A round with The Publican

What made the news in The Publican this week 10 years ago, five years ago and last year.1995Licensees with children's certificates are told they...

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

1995

  • Licensees with children's certificates are told they could be falling foul of the law by opening their doors to families on Sunday afternoons
  • Edinburgh licensees welcome a proposal to cut back late pub closing times to 1am from March 1996
  • United Breweries unveils new expansion plans after announcing vastly reduced trading losses.

2000

  • Shadow Chancellor Michael Portillo teams up with The Publican to gauge the views of the pub trade on key issues
  • Publicans are advised to take down "No travellers" signs after a court ruling that Irish travellers are covered by racism laws
  • A skeleton found in the Aubrey Arms in Ystradgynlais, Powys, is identified as a woman who disappeared 27 years ago.

2004

  • The pub industry reveals how a growing number of training firms are failing to live up to promises given to licensees, in an exclusive Publican investigation
  • A licensee who led 100 local people to safety during floods in Boscastle, Cornwall, returns to his venue, the Wellington Hotel, to find it completely devastated
  • Twenty-five pubs in trouble-hit Croydon decide not to show an England match following previous disorder.