Just 48 days after insisting that their decision to close the Banks's Brewery in Wolverhampton would not impact the range of cask beers it brews, Carlsberg Marston's Brewing Company (CMBC) announced that eleven beers are to be axed by the end of the year, eight of them cask. Beers to go are: Banks's Mild, Banks's Sunbeam, Bombardier (keg), Eagle IPA, Jennings Cumberland Ale, Mansfield Dark Smooth (keg), Mansfield Original Bitter (keg), Marston's Old Empire, Marston's 61 Deep, Ringwood Boondoggle and Ringwood Old Thumper. This act of corporate vandalism has been widely condemned by CAMRA, beer writers and others.

After a long and determined campaign led by former licensee Lorraine Briggs to prevent change of use of the Lincoln Imp pub in Ashby and despite planning permission twice being rejected by North Lincolnshire Council, the developer Shape & Land Property (who purchased the pub from Admiral Taverns), took their case to the Government Planning Inspectorate on appeal. The Inspectorate have now allowed the appeal and the pub will be demolished and new housing built on the site. Scunthorpe will now lose one of its most iconic pubs, famous for encouraging local musicians and for the promotion of live music. Much praise should go to The Save The Lincoln Imp campaign group for their valiant efforts to save the pub for the benefit of the local community.