The rebel army was defeated and 12 men were hanged at the crossroads by the infamous Judge Jeffries who is reputed to have held court at The George. On 12 June 1668, Samuel Pepys, his wife and servants dined here.The Royal Anchor, LIPHOOK, HAMPSHIREIn recent years, the Anchor has been remembered as a place where George Best found himself on the receiving end of somebody else’s fist in a booze-fuelled brawl.Best claimed he was quietly sipping a white wine spritzer in his local when a resident took a swing at him, two years ago. The man who delivered the punch saw it differently.But the pub – parts of which date back to the 16th century – on the main road between London and Portsmouth is also celebrated for its Royal connections. Edward II, Elizabeth I, Queen Anne, George III, William IV visited and so, too, did Lord Nelson and Lady Hamilton.In 1815, the Allied Sovereigns met with Blucher and Wellington at the pub.Clissold Arms, FORTIS GREEN, LONDON N2″Mum would shout and scream when dad would come home drunk,When she’d ask him where he’d been, he said: ‘Up the Clissold Arms’,Chattin’ up some hussy, but he didn’t mean no harm.”‘Fortis Green’ by Dave Davies, The KinksThe name of this pub is in the vocabulary of any self-respecting Kinks fan. The Prime Minister also said he would prefer to see Venezuela’s ally Cuba function as a true democracy.

Mr Chavez responded to Mr Blair’s comments by branding him “a pawn of imperialism” and “the main ally of Hitler” – a reference to US President George Bush. In his latest attack on Mr Blair today, Mr Chavez said Britain had violated the sovereignty of various nations – citing the case of the Falklands. “We have to remember the Falklands, how they were taken away from the Argentinians,” he said. Speaking in the western Venezuelan city of Maracaibo, he added: “Those islands are Argentina’s Return them, Mr Blair. Those islands are Argentina’s.” Downing Street would not rise to the attack.

The Prime Minister’s official spokesman said: “I don’t think it is to anybody’s benefit to get into a war of words on this. Includes a Roman mosaic found at the bottom of the museum’s goods lift shaft.SS Great Britain, BristolIt has taken more than three decades to salvage and preserve one of Britain’s most important historic ships but an innovative dehumidification chamber, in which the SS Great Britain now sits, has finally stopped decay. She was “re-launched” to visitors last July.Yorkshire Sculpture Park, The Underground Gallery, near WakefieldOne of the largest purpose-built galleries for years was fitted under the historic landscape of the open-air sculpture park founded in 1977. Hugo Chavez said the islands belonged to Argentina and demanded Prime Minister Tony Blair give them back.
Mr Blair infuriated Mr Chavez earlier this week when he said he should respect the rules of the international community. Downing Street today refused to be drawn into a fresh war of words with Venezuela’s president after he called on Britain to hand over the Falklands to Argentina. The novel was published in the West in 1968, but appeared officially in the Soviet Union only in the late 1980s when Mikhail Gorbachev’s policy of glasnost (openness) began to bite.Solzhenitsyn returned to Russia in 1994 amid great fanfare after years of living in the United States, but struggled to find his rightful place.His views – trenchant Russian nationalism, loathing of materialism and vocal support for the Russian Orthodox Church – have at times been controversial.But with the television film The First Circle he finally appears to have found his niche.. The new, faster-paced lifestyle of the Irish has led Guinness to experiment with a new reduced-strength pint of its famous stout.

The company promises that the new tipple, called Guinness Mid-Strength, is identical in every way to traditional Guinness, except that its alcohol content is significantly lower – 2.8 per cent rather than the regular 4.2 per cent.
The brewery says it is a new Guinness for a new age in which Irish men want to drink but also want to keep their wits about them for more hectic and exacting lifestyles.A Guinness executive said: “There are times when you want a couple of pints but you don’t want the fuller hit of a higher alcohol product.”We believe this will be appealing to 25- to 45-year- old males – guys with family and work commitments.”Mid-Strength will go on sale in pubs in Limerick next month, a city which is said to have a particular fondness for Guinness.The new approach is in line with the policy of the Irish government, which has for years expressed concern about excessive drinking and “binge” drinking, especially among the young.. But it happened earlier,” he said.That it has happened is all the more remarkable considering that when it was first written in the 1950s the first draft had to be concealed in an empty champagne bottle in a hospital ward where Solzhenitsyn was being treated for cancer. His wife Natalia, who also acts as his official spokeswoman, said that he was struck by the film’s authenticity and reminded of his own eight-year stint in labour camps across the Soviet Union.The series’ director, Gleb Panfilov, said in a television interview that he had conceived the idea of turning the novel into a film as long ago as 1974, the year Solzhenitsyn was exiled from the USSR, but never thought it would happen in his lifetime.”I assumed that bringing it to the screen would be possible in 300 years. Indeed to the surprise of TV executives, the grim morality tale set in Stalinist Russia turned out to have more pulling power than Arnold Schwarzenegger in Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines which was broadcast at exactly the same time on a rival channel.As the theatre critic Vera Maksimova wrote: “The streets are empty People are sitting and watching The First Circle. Solzhenitsyn is back.”The man variously described as “Russia’s greatest living writer” or as “Russia’s conscience” did the voice-over for the powerful drama and penned the screenplay.It is the first time any of his writings have been transferred to the small or indeed the big screen in his native Russia.When he watched the rough-cut version he is reported to have wept with emotion.