A round with The Publican

What made the news in The Publican this week 10 years ago, five years ago and last year.

1994​

• Licensees in Brixton, Camberwell and Clapham in South London ban mobile phones in a bid to stamp out drug dealing in pubs.
• The Inntrepreneur Lessees' Action Group sends questionnaires to 5,000 lessees in a bid to prove the firm's 20-year lease is unfair.
• Leeds publicans Steve and Lorna Earley set out plans to brew the world's strongest lager and ale at their pub, the Fox and Newt Brewhouse.

1999​

• Riverside pubs in London are urged to secure public safety amid fears that revellers will jump in the River Thames on millennium night.
• Punch withdraws a quarter of a million "Wactvity" kids' party packs from its Wacky Warehouse venues after many are found to contain obscene messages, scrawled by prison inmates while filling them.
• Police and publicans in North Yorkshire push for 16-year-olds to be given the same rights as adults to buy alcohol in pubs.

2003​

• Licensee Gary Marlow wins a High Court legal battle with rock star Van Morrison, after the singer pulls out of a gig at the Crown Hotel in Everleigh, Wiltshire.
• Pubs are told they must wait at least a decade before they can rely on the new national ID card scheme as proof of age.
• Michael Howard makes one of his first public appearances as the new Tory leader - behind the bar of the King's Head in Hythe, Kent at a charity event.