Booze and diversity don’t seem to mix well in some pubs and clubs that seem to be hotbeds of discrimination.

Drinkers at one working men’s club are accused of jeering and booing women trying to join them for a drink – while another was asked to leave because she upset regulars.

Mill View Social Club, Sunderland, is now under scrutiny from governing body the Club and Institute Union (CIU) for breaching the equality laws for trying to ban women.

Regulars at the club say one bar is reserved exclusively for men and staff are instructed to ignore orders from women buying drinks.

Members at the club are mostly retired miners and shipyard workers.

Drinkers at a The Royal Oak pub in Penrhyndeudraeth, North Wales, were threatened with a gun by the landlord after a row about customers speaking Welsh.

Police were called after the landlord brandished the weapon after arguing with customers protesting  that he had allegedly ordered staff and customers not to speak Welsh in the pub.

The row erupted only two days after a new 25-year-old English manager was installed at the pub by the brewery Marstons. The manager was arrested on suspicion of possessing a firearm with intent to cause fear of violence and was later bailed pending police inquiries.

Penrhyndeudraeth is a small town where Welsh is the first language.

In Swindon, Wiltshire, a man suffering a nerve tremor after recovering from a brain injury has criticised pubs and bars for banning him because they think he is a drunk.

Andrew Thornton, 39, spent weeks in a coma in intensive care after a road accident as a child.

Now, he finds socialising in licensed premises difficult because the staff assume he has already had too much alcohol.

As a result of his protest, managers at some venues want to introduce him to staff to resolve his problem.

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