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Australia falls silent, lights candles for Bondi Beach shooting victims
AFP, Published on 21/12/2025
» SYDNEY - Australians fell silent in flickering candlelight Sunday to honour the Bondi Beach shooting victims, marking one week since gunmen fired into crowds at a Jewish festival.
Gen Z shift, high costs force UK nightclubs to reinvent
AFP, Published on 05/08/2025
» LONDON — Is the party over? Nightclubs in the United Kingdom (UK) are famed around the world, but the coronavirus disease (Covid) and inflation have hit the sector hard, forcing businesses to reinvent themselves to attract new generations to the dance floor.
Villagers win race to save UK pub, as thousands close
AFP, Published on 29/07/2025
» NEW RADNOR, Wales — A nearly 200-year-old pub, the Radnor Arms in rural Wales stood abandoned a few years ago. Water ran down the walls, ivy crept around broken windows and rats' skeletons littered the floor.
Black day? Guinness runs dry in UK pubs amid online craze
AFP, Published on 16/12/2024
» LONDON - At her London pub, landlady Kate Davidson has taken to issuing Guinness ration cards, but still the beer has run out amid a UK shortage of Ireland's national drink.
UK proposes ‘historic’ anti-smoking law
News Agencies, Published on 05/11/2024
» LONDON - The British government has introduced a new bill aimed at creating the first “smoke-free generation”, as part of a plan to ease pressure on the National Health Service.
A pint of wine? It’s a Brexit thing
Claire Moses, The New York Times, Published on 28/12/2023
» In 2024, the Brits will be able to drink like Winston Churchill again.
Shane MacGowan: laureate of lowlife folk-punk
AFP, Published on 30/11/2023
» DUBLIN - Shane MacGowan, the singer-songwriter who fronted Celtic folk-punk band The Pogues, was a booze-fuelled bard who performed defiant ballads of the downtrodden and doomed.
Demise of England's 'Crooked House' shows pubs in peril
AFP, Published on 18/08/2023
» LONDON - With a 15-degree list making one end four feet (1.2 metres) lower than the other, the historic Crooked House pub looked as if could topple over at any minute.
Sinead O'Connor, a troubled Irish icon
AFP, Published on 27/07/2023
» LONDON - Sinead O'Connor will forever be remembered as the Irish singer who made Prince's "Nothing Compares 2 U" her own, turning it into an anthem for the broken-hearted.
Pomp and protests as UK holds first coronation in 70 years
AFP, Published on 05/05/2023
» LONDON - Britain's first coronation in 70 years takes place on Saturday, with Charles III crowned king in an elaborate Christian ceremony steeped in solemn ritual and more than a millennium of history.