Following more than a year of local tasting panels and regional heats, Lacons’ Audit Ale has been named champion winter beer of Britain. Announced at this week’s Great British Beer Festival Winter in Norwich, Audit Ale got its name because of the way a number of Cambridge and Oxford university colleges used to celebrate the…
Just three weeks before Northamptonshire welcome Middlesex for their first home game of the season, the club will be hosting a very different occasion when gin and rum will be the order of the day at the County Ground. Sponsored by Schweppes 1783, the venue hosts a Gin and Rum Festival on 16 March, where…
Nottinghamshire’s Thoresby Park is the setting for one of the biggest gatherings of “fake” bands seen in the UK, with The Big Fake Festival bringing 24 unreal acts together for three days of the nation’s favourite hits from 30 August to 1 September 2019. The conclusion to a summer of “Fake Festivals” across the country,…
The X Factor Live Tour 2019 begins in Nottingham this week, with the stars of the 2018 series Dalton Harris, Scarlett Lee, Anthony Russell, Danny Tetley, Acacia & Aaliyah, Brendan Murray, Shan Ako and Bella Penfold going on the road to venues across the UK and Ireland until 6 March. And if the sight of…
With Anthony Joshua sitting on top of the world in the heavyweight game, Britain’s enjoying something of a purple patch in the boxing world at the moment. Joshua currently holds the WBA, IBF and WBO belts and is the man to beat in the heavyweight division but Britain also has four other world beaters in…
From one revolutionary residential festival in a multi-purpose holiday camp a little over a decade ago, Chic Festivals has grown to become a powerhouse on the European stage… and this year will be bringing 16 events to locations around the UK and one on the road in Spain. It all started with Hard Rock Hell…
On the first weekend of February Cardiff will become a blaze of pageantry as the Welsh hordes do battle with the likes of Zelda, Deadpool, Thor and Mystique to see who will be the first to get to the bar. A day after the Dragons take on Les Tricolores in Paris on the opening night…
The medieval British city of Norwich plays host to the Great British Beer Festival Winter for its third and final year next month. Having hosted the winter festival from 2017, it will move on to a different CAMRA location in 2020. Taking place from 19-23 February at The Halls, the festival will include a vast…
Great Britain face old rivals Australia, the Czech Republic and the United States on Saturday, 1 July, when the Monster Energy Speedway World Cup gets underway at King’s Lynn. The Lions are captained by new British champion and Adrian Flux British SGP wild-card Craig Cook, with King’s Lynn icon Robert Lambert also selected. Former SGP…
Norwich’s 10-day celebration of pubs, breweries and real ale comes to an end for another year this weekend, with the festivities concluding on Sunday, 4 June. Renowned for growing some of the finest malting barley in the world, the city has a multitude of micro-breweries and this city-wide celebration of real ale emphasises the local…
