31.   This would more than double its pub holdings, making it one of the largest pub owners in the United Kingdom.

32.   In the streets some policemen, taxi drivers and hawkers abandoned their duties to join the party, while pub owners provided free drinks, the tabloid said.

33.   Pub owner Jacky Mullan looked ruefully at the wreckage of his business, but vowed to patch up and carry on.

34.   So intense is the competition for punters that some pub owners refused to disclose their promotion plans.