City’s best bar none (From Durham Times)

City’s best bar none

1:26pm Friday 19th June 2009

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DURHAM City has shown the rest of the county the way in its successful adoption of the Best Bar None awards, a scheme which encourages best practice in the bar, pub and club industry.

Pioneered in Manchester, the scheme has spread quickly around the country but Durham City is the first in this part of the world to adopt it.

As assistant chief constable Michael Barton said at Tuesday’s night’s award ceremony, it produces tangible results.

Night-time violence in the centre is down and so are violence- related admissions at the city’s hospital.

Along with other initiatives, like the introduction of marshals at the city’s taxi ranks, it has succeeded in making the city centre a safer, less threatening place to be of an evening and that’s vital to the sustainable growth of the night-time economy, now of growing importance to the local economy as a whole.

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