Marketing agents for the £2.5m building Fleurets had previously said BrewDog was taking on a joint venture with Red’s True Barbecue, which was brought out of administration by Aaron Mellor of Tokyo Industries, who owns the nightclub building. At the time it was announced that he was forming the venture with BrewDog on the ground floor.
BrewDog Lincoln has had a Facebook profile picture saying “Coming Soon” since 2020, but there have been no official updates since. The former Tokyo nightclub on Silver Street is also still listed on the market, and Fleurets said no deals were yet in place with any businesses for the unit.
BrewDog CEO James Watt said the 12 sites under construction are Atlanta, Waterloo, Brisbane, Paris, Basingstoke, Las Vegas, three in India, Berlin, Hull, Cork. Work will start on Lincoln, Ipswich, and Durham soon.
We currently have 12 sites under construction with 3 due to start imminently too.
Atlanta (pictured), Waterloo, Brisbane, Paris, Basingstoke, Las Vegas, 3 in India, Berlin, Hull, Cork with Ipswich, Lincoln & Durham starting soon.
BrewDog was founded in 2007 by James Watt and Martin Dickie, who together own more than 40% of the company. In 2018 the firm opened the world’s first craft beer hotel in Columbus, Ohio.
Mr Watt was embroiled in controversy earlier this year when a BBC Scotland Disclosure Documentary – ‘The Truth About BrewDog’ – accused him of inappropriate behaviour and abuse of power in the workplace. The BrewDog boss later apologised to anyone who felt uncomfortable because of his behaviour, but hit out at “false rumours and misinformation”, according to BBC.
The BBC published claims which are totally false & they published them despite the extensive evidence we provided to demonstrate that they were false.
Reluctantly, I am now forced to take legal action against the BBC to protect my reputation.
The BrewDog founder has since formally complained to media regulator Ofcom “over a string of unfounded personal attacks on his character”. He has also filed a formal complaint direct to the BBC.
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Nominations are open for schools and education settings to be recognised in the 2022 Lincolnshire Education Excellence Awards.
The event is organised by Stonebow Media, publishers of The Lincolnite, to celebrate the best school and teachers in Greater Lincolnshire.
The headline sponsors making the awards possible are Lincoln College Group.
Twelve categories are now open for nominations. The deadline for nominations is June 3, with a judging lunch scheduled for June 7.
Nominations are open from parents, carers, friends, families or education settings themselves, so if you know someone who deserving of winning now is the time to vote!
The awards ceremony will be held at the Engine Shed on July 7.
It’s been a week since the controversial statue of Margaret Thatcher was installed in Grantham’s St Peter’s Hill.
The £300,000 bronze monument immediately caused a stir and debate from both supporters and opponents of the first female Prime Minister of the UK.
Within hours of its 7am installation last Sunday, it had already been egged by a man later revealed to be 59-year-old Jeremy Webster, a deputy director at the Attenborough Arts Centre at the University of Leicester.
Mr Webster’s mother-in-law recently described his actions as “childish”.
Quoted in the MailOnline she said: “Margaret Thatcher lasted a long time in power. She was a trailblazer as the first woman prime minister and she had such energy, even though I know she slept very little.
“I’m very surprised to hear about all of this [egg throwing]. I’m going to have to call my daughter. I wouldn’t have thought Jeremy would be the sort of person to do this. It seems very childish to me – he has a responsible job.”
There have been reports of other antisocial behaviour taking place including people urinating up the statue, but investigations into these are yet to be confirmed by officials.
Away from the statue itself, others took to social media to react to the new monument.
Twitterer @BolsoverBeast thought Mr Webster’s actions should be expanded as a way to… get more people involved?
I think it would be a good idea to put Thatcher’s statue on a low loader and tow it slowly around the country so that we all have a chance to throw something at it. pic.twitter.com/uftMqr0LgR
— Chloe Schlosberg (@ChloeSchlosberg) May 19, 2022
Some called back to the fate of other statues
@Irritatedllama called back to the fate of slave trader Edward Colston who was thrown into the Bristol Harby in June 2020.
It's absolutely disgraceful that people are throwing eggs at the Margaret Thatcher statue in Grantham! We need to deploy a taskforce to give it jolly good wash!#Granthampic.twitter.com/RKftKUls4u
It wasn’t long before a parody account of the statue was set up on Twitter – nor before “she” was interacting with other parody accounts.
It was awful. I could see almost all of Grantham
— That Statue of Thatcher (@thatcher_statue) May 18, 2022
A… positive view?
There were supporters of the statue, however, Darren Grimes from GBNews was one of the few popular posts calling on people not to “give in to threats of petty vandalism”. He later posted the statue should be in parliament – where it was previously rejected from.
I honestly think Margaret Thatcher would have found this first round of petty vandalism of her statue to be utterly hilarious.
The statue looks absolutely glorious.
Almost a decade on from her passing, she’s still winding them up!
Some, like @Jonnyhibberd were more measured in their response.
I don't see a problem with a Thatcher statue and I also don't see a problem with people throwing eggs at it. Thatcher is an important part of our history, and so is what a lot of people thought about her.
— Jonathan Hibberd 🇺🇦 (@Jonnyhibberd) May 18, 2022
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