Six Continents is poised to spin off its pubs and bars unit from the hotel business later this month.
Enterprise Inns, Britain's largest pub owner, said it would buy 1,860 pubs from Laurel Pub Holdings, a unit of Deutsche Bank's private equity group, for £875 million, or $1.26 billion.
Less like a hospital, Abbott jokes, than the Chatsworth's local pub, the Jockey, the unit's psychiatric approach was pretty crude.
The glass size has also increased significantly in pubs and restaurants and a unit of wine is akin to less than half a glass.
The Guildford pub bombings occurred in 1974, when an IRA unit planted bombs in two pubs in Guildford, Surrey, and the resulting explosions killed four soldiers and one civilian, and injured 50 others.
"While out on patrol, control room call up: people refusing to leave a pub, staff want assistance, any unit free to deal?
"It was about word of mouth, what people were talking about in the pub," says Helena Tinker, an environment unit manager in Kirklees.
Units include cafes, banks and pubs as well as shops, while vacancy rates apply only to shops.
And if armed with a calculator, three deep at the bar, you would discover that a standard glass of wine in a pub is now 2.3 units as at 175ml, it is 50ml larger than it was in 1985 and on average 5% stronger.
Forensic experts are being asked by the West Midlands Counter Terrorism Unit to review evidence in the Birmingham pub bombings.
