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Pub chief not backing our glass campaign

May 2 2010 by Coreena Ford, Sunday Sun

POLICE forces, pubs and clubs across the North are keen to make socialising safer by calling Last Orders on Glass.

But the British Beer and Pub Association isn’t quite as keen to support us and calls for the scenes of glassings to be shut down instead.

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The Sunday Sun launched its Last Orders on Glass campaign, calling for all pubs and clubs to ditch glass in favour of safer alternatives, after revealing there is at least one glass attack on pub and clubgoers every day in the region.

And we’ve told how glassing incidents have caused untold misery to innocent victims, putting massive pressure on the region’s hospitals and emergency services.

Countless North bars and clubs have switched to polycarbonate or toughened glass, and our campaign has backing from Northumbria Police and Scotland’s largest force Strathclyde Police, which launched their own drive last Friday to introduce toughened glass in all pubs, bars and hotels.

Lee Le Clercq, the North’s regional secretary for the British Beer and Pub Association, however, said: “I don’t like the idea of totally getting rid of glasses.

“There are places where it could be appropriate, where there is high energy and youths, and at sporting events.

“But for the vast majority of UK pubs there are no problems so why should they be made to use alternatives?”

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