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Hook Norton is a unique 150 year old brewery and produces a wide range of of award winning real ales and bottled beers.</description>    <language>en</language>    <webMaster>dean.bailey@wirefish.net</webMaster>    <copyright>The Hook Norton Brewery Ltd</copyright>    <item>      <title>A warm welcome promised by the new licensees at the Volunteer Inn, Grove</title>      <pubDate>Tue, 6 Mar 2007 16:49:14 GMT</pubDate>      <link>http://www.hooky.co.uk/news_2007/licensees_Volunteer/licensees_Volunteer.html</link>      <author>Tim Hampson</author>      <description><![CDATA[Kevin and Carol Nichol are the new licensees at the Volunteer Inn, Grove, Wantage in Oxfordshire. And the couple, who have recently returned to the country after 20 years in South Africa, plan to put their Hook Norton pub at the heart of community life. When the pub first opened in the 19th Century it was called the Rifle Volunteer, a tribute no doubt to many local people who joined the army.]]></description>    </item>    <item>      <title>Bell Inn, Adderbury - smoke-free for a day</title>      <pubDate>Tue, 6 Mar 2007 16:43:48 GMT</pubDate>      <link>http://www.hooky.co.uk/news_2007/Bell_inn_Adderbury_smoke_free/Bell_inn_Adderbury_smoke_free.html</link>      <author>Tim Hampson</author>      <description><![CDATA[The Bell Inn at Adderbury, Oxfordshire will be joining other pubs across the country by going smoke-free for one day - 14 March - to mark national No Smoking Day. Banning smoking for one day will give the pub an insight into the challenges of running a smoke-free pub before the national smoking ban, which begins on 1 July. It will also help customers to get used to the ban.]]></description>    </item>	      <title>Izzy whizzy, lets gets busy as the Marston Inn goes no-smoking</title>      <pubDate>Mon, 19 Feb 2007 13:27:27 GMT</pubDate>      <link>http://www.hooknortonbrewery.co.uk/news_2007/Marston_Magic/marston_magic.html</link>      <author>Tim Hampson</author>      <description><![CDATA[Izzy whizzy lets gets busy and abracadabra the ashtrays are gone.Magic circle member Nigel Davies who runs the Marston Inn, Marston St Lawernce, in Oxfordshire has called time on smoking at his rural pub.]]></description>    </item>    <item>      <title>Lets make St George’s Day a celebration says Hook Norton Hook Norton</title>      <pubDate>Sat, 10 Feb 2007 16:25:03 GMT</pubDate>      <link>http://www.hooknortonbrewery.co.uk/news_2007/St_Georges_Day/St_Georges_Day.html</link>      <author>Tim Hampson</author>      <description><![CDATA[Hook Norton is calling for pubs to make St George’s Day an event to remember. Hook Norton Managing Director James Clarke said: “We celebrate the saints of Ireland, Scotland and Wales – Patrick, Andrew and David – but now is the time that we celebrate St George.]]></description>    </item>	<item>			<title>The Bell Inn, Adderbury celebrates Community Pubs Week – February 17th to 24th </title>        <description>To mark Community Pubs Week, The Bell Inn, Adderbury, Oxfordshire is organising a week of events! Community Pubs Week is a CAMRA initiative to celebrate British pubs and to help raise the profile and importance of pubs in the community and encourage people of all ages and backgrounds to use community pubs more often.</description>        <link>http://www.hooknortonbrewery.co.uk/news_2007/Bell_Adderbury/bell_adderbury.html</link>        <pubDate>Tues, 31 Jan 2007 12:00:17 +0000</pubDate>		</item>	         <item>			<title>Hook Norton on the frontline</title>        <description>Most of us like to drink of beer after a hard day at work.And Tim Badham is no different from the rest of us – other than he is a Lieutenant serving with the Light Dragoons in Helmand province in Afghanistan.</description>        <link>http://www.hooknortonbrewery.co.uk/news_2007/frontline/on_the_frontline.html</link>        <pubDate>Tues, 29 Jan 2007 12:00:17 +0000</pubDate>		</item><item>			<title>Puesdown Inn is the West County Gastro Pub of the Year</title>        <description>The Puesdown Inn, Compton Abdale, Gloucestershire was chosen as the Morning Advertiser West Country Gastro Pub of the Year for 2007.</description>        <link>http://www.hooknortonbrewery.co.uk/news_2007/Puesdown_Inn/Puesdown_Inn.html</link>        <pubDate>Sat, 27 Jan 2007 11:36:17 +0000</pubDate>		</item>                  <item>        <title>News stories from Hook Norton Brewery</title>        <description>Regular updated news stories from Hook Norton Brewery and local area. Hook Norton is a unique 150 year old brewery and produces a wide range of of award winning real ales and bottled beers.</description>        <link>http://www.hooknortonbrewery.co.uk/news_2007.html</link>                <lastBuildDate>Fri, 08 Dec 2006 16:31:17 +0000</lastBuildDate>        <pubDate>Fri, 08 Dec 2006 11:16:42 +0000</pubDate>        				<item>			<title>Hat trick of golds for Hook Norton licensees</title>        <description>Three Hook Norton tenants are celebrating a triple success as their pubs are judged to set some of the highest standards for serving beer in the country.</description>        <link>http://www.hooknortonbrewery.co.uk/news_2007/hat_trick/hat_trick.html</link>        <pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2007 09:36:17 +0000</pubDate>				        <item>            <title>Get festive with Twelve Days</title>            <description>Ten lords leaping, nine ladies dancing, eight maids milking and seven swans swimming - what is going on in Hook Norton pubs?</description>            <link>http://www.hooknortonbrewery.co.uk/news_2006/festive_Twelve_Days/festive_Twelve_Days_06.html</link>            <pubDate>Fri, 08 Dec 2006 11:14:40 +0000</pubDate>        </item>        <item>            <title>Small pub big heart</title>            <description>The Red Lion, Chipping Norton might be a small intimate pub, but it has a big heart. For its customers do much more than raise thousands of pounds for local charities every year - they have provided the motivation for many to work tirelessly on behalf of the local community.</description>            <link>http://www.hooknortonbrewery.co.uk/news_2006/Small_pub_big_heart/small_pub_06.html</link>            <pubDate>Fri, 08 Dec 2006 11:15:45 +0000</pubDate>        </item>        <item>            <title>Relax in style at the Fox</title>            <description>That our customers should relax in style is the ambition of Jane Parnell, the new tenant at the Fox Hotel in Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire. She and her husband Tony have been at the Fox for several weeks now and have spent the time getting to know the regular customers and the town of Chipping Norton.</description>            <link>http://www.hooknortonbrewery.co.uk/news_2006/fox_story/fox_06.html</link>            <pubDate>Fri, 08 Dec 2006 11:15:10 +0000</pubDate>        </item>        <item>            <title>New boots fill the Wellington</title>            <description>The people of Moreton in the Marsh must have pretty green fingers say Graham Provins and David Organ, the new tenants at the Wellington in London Road. For an appeal to locals to supply the pub with freshly picked vegetables for use in the pub’s kitchen has proved to be a huge success. And at one point an excess of pumpkins meant that some were adapted to decorate the pub too.</description>            <link>http://www.hooknortonbrewery.co.uk/news_2006/New_boots_Wellington/New_boots_fill_Wellington_06.html</link>            <pubDate>Fri, 08 Dec 2006 11:13:12 +0000</pubDate>        </item>        <item>            <title>Hook Norton customers strike Gold with new beer</title>            <description>Hooky Gold, first produced as a limited edition seasonal beer at the beginning of 2006, has proved so popular with CAMRA members and other beer drinkers that it is coming back as a permanent draught beer on the bar in 2007.</description>            <link>http://www.hooknortonbrewery.co.uk/news_2006/Hook_Norton_strike_Gold/Hooky_customers_strike_Gold_06.html</link>            <pubDate>Fri, 08 Dec 2006 11:12:40 +0000</pubDate>        </item>        <item>            <title>Bell Inn present over 6,000 to charity</title>            <description>A presentation evening at the Bell Inn, Adderbury saw local charities receive over £6,000, raised through the hard work and generosity of the Oxfordshire villagers.</description>            <link>http://www.hooknortonbrewery.co.uk/news_2006/Bell_Inn_present_6000/Bell_Inn_present_6000_06.html</link>            <pubDate>Fri, 08 Dec 2006 11:12:10 +0000</pubDate>        </item>        <item>            <title>Falcon soars to new heights</title>            <description>A friendship of 20 years has helped form the business relationship between Paula Dimmock and Chrissie Harris the new licensees at the Falcon, in Thame Park Road, Thame.</description>            <link>http://www.hooknortonbrewery.co.uk/news_2006/Falcon_soars/Falcon_soars_06.html</link>            <pubDate>Fri, 08 Dec 2006 11:06:19 +0000</pubDate>        </item>    </channel></rss>