Trade blasts "binge" website

Licensees have blasted a controversial website which they claim promotes binge-drinking and lists their premises without their consent.

Pissed.co.uk advertises itself as a "survival guide to beer, kebabs and women" and in its directory lists hundreds of pubs and bars across the country.

Lou Hogg (pictured far right) of the Old Crown, in Hesket Newmarket, said: "It looks tacky and I'm really not happy about it. Publicans have a responsibility not to promote this sort of thing."

The site also received condemnation from the British Beer & Pub Association (BBPA). Mark Hastings, the BBPA's communications director, said: "It would be preferable if this site put forward the pleasures of social drinking rather than the tired old images of drunkenness."

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