Re watering the beer, it's probably true Bernard, a few years ago Tetleys did this, it was a triple whammy on the beer drinkers, they lowered the gravity of Tetleys bitter, making it cheaper to produce, pay less duty on it and they put the price up all at the same time.

Mike Harding did some wonderful stuff when he was still doing the folk clubs, when he got the BBC job he just became a management lackey/creep.

Dave H