Northumberland Brewery have announced the availability of a new ale called "Highway Robbery". This follows a couple of chance encounters between Dave Roberts, the brewery boss, and speed cameras.
Dave said: "This is my small protest against unnecessary and unwanted road side mugging machines."
The pump crest shows a speed camera in Dick Turpin guise complete with eye patch and twin pistols.
Paul Smith, founder of the Safe Speed road safety campaign said: "I hope Dave's protest brings the real issues to a wider audience. It's about time that the Government owned up to the fact that they have destroyed the earlier excellent trends in UK road safety."
Paul continues: "It's great to see that the British spirit for light hearted yet effective protest is alive and well and living in Northumberland. We wish Dave Roberts and his team every success with the new beer."
Dave said: "Stagecoaches used to run from York to Edinburgh and highwaymen would rob them. Now you can get robbed and not even know about it until the letter comes through the post demanding £60!"
-- "Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves." (William Pitt,
1783)