"Some 6.7 million fewer pints per day are sold over the bar than nine years ago, a loss of nearly a quarter of the volume."

"Are women's dainty little hands too small for a pint glass? Can our delicate, frail forms not cope with the volume of liquid?"

If we can have an Ed Balls Day we must be able to spend 24 hours celebrating beer?

"Sales of water in pubs and bars are up a whopping 27% in value and 23% in volume"

"The pub industry is not unusual in lacking women at the top – there are more men called John running FTSE 100 companies (17), than there are women (7)."