Let's face it, there's no time like Christmas to highlight the 'socialising in a pub versus the living room' debate. Locked with the extended family...
Foundation Inns, the pub company funded through tax efficient EIS subscriptions, has put its Noble Pub Fund on hold as a result of the credit crunch....
'Two weekends to save the high street', screamed a headline from my newspaper on Saturday. If the weather over the weekend wasn't enough to tip even...
Torquay licensees are bucking the downward trend with innovative ideas to get customers into their pubs. One operator, Jim Burkett at the Sportsmans...
The plight of Britain's pubs has alarmed so many Labour MPs that no fewer than four ministers have agreed to separate talks with industry leaders to...
Those who are looking for specific legislative detail in the speech that the Queen read out last week do not perhaps understand the way Government works, says Peter Coulson.
Problem pubs could be shut for three months under tough new powers that came into force this week — the powers extend crack-house closure powers to other problem premises.
Herbert Asquith was not the likeliest politician to drive through legislation aimed at tempering the nation's drinking habits. Often observed swaying...
Part-time pubs are becoming more common as venues struggle to make a profit on quiet days, new research has revealed. Nearly one in 10 licensees told...
A Lancashire licensee, victim of an alleged brutal assault in his own pub, is outraged after his underage attacker was let off with a reprimand. The...
Traditional pub signs may be dying out amid "bland corporate makeovers" - but they are England's number one icon, a new poll has revealed. In a poll...
The pubco model is not working well, especially in the current economic climate, and the beer tie should be phased out, MPs were told by ALMR boss Nick Bish.
Mark Day, Head of Leisure and Licensed Property Valuations at the Valuation Office Agency (VOA), answers questions on the forthcoming revaluation of business rates and how this might affect your pub.
The claims have been denied by the Valuation Office Agency, which says it is in close contact with the trade it's easy to seek reductions in rateable value
The Society of Independent Brewers (SIBA) has become the latest group to back The Publican's Make it The Minimum campaign. At a SIBA council meeting...
On-trade drink sales have continued their depressing decline with a drop in volumes of 8% for the year to the end of September, according to Nielsen....
Will 2009 be the year that pubs at last gain a place at the centre of the political agenda like that other great British institution, the post office, asks John Grogan.
A group of woman were barred from a city centre pub after door staff decided they were "too old". The 15-strong group, a mixture of middle-aged women...
An entrepreneurial licensee has launched the ultimate pub quiz - offering the lease to his sixteenth century inn as the grand prize.The winner of the...
