A round with The Publican

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.