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Summer 2003 No. 311: The Brown Stuff: Beware the Enemy Within!; The Broad Arrow; 30th Cambridge Beer Festival: Before, During and After; Pub News including the Branch Pub of the Year 2003; Brewery & Pubco News; Letters; Historic York; Political Westminster; Licensing Bill - Time Called; Adnams Export?; Historic Pub Interiors
No. 310: 30th Cambridge Beer Festival Programme: Press Release : Cambridge Evening News; Festivals Past - a history of the Cambridge Beer Festival
ALE Spring 2003 No. 309: 30th Cambridge Beer Festival - About the logo; Winter Ale Festival 2003; News from Ely; National Pubs Week - East Anglia Survey; Licensing Bill; CAMRA's Survey on Licensing Hours; Licensing - a Brief History; Full Pints - The Saga Continues; Prices Surveys 2002: Cambridge & District Branch Prices Survey 2002 - CAMRA National Prices Survey 2002 - Datamonitor International Prices Survey 2002; Letters to the Editor: Letter 1 : Green Man - Letter 2 : Hare & Hounds - Letter 3 : Green Man; Lost & Found at the Winter Ale Festival; The wandering of the Beer Festival Organiser in Yeovil, Somerset; Inspiring Oxford; You're Never Too Youngs - a tour of Southwest London; Mild in May; New CAMRA book: Stout & Porter; Industry News; St George's Day; The Merry Monk Changes Its Habit - Isleham; The Pressure Is Off - Soham; Pub news - Cambridge; A Bereavement; A Real Ale Research Trip - Arbury & West Chesterton; The Brown Stuff: Biting the Hand That Feeds You!; The Grauniad: CAMRA's Zeitgeist?; The Drip Tray
ALE Winter 2002/2003 No. 308: Ely Sub-branch Pub of the Year; Continental Beer Styles: Belgian & Dutch Pale Ales; A Weekend in Bruges; Central London Pubs : Bloomsbury Ramble - Index of Recent Reviews; Cask Marque News; Licensing Bill; Branch Good Beer Guide 2003 entries; Gamekeeper Turns Poacher; Letter: The Green Man; Pub news - Cambridge; First-day Review of "B"; Quantity or quality?; CAMRA Investment Club; The Brown Stuff: Reduce the tax on booze - to beat the blues!; The Drip Tray
ALE Summer 2002 No. 307: Hale Ninkasi!; City of Cambridge Brewery - Relocation; Government Watch; The Brown Stuff: Magical Masham!; A Real Research Trip; Cantillon Brewery Trip; Continental Beer Styles : The Sour Beers Of Flanders; Homebrew Info; Central London Pubs : Another Update - Holborn Ramble; The Drip Tray; Who is Ralf?
No. 306: 29th Cambridge Beer Festival Programme
Spring 2002 No. 305: Behind the Scenes at the Cambridge Beer Festival; Bill Miller; Lambic Monster in the Low Countries; Public House Viability Test; Letters 1 - All bad?; Letters 2 - Not Reaching Out?; Letters 3 - What's In a Name?; Cask Marque Update; Fen Ditton Foursome; Best of the West?
Autumn 2001 No. 304: "100% Naturale" / the Great British Beer Festival; Debates; Talk from David Waller of Cask Marque; The Lambic Monster on tour in Munich; Continental Beer Styles : Dark and Smoky Beers; The Outer Reaches - the south-east of the branch area; Pub Reviews : The White Horse, Witcham, Ely
Summer 2001 No. 303: Continental Beer Styles : Weisse; Brewery Trip: Nethergate
No. 302: 28th Cambridge Beer Festival programme: 30 Years of CAMRA
Spring 2001 No. 301: Ask If It's Cask; "About this 'ere parrot..."; Continental Beer Styles : Trappist; Central London Pubs, another in our occasional series on pubs & public transport; Youth Drinking - The Regal; Beacon of Quality
Winter 2000 No. 300: 20 Years On; Continental Beer Styles : Saison; Obituary: the Cow and Calf; Company Profile No. 15 - St Peter's Brewery
Autumn 2000 No. 299: Real Ale: Ł2 a Pint - or is it?; Beerage - All Change; Continental Beer Styles : Lambic; Four go mad in Norfolk
Double Issue: Spring 2000 No. 297 - 27th Cambridge Beer Festival No. 298 (programme): 27th Cambridge Beer Festival - The Beer List; Reaching for Success; City of Cambridge Brewery; A Summer Trip Out by public transport - it can be done!
November 1999 No. 296: Cambridge Winter Ale Festival 2000; The Cambridge Drinking Circuit; The Regal, St Andrews Street; Decadence and Depravity at the Cambridge Beer Festival 1999; The Milton Brewery, Cambridge; Rural Pubs
Double Issue: May 1999 No. 294 -*- 26th Cambridge Beer Festival No. 295 (Programme): Here We Go Round A Different Mulberry Bush; Pub Food; Collectors Corner - The Bass Corkers; St George's Day? - Branch Pub of the Year 1999; Crawls Out of Town - Stamford; Memories of Carlton
February 1999 No. 293: Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush - reviewing the hectic goings on in the pubs industry; Back to Basics - The Pub, part 2; Company Profile no. 14 - Inn Business
November 1998 No. 292: On The Circuit - J.D. Wetherspoon, St. Andrew's Street and Community Pubs; Consumer Surveys; Brewery Closures; Back to Basics - The Pub, part 1; Company Profile no. 13: Guinness
Summer 1998 No. 291: Company Profile No. 12 - Fullers; Back to Basics ... and the rest; Going Dutch
Spring 1998 No. 290: 25th Cambridge Beer Festival; Taxing Times - a Gift for French Brewers; Village Pubs Under Threat; Company Profile No. 11 - Youngs; Protecting Our Pubs; Back to Basics - Bitter

ALE is published by the Cambridge & District Branch of the Campaign for Real Ale.

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Editor for the print edition of ALE 296-date: Steve Linley.
Editor for the print editions of ALE 292-295, Editor for the Web editions of ALE: Ian Kitching.
Editor for the print editions of ALE 282-291: Carl Woolf

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