"Lancashire" news and stories

Local authorities in Preston, Lancashire want to ban "vertical drinking." Based on that verbiage one might think that they're bent on promoting "horizontal drinking." But that's not what they're on about.

The police want to stop pubgoers from standing while drinking, not because they're likely to fall if they imbibe too much, but because they feel that standing and swilling promotes rowdy, sometimes violent behavior. The solution, they say, is to have all drinkers be seated. While rowdy drinkers causing fights does seem to be a problem in Lancashire, I'm pretty sure that forcing them to remain seated won't help things a bit. If anything it might make the punters surlier.

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A public toilet in Deepdale, Lancashire in the UK is probably not the best choice of buildings for a restaurant to be located, even if the building (described as "crumbling") has not been actively used as a restroom for a decade. And yet the city has just ruled that the building can be converted into a Japanese-pagoda styled takeaway restaurant.

The reason that they want to turn the space into a restaurant - two different people have tried before - is that it is just outside the Deepdale stadium and such a location could do very good business from sports fans. Both previous attempts failed because residents have been opposed to the change on the grounds that a restaurant would create litter and attract vermin. This is particularly ironic considering that the eyesore has been a haven for prostitutes and drug addicts in the past.

I think I'd rather have a takeaway restaurant but, hey - that's just me.

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