Bar signs up to no-glass campaign

Blake Golding's father says he is mentally scarred

The bar where a doorman was attacked with a broken bottle is to stop serving drinks in glasses or glass bottles.

It is the first success for Blake Golding's family's campaign to stop late-night venues in Milton Keynes using glass to serve drinks.

The campaign began after Mr Blake was scarred for life in the attack outside Bar-Me on Christmas Day 2004. He has been unable to work full-time since.

Bar-Me, in the theatre district, will be all-plastic within two months.

It has left him mentally scarred and he really is having a tough time Robert Golding

In four months more than 10,000 people have signed the Goldings' petition urging all late-night licensed venues to switch. The intend to take the petition to Downing Street with 250,000 signatories.

Mr Golding's parents, Robert and Marjorie, began their campaign as their son recovered from four hours of surgery.

He needed 40 stitches in his face and lost four pints of blood when he was attacked as he went to the aid of a female colleague.

Mrs Golding said the response and Bar-Me's support was very encouraging.

Mr Golding said their son was still badly affected by the attack: "He is up and running but has not worked full-time since Christmas. It has left him mentally scarred and he really is having a tough time."

His attacker, Jamie Palmer, of Milton Keynes, was sentenced to two years in prison in June 2005.

Mr and Mrs Golding hope their campaign leads to a change in legislation which stops other families from going through a similar ordeal.