Pub Bitch: Has Tuppen joined the Spiders from Mars?
01-Feb-2010
Mine-tasting Perhaps the most bizarre charity tie-up of the week landed on my desk recently. A wine-tasting event to fund the removal of landmines...
Mark Daniels: An Englishman, Irish and Scotsman celebrated...
01-Feb-2010
I haven't touched a good whisky since Christmas Eve 1997. Not, you understand, because I'm some secret Government agent with a vendetta against...
Green shoots - or just a bit of mould?
01-Feb-2010 By Hamish Champ
While obviously welcome, last week's news that the UK economy had edged ever so slightly out of recession during the last quarter with growth of 0.1...
Paralysed charity worker gets pub's support
01-Feb-2010 By Matt Eley Matt
A paralysed charity worker could be flown back to England to receive the specialist care he needs thanks to the fundraising efforts of a pub. Dan...
'Pubs in soft drink 'rip-offs' with £2.60 a pint cola'
01-Feb-2010 By Matt Eley Matt
Pubs in soft drink 'rip-offs' with £2.60 a pint cola. Pubs are ripping off customers by charging up to £2.60 a pint for non-alcoholic drinks....
First Sheffield Best Bar None winners announced
01-Feb-2010 By Matt Eley Matt
The Frog & Parrot in Sheffield has come out on top in the pub category in the city's first ever Best Bar None scheme. It beat city centre venue...
01-Feb-2010 By John Harrington
A small business lobby group has called for plans to scrap the default retirement age to be shelved. The Government has proposed removing an...
29-Jan-2010 By The PMA Team
All the latest gossip and rumour from the City.
29-Jan-2010 By Ewan Turney
The "two strikes and you're out" rule on underage alcohol sales comes in to force today. Councillors and licensing officers can now also call for a licence reviews themselves, rather than wait for local people or police to raise concerns.
29-Jan-2010 By Lesley Foottit
Two North Wales pubs must decide between prosecution or a weekend shutdown after failing three underage sting tests over two months. The case is a...
'Strong interest' in Elizabeth pub sale
28-Jan-2010 By The PMA Team
The agent selling the 13 pubs belonging to Elizabeth Estates, which fell into administration in December, has reported "strong interest". GVA...
28-Jan-2010 By Lesley Foottit
The Frog and Parrot has been crowned Best Bar None at the inaugural Sheffield City Centre's Best Bar None Awards. The awards ceremony took place...
28-Jan-2010 By John Harrington
Hundreds of pubs are set to receive the new channel Sky 3D from April. A preview is to take place in the Arsenal v Manchester United clash on Sunday.
Licensee faces £6,000 pay-out over cancelled Sky
27-Jan-2010 By James Wilmore
A distraught licensee is facing an upcoming pay-out of around £6,000 to Sky, despite quitting her pub last year. Julie Crane, who ran Bar 44, in...
Public see 'aggressive' supermarket offers as a problem
26-Jan-2010 By James Wilmore
Supermarkets' "aggressive promotions" are causing people to drink more at home and "sleepwalk" into alcohol dependency, a new report suggests. The...
'UK recession finally over'
26-Jan-2010 By Matt Eley Matt
Britain's economy finally exited its deepest recession since the 1930s in the fourth quarter of last year, growing by just 0.1% compared to the...
26-Jan-2010 By Gemma McKenna
A Greene King host who stole more than £15,000 from a village post office has been allowed to keep her pub by the pubco. Julia Jones, of the Ibex...
26-Jan-2010 By Gemma McKenna
National Pubwatch chairman Steve Baker has urged Justice Secretary Jack Straw to get tougher on thugs who assault licensees when reviewing how cases...
26-Jan-2010 By Ewan Turney
Cornish brewer St Austell has rewarded two of its licensees for outstanding achievement with a new Director's Award. The award, handed out for the...
25-Jan-2010 By Lesley Foottit
More than 23,000 application packs for National ID cards - billed as the ideal ID for alcohol sales - have been requested. The news comes as the controversial scheme is set to be rolled out in London on 8 February.
Albion consolidates pub estates
25-Jan-2010 By The PMA Team
Albion Ventures has consolidated its pub portfolio to be managed by Bravewood Pub Management Company Limited. The 34-pub estate will be managed by...
Pub Bitch: 'Fill my cups' promotion causes a stir in Singapore, and BBPA Framework to help people run empty pubs?
25-Jan-2010
They must be in their cups... The mandatory code might be about to make life hell for UK pubs but at least in some parts of the world life goes on as...
More mergers mooted for 2010
25-Jan-2010 By Hamish Champ
Last week's multi-billion pound bid for Cadbury by US food giant Kraft highlighted that everything has its price. Cadbury had been resolute in...
Albion Ventures unifies management of pub businesses
25-Jan-2010 By Hamish Champ
Albion Ventures, the venture capitalist owner of Bravo Inns and the Charnwood Pub Company, has brought the management of the two businesses under one...
Staff record single in bid to buy pub
25-Jan-2010 By Matt Eley Matt
Staff fighting to keep their pub open have recorded a single in a bid to raise £100,000 to buy the freehold. 'The Torrianos' are calling on 200,000...
Host has noise abatement order overturned
25-Jan-2010 By Gemma McKenna
A licensee in East Sussex has succeeded in having a noise abatement order overturned. Tim Whitehouse of the White Hart in Lower Horsebridge, said...
Principle Leisure buys Sunderland site
22-Jan-2010 By The PMA Team
North-east multiple Principle Leisure, which runs ten pubs and restaurants, has bought Aspire in Sunderland's Low Row for an undisclosed amount....
Grooming your business for sale
22-Jan-2010 By Hamish Champ
There's no doubt that good pub industry operators who make a decent fist of things enjoy what they do. After all, what's not to like? Building up a...
Pubs reminded of free PRS dispute system
22-Jan-2010 By James Wilmore
Licensees who feel they have been unfairly treated by music fee collection firm the Performing Rights Society (PRS) are being reminded they can...
22-Jan-2010 By John Harrington
Licences of 54 venues were suspended for up to 48 hours over a 12 month period for persistently selling alcohol to children. A further 12 had their...
21-Jan-2010 By John Harrington
If you think the trade's failed to get its act together to present a unified front, take a look along the corridors of Westminster, says John Harrington.
Pete Robinson: Mandatory madness
21-Jan-2010
Consultation, in Nu-Labour parlance, means "we'll pretend to listen to you then we'll do whatever the hell we want". If you're lucky you may even get...
Mark Daniels: Water water everywhere...
21-Jan-2010
The Government's new Mandatory Code appears to have got Publicans in to a bit of a lather and the histrionics have reached new levels not even seen...
New pubco code promises "transparency
21-Jan-2010 By James Wilmore
Current and would-be licensees are being promised more "transparency" from pubcos, after an agreement on industry best practice was reached. The...
20-Jan-2010 By Peter Linacre
Peter Linacre asks why the wholesale price of beer in the UK doesn't decrease as the demand for beer declines.
BII boss looks forward after "challenging" first year
20-Jan-2010 By Matt Eley Matt
Considering the year the industry has just endured, you couldn't blame Neil Robertson if he admitted to regretting taking on the role of BII chief...
Flood victims get boost from CAMRA
20-Jan-2010
CAMRA will be holding a charity auction this Friday at the National Winter Ales Festival, Manchester, to raise money for the victims of the Cumbria...
Licensee swaps pub for pulpit
20-Jan-2010
A licensee is set to be let loose on a different crowd of punters when he takes part in a job swap with the local vicar. Lee Bartlett, licensee at...
Mark Daniels: Politicians v The Pub
19-Jan-2010
When I was in my youth - and, for the purposes of this example, we'll say up to the age of 27 - I never considered myself to be a politically...
'All-you-can-drink pub offers facing ban'
19-Jan-2010 By Matt Eley Matt
Pub and club promotions that encourage binge drinking will be banned within months in a government retreat from its policy of liberalising licensing...
Christmas proves profitable for leading pub operators
18-Jan-2010 By Hamish Champ
The UK's leading pub operators had a bumper Christmas, according to the latest survey tracking the fortunes of the licensed sector. According to the...
Brulines founder buys Smartcellar
18-Jan-2010 By Hamish Champ
Derrick Collin, founder of beer flow monitoring group Brulines, has bought Smartcellar for an undisclosed sum. Speaking about the deal, Collin, who...
18-Jan-2010 By Roger Protz
Support for pubs will help preserve a uniquely British institution, as well as redirect the fight against alcohol abuse, says Roger Protz.
15-Jan-2010 By Lesley Foottit
Lesley Foottit talks to Bath Ales retail operations manager Robin Couling about the company's new concept, Graze.
15-Jan-2010 By MA reporter
The year ahead — the industry's movers and shakers predict what 2010 will hold for our battered trade.
15-Jan-2010 By The PMA Team
Trade creditors of Regent Inns, which was restructured via a pre-pack administration in October, are owed £4.05m, according to documents filed by...
15-Jan-2010 By Jay Smith
Pub operator Jay Smith set about galvanising community spirit in five UK villages to save their local pub as part of a TV series called Save our...
14-Jan-2010 By Gemma McKenna
Gemma McKenna looks at how licensees coped with the recent snow, ice and sub-zero temperatures.
14-Jan-2010 By The PMA Team
All the latest gossip and rumour from the City.
14-Jan-2010 By Phil Mellows
Predictions ahead of Christmas were cautiously optimistic, but the economic climate combined and poor weather produced patchy performances.
