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...Firkins, who writes the Rutland Country Life blog on Substack, has joined the Rutland Solar Action Group, which is campaigning to stop the development of a large-scale solar array near Pilton....
...Popular beers from large brewers are traditionally sold in a firkin, which is 72 pints or about 40.9 litres. Similarly, lager from multinational breweries is generally sold in 50 litre containers....
...Firkins — the traditional size of a beer cask used in the UK — hold 40.9 litres, but publicans said some beers were stored in smaller containers and could miss out on the relief....
...Australia’s foreign minister Marise Payne said that travel bloggers, Jolie King and Mark Firkin, had travelled back to Australia and were in “good health and good spirits” following their release from custody...
...Its website lists only a get-together at the Fox & Firkin in High Street, Lewisham, but this seems likely to be about as festive as the group’s “victory” party in June....
...Jonathan Firkins, an analyst at UBS, wrote in a note on Friday: “Admiral should benefit from a flight to quality”....
...Many, in fact, have been taken over by big chains, tackied up and renamed The Slug and Lettuce, The Ferret and Firkin or The Farting Wayfarer....
...While no doubt it is jolly nice to have a PM who seems the kind of chap with whom you can imagine yourself downing beers and sizing up the talent in the Fox and Firkin, it is not exactly a primary requirement...
...David Bruce, who founded the Firkin chain of pubs and was heavily involved in the early days of the Slug & Lettuce concept, is to float his London-based Capital Pub Co. in the first quarter of 2007....
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