Question One:
A type of much safer glasses is to be trialled in pubs across Oldworth in a bid to reduce injuries and suffers.
The glasses, designed by Oldworth Glass, will be trialled starting from next week in response to Home Office’s calling for a less hazardous pint glass, as a result of an estimated 87,000 injuries are caused each year by traditional pint glasses.
Jon Fetley, marketing director of the company, said: “Our aim is to use a material that will not shard on breaking. It will reduce the number of staff in pubs and clubs who suffers cuts from broken glasses while serving, clearing or washing up.”
But he also admitted that drinkers are very attached to the traditional glass and he said “this has been a key problem to overcome”.
Jan Blomfield, of the government’s Design Against Crime Unit expressed similar concern by saying “drinkers are very attached to their pint glass and we have to deal with that fact”.
He added: “People are used to drinking from plastic or paper cups in many situations but there is widespread feeling that if you go to a pub it is traditional to drink beer from a glass.”
One beer lover from the Oldworth Brewers and Public Houses Association Richard Boatman said: “It’s absolutely true that people don’t like drinking out of plastic, which is quite awful. And if they’re safe, that’s great.
“Plastic ‘glasses’ don’t last as long as the average three-month life span of an actual glass and they’re susceptible to scratching.”
A brewery and pub historian Eric Worthington, 57, of 18 Kerkham Way, Oldworth, said he tried the new glasses and “you can hardly tell them from those being used by every pub up and down the land.
“Even the shape is pretty much the same. There’s just a very slightly different feel to the glass, but it’s hardly noticeable. If they’re safe, that’s great.”
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Question Two:
Ainsworth Road Police evacuated the 100-yeard cordon around its station, nearby homes and businesses after a suspected explosive item had been found.
The whole action lasted one hour from 8:30am to 9:30am after the public members had handed in an item likely to be of military munitions.
The Royal Ordnance Corps identified the item, green colour with yellow writing on it, as a suspended Citroen car’s compression unit.
Superintendent Alan Smyth said: “It was better to be safe than sorry.”
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Question Three:
An event to find Oldworth city’s favourite nursery rhyme will be launched next Monday.
Voting slips will be available at libraries and readers can vote at oldworth.gov.uk/nurseryrhyme
Results will be revealed in six week’s time for the Oldworth Children’s Library Day.
Voters will have chances to win a puppet pack.
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Question Four:
The manager of the city’s main hospital or someone in the senior position of the hospital’s management board:
* How did the hospital come up with such a decision to bar the drunken patients from pubs and clubs in the area?
* How important for a hospital like this to make such a decision to bar drunken patients?
* How did these drunken patients affect hospital’s routine work?
* What is the estimated cost of these hospital facilities damaged by drunken patients?
* When did the incident happen regarding the drunken man punching a female doctor?
* How did the above incident happen?
* What have the hospital done so far after the incident happened apart from deciding to join the local Pubwatch scheme?
* Have other hospitals in the city got similar experiences like their doctors being punched by drunken patients? What did they do to solve the problem?
* Is there any other way to solve the problem instead of preventing them from entering the pubs and clubs in the local area?
Patients from the city’s main hospital:
* Have you heard about the incident that a drunken patient had punched a female doctor at the hospital?
* What is your attitude towards the incident?
* What is your opinion about the hospital’s decision to bar patients from pubs and clubs in the area?
* How serious do you think the drinking problem in this hospital?
* Do you agree with hospital’s decision regarding drunken patients? Why?
* Have these drunken patients every created any trouble to you? What did you do if it happened?
The director of local Pubwatch scheme:
* How effective do you think the scheme can help hospital solve the drunken patients problem?
* How effective in general does the scheme help people regarding their drinking behaviour?
* How much do the participants need to pay to join the scheme?
* How does the scheme work? For example, will any guards be staying at the entrance of the pub or local pub to check people’s identity who want to enter?
* What do pub owners’ attitudes towards the scheme? How do you work with them? Does the scheme affect their business?
Online:
* A comprehensive summary of the story, regularly updated as information becomes available.
* Web links guiding readers to appropriate sources of information such as the hospital's website, the scheme.
* Cross refer to your newspaper which will carry a full story.
* Start an online reader poll and asking readers whether they agree with hospital’s decision to join in the local pubwatch scheme?
* Invite a doctor from the hospital to write up a blog of the experience which he/she may be insulted by the drunken patients or he/she saw patients are drunken.
* Create an online photo gallery to show a series of pictures of the hospital, the pub, or patients drinking beer and create troubles.
Video:
* Video interviews with key players, such as the manager of the hospital, the patient, and the local Pubwatch scheme director.
* Video a councillor or local MP commenting on the issue.
* Video patients giving sound-bite views of the hospital’s decision.
* Video reporter doing a piece of camera in front of the pubs to introduce and tell the story.
* Video the pub inside and explaining patients from the hospital are usually sitting there to drink beer.
* Video some beers on the tables, and then using figures (the figures show how many patients drinking beers across the city) together to show audience how the beer can affect patients behave oddly.
Other digital interaction:
* Use SMS text messages to break the story and guiding the recipients to your website or newspaper for more information
* Send an e-mail alert to reader subscribers with a link to your website story.
* Invite readers to send back in their text messages of their views and publish them on your website or in the paper.
* Ask your editor to comment on the story in his print and online publication.
* Set up a Facebook page to invite readers to comment.
* Set up a Twitter account to update the twit and comment on the issue.
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