Courage Best, is sponsor of the UK's largest ever amateur darts competition, which has a total prize fund of £16,000 with a pot of £5,000 for the winners. Top out-shot at the National Finals pays £400 and the ladies team which gets the furthest will receive a  £1,000 bonus.
The tournament is open to all pubs and clubs and free to enter. Teams have until August 1st to sign up. Register your team name, pub address, telephone number and contact name by phoning 0191 251 0255 or completing a form online at: www.couragebest.co.uk.
for Life (14km) raising over £200.

The Queens Head in Burnham on Crouch recently presented the RNLI with nearly £450 to help run the much-needed lifesaving work around Britain's coast. Thanks go to licensee Jim, and to all the customers at the pub for their generosity.

Carling lager TV adverts have been cleared by the ASA after complainants said that the ads implied alcohol was integral to successful socialising.  Carling's brewer, Coors said the 'know who your mates are' ads merely showed a "collective conviviality".
Curiously, there were only three complaints and yet with some 90,000 CAMRA members you'd expect more. Now Coors will bombard the unwitting among us with a further £14m of TV advertising, so get your pens ready!

Oops… A couple were arrested after a dinghy trip whilst allegedly drunk. The pair were found clinging to a buoy after the boat capsized. When they set out they had no oars, life jackets or means of communication. Portland Coastguard called it "sheer madness" due to "drink and stupidity". We'd rate it as stupidity and drink, but for once it's recognised that it takes more than just 'demon drink'.

Latest additions to the Cask Marque quality beer scheme are: Black Horse, Pilgrims Hatch; Green Man, Herongate; Kings Head, Billericay; Mawney Arms, Romford; Robin Hood, Clacton; Rovers Tye, Colchester; Swan, Brentwood; Unicorn, Ilford; Moby Dick, Chadwell Heath; Rose, Great Wakering and Marquis of Granby, Old Harlow.
  Two more TaP-room pubs have achieved Cask Marque accreditation, so that's a very special congratulations to Steve at the George Inn Shalford and Dave at the Woolpack in Chelmsford.

The Guild of Master Victuallers has written to the Home Office asking for ID cards to be made compulsory in order to help bar staff avoid serving underage drinkers. Home Office minister Meg Hillier said the plan is for ID cards to be voluntary, yet still claims the majority of people are silly enough to want one.

Redevelopment of the Stones Throw pub in South Ockendon will go ahead after revised plans were submitted. The new complex will consist of a total of 14 one and two-bedroom flats.

Cheers…! It's good news for the UK's bar staff and pub managers who have been granted the right to work more than 48 hours a week. That evil-twisted European Commission had wanted to limit them to a mere 48 hours but thanks to New Labour, you can now work all hours God sends.

Raves are too dark for the police !!! Kent Police say it is not safe to disperse revellers in remote locations. Chief Supt. Gill Ellis insisted that health and safety regulations prevented officers dealing with such incidents until daybreak. She said that people might get in their cars and drive home while high on drink or drugs. The situation is compounded by a lack of manpower unless police get plenty of notice of the rave.
Regarding the issue of darkness, a local councillor, Phil Hobson, pointed out that a previous rave near Shoreham had gone on through the night and only ended at one o'clock the following afternoon!

Well done to Maggie, the landlady of the Woolpack in Chelmsford who completed the recent Farleigh Hospice Walk for Life (14km) raising over £200 for the cause.