If you’re trying to take good care of your heart, a healthy, balanced diet with plenty of fruit and vegetables is important. Five or more fruit and veg a day might seem like a tall order, but with a few tricks, it can actually be pretty simple – especially for a canny urban gardener. Homemade […]
Category: Drinks
The Lakes Distillery Cumbria For Easter
The Lake District ’ s picturesque patchwork of lakes, valleys, woodlands and fells make it one of the best places in Britain to get out with the family and experience the great outdoors. Whether exploring The Lakes Distillery, enjoying a leisurely bike ride down country lanes or shopping in beautiful market towns, Cumbria is the […]
A Few Benefits of Drinking Tea
In the UK, we don’t need to be encouraged to drink more tea. However many of us could benefit from varying our cups between our British favourite, breakfast tea, and other types of tea that can help aid our health, performance and overall wellbeing. Many recent studies into tea have found that different types of […]
Luscombe Drinks cool alternatives to an alcoholic beverage
Have a holiday from overindulgence during the festive period and join thousands of others who are taking a break from alcohol and raising funds for charity in ‘Dry January’, ‘Dryathlon’ or later in the year for ‘Go Sober in October’. With well-established soft drinks producer Luscombe Drinks, it’s easy to keep on the straight and […]
Bagel Nash Builds Great Wall of China with Coffee Mugs
Coffee lovers at Bagel Nash in Nottingham have been showing off their ugly mugs to help the store build it’s very own ‘Great Wall of China’. Customers at the coffee and bagel shop on Wheeler Gate, were urged to raid their cupboards and find their unloved, old ugly mugs and take them into the store […]
National Afternoon Tea Week Celebrates The Great British Tradition
National Afternoon Tea Week takes place on the 11th to 17th of August. In 1840 Anne, the seventh Duchess of Bedford, started requesting tea, bread and cake at 4pm to stave off hunger until dinner and soon after afternoon tea became a much-loved, quintessentially British tradition. National Afternoon Tea Week celebrates this great heritage with […]
A look at the current pub business
The report shows that life for Britain’s pubs and bars in looking up, despite the increase in taxation, the production of cheap supermarket alcohol and the sad economic status. Capital expenditure has gone up by 66% in the last year due to an increase in investment by pub owners. The like-for-like sales have gone up […]
British winemaker sees increase in profits
Emma Sinclair, A British winemaker who has seen an increase in profits, wonders how much of this is contributed by demand, the growing UK female client base, and unreliable weather. When wondering around the off-license, it is hard to imagine vineyards in the countryside of the country. The weather here is very cold and wet. […]
Derbyshire Day set to be celebrated in the House of Commons
The House of Commons has invited Derbyshire’s food and drink producers to celebrate Derbyshire Day. The event, facilitated by Nigel Mills, MP for Amber Valley and Heather Wheeler, Mp for South Derbyshire, will be held on Tuesday, April 16th. The Commons Speaker John Bercow, Commons Deputy Speaker, Nigel Evans, Food Minister David Heath, and the […]
Glasgow welcomes major exhibition of Scotch Whisky
-Scotch Whisky: From Grain to Glass to open at Mitchell Library- -Friday 31 May-Wednesday 31 July 2013- A new exhibition tracing the rich heritage of the national drink of Scotland will be in the main hall of the Mitchell Library in Glasgow starting at the end of May. Entitled ‘Scotch Whisky; From Grain to Glass’, this […]