Good week/bad week

31 August 2006
Good week/bad week

GOOD

Political correctness Owners of the Hitler Cross restaurant in Kharghar, India, bow to pressure and change name.

Decency Conservative groups in the USA urge FBI to investigate whether hotel porn channels break obscenity laws.

Female beer monsters Britain's first female beer inspector says women's taste-buds are better equipped to savour ale than men's.

Celebrity cocktail swiggers New York's 90-year-old celebrity bartender Hoy Wong quashes retirement speculation.

BAD

Elior UK senior managers Summoned to a meeting in Oxfordshire last week to explain company's poor performance (see page 7).

Rural drinkers Tractor full of manure crashes into White Hart pub near Otley, Yorkshire.

Windows Tramp poos on a pub window in Newquay, citing "a bowel problem".

Death metal fans The Intrepid Fox pub, focus of alternative metal scene in London's Soho, is to close.

Nightclub doors Disgruntled customer drives his Jeep into front doors of Exeter nightclub after being thrown out.

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