UK Embassy: Beer and Cigarettes
The small and largely uninabited island of Redonda in the Carribean is enforcing a new smoking ban which will affect a popular British-owned pub. How do the owners intend to get around this rule? Make the bar British territory by declaring it the official embassy. What an odd story; read it below.
A pub landlord hopes to get round the new smoking ban by turning his premises into the official British embassy of a remote Caribbean island.
Bob Beech wants to turn The Wellington Arms in Freemantle, Southampton, into the UK base of the uninhabited Redonda.
It follows the pub already being granted status as a consulate of Redonda by the island’s king and Mr Beech receiving a Redondan knighthood.
But his plans are likely to be thwarted by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.
The landlord said: "We came up with the idea that this pub could become the British consulate for the Kingdom of Redonda - and the king thought it was a good idea.
"We had a ceremony for that and I was made a knight.
source Tags: cigarettes, beer, british embassy, redonda, carribean
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