Bake Off star lobbies No10 over beer tax
Liverpool fans miss out on win in Genk... after going to Ghent instead
LANDLADY Candice Brown
GREAT British Bake Off winner Candice Brown has called on the Government to cut taxes on beers.
The 2016 champion, who is now a landlady, delivered a petition signed by more than 200,000 people to officials at Downing Street yesterday.
She said: “The beer duty is just astronomical.
“It’s 11 times higher than Spain and Germany and those financial constraints are meaning that three pubs a day are shutting.”
The Long Live The Local campaign wants to see beer duty cut by 2%.
Candice, who co-owns The Green Man in Eversholt, Beds, added: “They are a lot more than just a place where you get drunk.
“They are the centre of a community and the hub of the village..”
Rob & Lee in Belgian bar
TWO dopey Liverpool fans learnt the hard way to always check their spelling after missing their side’s Champions League game because they went to the wrong Belgian city.
Pals Rob and Lee only realised they were in Ghent and not Genk half an hour before Wednesday’s match was due to kick off.
It forced them to watch the Reds’ 4-1 win in an Irish cafe 95 miles from the action, with their
£130 rail tickets and £60 match tickets burning holes in their pockets.
Rob, from London, said they were “really embarrassed” and joked:
“I think next time we will let someone else book the travel.”
He explained: “We took a taxi and drove past the stadium and said to the driver, ‘We are going to watch Liverpool’, but he didn’t say much. “In hindsight, that should have made us realise.” Lee, from Leicester, and Rob, who didn’t reveal their surnames, only found out when a Ghentsupporting waiter told them during their pre-match meal. They have now been invited by Genk to watch their clash with Ghent in January as VIPs.
SUPPORTER ROB AFTER HIS AWAY-DAY BLUNDER
Rob & Lee went to GHENT...
Liverpool played in GENK
Liverpool forward Mo Salah during the clash with Genk
I think next time we will let someone else book the travel