Welcome back to the Pennine Tavern site. Firstly I'd like to apologise that the site has been offline over the past month. I decided that it was about time that it had a bit of makeover and its taken a lot of time and effort to get this done. There have been lots of changes, and although there don't appear to be many new features available just yet, there are plenty planned over the next month or two. The locals section will soon be expanded to contain a lot more of those familiar faces, and there will also be an online personality questionnaire from which the results will be used for updating profiles and handing out our new monthly awards. One of these awards is "Drinker Of The Month" which will be handed out on a monthly basis to the person that has got the most plastered and done the funniest and most embarassing things.

One thing that you may notice is that the messageboard has been removed. It was originally added to the site so that visitors to the site could participate in a bit of friendly banter. Recently though some people became offended by a number of messages that had been posted and decided to that they wanted to hold me personally responsible for them. I am a strong believer in freedom of speech and feel that I do not have the right to start censoring peoples messages and opinions. I am also not willing to accept responsibility for the messages that people place on the board and the hassle that goes along with it, and it is for these reasons that I have taken the messageboard offline. I currently have a few idea's of things to replace it but I'll tell you more in a few weeks.

The website has been designed and tested with Internet Explorer 5. Some features may not work if you are viewing it through Netscape or on NTL TV-Internet. I'm in the process of adding a new interface to the Photo Archive for these users.