Moves to cut duty on beer, but to increase the tax take from wine and spirits may be illegal

The public house is more than just a retail business: it plays an important role at the heart of many local communities

Chancellor George Osborne rose to deliver his 2013 Budget Statement to the House of Commons at 12.32pm.

The price of a pint of beer is to be cut by a penny – paid for by big tax rises on wine and spirits, George Osborne announced today.

There's the Budget speech the Chancellor should make (as seen by Matthew Norman on Voices today) and then there's the one he's almost certainly going to make. Once you've resigned yourself to that grim reality, Budget Bingo seems the sensible way forward

Double lottery wins aren't completely unheard of, even though they do occasionally crop up. But the writers of television series quite regularly get the five-number payoff of a repeat commission. It happened to Kay Mellors, whose drama The Syndicate, about a group of Bradford supermarket workers scooping a big prize on the lottery, went down well enough to get another booking.

Nicola Furlong's murderer treated as a minor by court so could walk free in five years

The former England goalkeeper Peter Shilton has been banned from the road after admitting drink-driving.

“Too many twits might make a twat,” our Prime Minister once said of the Twitter website. His words evidently went unheeded by his friends at The Daily Telegraph, whose reporters have had Twitter unceremoniously thrust upon them.

The Archbishop of Canterbury has discussed his personal approach to alcohol

Stuart Lancaster's team lick their wounds after being eaten up and spat out by a more experienced and physical Wales

The MP arrested for a fracas in Parliament on Thursday has denied being drunk at the time of the incident, and denied being an alcoholic.

Incident at parliamentary karaoke night second arrest in two years

The size of the tax burden imposed on Britain's pubs was laid bare yesterday in half-year results from JD Wetherspoon.