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      <image:caption><![CDATA[Thinking Drinkers Ben McFarland Tom Sandham set to cycle from Lands End to John O'Groats (c James O’Connell)]]></image:caption>
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      <image:caption><![CDATA[Sports importance: Daniel Harris from Riverside Sports Bar, winner of PubAid’s Community Sport Hero Award 20225 for Wales]]></image:caption>
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      <image:caption><![CDATA[Government address: MP and Leader of the House Lucy Powell speaks to guests at the BBPA summer party]]></image:caption>
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      <image:caption><![CDATA[Outgoing BII chair Mark Robson calls for Government to change direction]]></image:caption>
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      <image:caption><![CDATA[Finalists revealed in the 2025 Great British Pub Awards]]></image:caption>
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