Nik Chapman, manager of The Cooper Rose and chair of Sunderland’s Pubwatch, has said Pubwatch welcome the move which will have a positive impact on the city. We tried some different orientations, but soon settled on the symmetrical “head-on” one that I’d picked.

Spikeys

Drink spikeys – a brightly coloured device which fits inside the neck of a bottle and to stop the possibility of a drink being spiked – are now available in more than a dozen new licensed premises in the city. But by the 1800s, with atomic theory increasingly established, there began to be serious investigation of crystallography, and of how atoms are arranged in crystals. The addition of tails seems to be recent, but apparently it was common to hang up folk Spikeys in houses, perhaps particularly on festive occasions.

In the first semi-final Lawrence Deans from Innes Spikeys, who was runner-up in the very first Summer Association Singles final in 1974, defeated Chieftain Rebels’ Barry Stuart.

Spikey Anti Spiking Bottle Stoppers - Multicolour (500)

Fife turned up the heat on Moray and ensure runners-up spot in all three leagues with a 19-5 victory overall.The City Taxis Inverness Summer Darts League approaches the half-way stage next week and things are very close in all three divisions. He said: “The anti-drink spiking devices were initially placed in the university bars as a way of promoting safe drinking. The central use of fabrics and sewing needed to make a “60° Spikey” work might argue against an Amerindian or African origin. Ground cover plants are also great for covering tricky sites, such as slopes, which are difficult to access and plant. But what’s the relation between these nested constructions and the actual way physical quasicrystals form?