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A bar in Warrington has been criticised for a ‘two-bob Tuesday’ promotion offering beers for 20 pence and spirits for ten pence. It can’t be making a profit…
| Bottle of wine | Excise rates across the EU in pounds | Pint of beer |
|---|---|---|
| £5.50 | UK | 38p |
| 0p | Germany | 4p |
| 2p | France | 5p |
| 1p | Italy | 12p |
| £1.23 | Sweden | 31p |
Political conferences don’t necessarily encourage people to join the parties, but which has the cheapest annual membership fee if you do want to take the plunge?
— Lib Dems: £12
— UKIP: £20
— Conservatives: £25
— BNP: £30
— Green Party: £31.20
— Labour: £41
The last slops
A convicted paedophile has threatened to take the government to court over the continued practice of ‘slopping out’ at Albany Prison on the Isle of Wight. Slopping out officially ended in British prisons in 1996. Yet, in practice, 2,000 inmates in nine prisons have no sanitation in their cells and either have to call an officer to let them out, or carry on slopping out. The prisons to avoid: Blundeston, Bristol, Bulwood Hall, Coldingley, Gloucester, Grendon, Ranby, Hewell (Brockhill), Albany, Long Lartin
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