco Direct as reported in the Oxford Mail yesterday and the Abingdon Blog seemed to go well, although unfortunately I was unable to attend as I was still working as a volunteer at the Great British Beer Festival. An e-petition has now [...]

August 9, 2011 В· The Abingdon Drinker В· No Comments
Tags: , , ,  В· Posted in: Abingdon, Abingdon Pubs, Society

Alcohol becoming socially unacceptable?

Following a news article on BBC web site about a charity lobbying to prevent children drinking at home, I actually got one of my comments published on Page 35 of the Have Your Say section. My comment is that I am worried that now the moral brigade have been succesful making smoking in public places [...]

April 29, 2007 В· The Abingdon Drinker В· 4 Comments
Posted in: Alcohol, Society