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From Enterprise inns website: "The Craft Union Pub Company aims to be the pub of choice for locals to meet up and watch their favourite sports. These pubs are generally smaller with no food offering, but have excellent audio visual equipment, with sports and entertainment being footfall drivers. We aim to put great pubs back at the heart of the local community as we believe pubs play a vital role in the lives of their customers and we are committed to nurturing this." From London Evening standard 12 May 2015: The UK’s biggest pubs landlord Enterprise Inns said it plans to sell off 1000 pubs across the country over the next five years as bosses revealed a major overhaul of the company’s structure. New rules passed by parliament mean landlords must offer pub tenants a “rent-only” option, instead of just a “beer tie” agreement that meant publicans could only stock beer supplied to them from the landlords, who could charge whatever they liked. Enterprise today said it would be running up to 850 pubs itself, rather than as tenanted properties, by 2020, instead of just 16 at the moment. These are expected to be in three divisions of premium, run by Rupert Clevely, the founder of Geronimo Inns; mainstream, run by the Bermondsey Pub Company, and community pubs, currently run by the Craft Union Pub Company. There will still be around 2500 pubs that will have tied leases, with some publicans preferring the reduced rent and offers they get from the agreement. Rent-only agreements will jump from 180 today to around 1000 over the period. Chief executive Simon Townsend said: “Some businesses which are predominately food-led in well-located properties may well feel the rent-only model is more beneficial for their business.”

Retrofitting is proven as more environmentally sustainable than new build and Sheffield has lots of great buildings that have character and history. The Old Town Hall for one. Maybe moving the library and creating meanwhile or permanent use in the Old Town Hall would be an opportunity to breathe life into Castlegate and provide an opportunity for the library too ?

My dad, radial arm driller, there till 77 (I think), I remember all of us family driving in to collect his wages from the wages office one week, the car full of suitcases, spades and buckets, then going straight off on holiday - happy!

Try also Fulwood Old Chapel - a google search will quickly come up with the website and booking details. You can book either the Deeley Room with kitchen, loos etc attached, the main Chapel or both. Very good value.

The Ship on Shalesmoor has wonderful tiles outside. Built in 1833 and bought by Tomlinsons in 1924 when the tiles were applied. Became part of Hope & Anchor Breweries as you can see from the lettering outside. Good beers too. The Bay Horse in Pitsmoor is one of the oldest buildings in Sheffield, early C18th apparently, and has the low ceilings of the period inside. Decent pint of Kelham Island Easy Rider at an amazing £2.14 a pint. Britannia down Attercliffe has historic connections with Benjamin Huntsman of crucible steel fame. There is a plaque on the side of the building I believe.

We used to walk over from Hopefield Avenue to watch double bills of the Children Film Foundation films on Sat mornings - either with my brother or a mate. We'd watch cheaply made British rubbish about adventures at sea, or robots, un-exploded bombs left over from the war and there was one that I'm sure had the Double Deckers in it (did they do a film ?). we'd eat sweets and drink Ki-Ora and we loved it.

In response to the comments about displaying beer prices all German restaurants, beerkeller and beergarden of any size and note have their drink and food prices clearly shown not only on table menus but on their websites. Why don't British ones do that when updating their websites ? Then we'd know the kind of product and prices to expect when going out.

Remember it ... I'm still trying to forget it. Who tried to drown out all the Wednesdayites shouting to Hi Ho Silver Lining, and went for chips and curry from Sams after. Who went on the trips to the lake District, climbed up skiddaw and ate 'Burma road' (Thanks for the stomach ache Mr Lemm) ? Who played some ****hot table tennis, showed how crap they were at football and couldn't really play a musical instrument at Escafeld Brass Band practice on Tuesdays ... Oh the embarrassment ! great times though !!

Why aren't the Community Assembly agendas available online before the meeting ? You'd think they'd be able to at least do that. A cynic might say that they don't really want people to come.

"One of their MPs is the Deputy Prime Minister and in the absence of Mr. Cameron the most powerfull political figure in the country." http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/Politics/Nick-Clegg-Forgot-He-Was-Running-Country-Amid-Libya-Crisis-But-Team-SayS-He-Was-Joking/Article/201102415939874?lpos=Politics_First_UK_News_Article_Teaser_Region_3&lid=ARTICLE_15939874_Nick_Clegg_Forgot_He_Was_Running_Country_Amid_Libya_Crisis%2C_But_Team_SayS_He_Was_Joking

No. But the government might. Its a moot question as to who's doing the 'de-stabilising.' http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/Politics/David-Camerons-Plans-To-Let-Private-Companies-Run-Almost-All-Public-Services-Are-Unveiled/Article/201102315937591?f=rss

If you're in Crookes the Jamaican run offy on School Road does real 'uns.

I went in to the Dram Shop at Crookes before Christmas to get local beers to take to relatives in Scotland. There was a very wide range, including some very good offers from breweries slightly further afield - in Hull and Chesterfield. Also been in the Archer Road Beer Stop recently. Another wide and deep range of city beers. They certainly had Kelham Brewery's Pride Of Sheffield, Pale Rider, Brooklyn Smoked Porter and Grande Pale when I was in.

I think this needs to be savoured line by line for a fuller, richer flavour. http://highpeaklibdems.org.uk/en/article/2011/455390/we-cannot-let-labour-off-the-hook-on-council-cuts

Nick Cleggs broken promise on tuition fees was nothing to do with a sudden realisation of Britain's economic standing. On 7th May (one day after the election) Daily Telegraph writer Neil O'Brien identified Clegg as one of two Lib Dems (along with their higher ed spokesman Stephen Williams) as privately agreeing with tuition fees. See: http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/neilobrien1/100038647/could-a-“change-coalition”-work/