The local Campaign for Real Ale group is backing calls for a review of the current system for taxing beer. .
The latest figures show that beer sales fell in 2012 for the eighth year in a row.. three hundred and 81 million fewer pints were drunk in 2012.
Several local pubs are fighting to break even.
CAMRA says it's partly because of the 'escalator tax' on beer which means it goes up each year by a certain amount over and above the rate of inflation- and landlords are forced to pass on the cost to customers, putting beer prices up to unreasonable levels.
Knife scanner deployed at under-18s event
No to Torquay seafront big wheel this summer?
Torbay hospital ‘sewage leaks’ spark call for help
Exmouth dye tests 'harmless to wildlife'
Dartmoor will be “protected” in Freeport zone
Two jailed after late night brawl in Plymouth
