16-Oct-2008 By Tony Halstead
Police claim criminals still operate protection rackets at pubs and clubs, despite tough vetting and registration procedures of doormen introduced...
16-Oct-2008 By Andrew Pring
Licensees are facing increasing pressure from local authorities, environmental health officers, police and even residents. And reviews of pub...
Publicans invest in yacht to keep their business afloat
15-Oct-2008
Two entrepreneurial licensees are taking their pub out to sea in a bid to buoy up trade and offer their customers a unique experience. Peter and Gill...
14-Oct-2008 By Ewan Turney
Whitbread appears to be bucking the current trend of decline with sales at its pub restaurant division up by 6.4% for the first half year.
14-Oct-2008 By John Harrington
Good food, good beer has helped Gloucestershire pub the Golden Heart become the Good Pub Guide's Pub of the Year.
Pub closures leading to "unwanted" customers
14-Oct-2008 By James Wilmore
The current glut of pub closures is leading to other venues getting new "unwanted" customers, a pubco security manager revealed today. With latest...
Talk of the town
13-Oct-2008 By Hamish Champ
Faith can be sorely tested when times are tough. And few would contend that these are tough times for many in the licensed on-trade. But London Town...
'Row over pub's squirrel stew'
13-Oct-2008 By James Wilmore
A pub landlord has been swamped with abusive emails after serving squirrel to kids. Chef Gareth Eddy cooked grey squirrel in a stew with dumplings...
TV's Jon Snow helps save his local pub
10-Oct-2008
TV newsreader Jon Snow has helped saved his favourite pub after leading outraged locals into battle.The Channel 4 newsman last night hailed it a...
Fears over Scots pub closures
10-Oct-2008 By James Wilmore
More than 10 per cent of Scottish pubs, clubs and restaurants could have shut by the time the new Licensing Act takes effect next year, a trade group...
10-Oct-2008 By John Harrington
Channel 4 newsreader Jon Snow has saved his favourite pub from development after leading outraged locals into battle. Snow hailed it a "great day for...
London Town reopening 38 pubs
09-Oct-2008 By The PMA Team
London Town, which has an estate of 205 tenanted pubs and 61 managed pubs, has reopened 30 closed pubs this year — and has eight more it will...
London: Capital gains
09-Oct-2008
London is a terrific city with a fantastic brewing history, which we at Fuller's are proud to be continuing. Fuller's is London's last remaining...
Talking pubs with Parky
09-Oct-2008
You wouldn't necessarily know you were in Michael Parkinson's pub.The Royal Oak, in Paley Street, Berkshire, contains not a single signed photo of...
BBPA highlights "what's going on in the real world
09-Oct-2008
A senior trade figure has today launched a fresh attack on the government's figures used within the Safe, Sensible, Social consultation. Speaking at...
Pubs face A-board ban
09-Oct-2008 By Matt Eley Matt
Pubs have been warned they face huge fines if they do not remove A-boards from outside their premises because blind people could walk into them.City...
Desperate publicans claim squatters' rights
09-Oct-2008
Two Licensees facing eviction from their pub are refusing to leave and are claiming squatters' rights.Alison Hobbs and Sean Crawford said they were...
Tougher trading for Premium Bars and Restaurants
09-Oct-2008
The tough trading conditions and rising costs faced by the pub trade have hit the full year performance at Premium Bars and Restaurants.Chairman Mark...
Pub to be converted into Islamic centre
09-Oct-2008
A burnt out pub will be the latest venue to be converted into a religious centre, after being bought by an Islamic association. The Skinny Dog in...
09-Oct-2008 By Martyn Leek
Premium Bars & Restaurants has this morning posted pre-tax losses of £21.4m, announced the resignation of executive chairman Mark Jones and...
08-Oct-2008 By Ewan Turney
A multiple Enterprise lessee is to end his 10-day hunger strike in protest against "exorbitant" rents and "steep" beer prices at 6pm this evening — the pubco maintains it has offered every support possible.
Bank of England cuts interest rate to 4.5 per cent
08-Oct-2008 By Hamish Champ
The Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee has voted to cut its interest rate by half a percentage point to 4.5 per cent.The move comes as five...
Shepherd Neame profits slide
08-Oct-2008 By Hamish Champ
Kent brewer Shepherd Neame has blamed a slump in operating profits on rising input costs and warned it sees little hope of an improvement in market...
Licensee wins back £7,000 owed to her by pubco
08-Oct-2008
A licensee owed nearly £7,000 by her pubco has finally had the money returned after a year of disputes.Sheila Lennox-Boyd sold the Brunel in...
08-Oct-2008 By Ewan Turney
Increasing costs, the smoking ban and the credit crunch have combined to make it as difficult a year as anyone in the industry can remember, according to Shepherd Neame boss Jonathan Neame.
Mark Daniels: When good kids go bad
07-Oct-2008
It disturbed me greatly this weekend to read, on one day, in the same newspaper, of two separate stories of mindless violence, both of which were...
Selling the industry short
06-Oct-2008 By Hamish Champ
What a difference 12 months can make. A year ago next week, shares in Punch Taverns were trading at 11 quid, those of Enterprise Inns at nearly...
Pub stocks slide again as gloom worsens
06-Oct-2008 By Hamish Champ
Shares in listed pubcos took another battering today as the stock market responded to yet more bad news surrounding the consumer, the viability of...
'Ailing village pubs encouraged to diversify and seek grants to survive'
06-Oct-2008
Pubs in villages across England and Wales are being encouraged to apply for grants as community meeting places and other local facilities to help...
National Alcohol Awareness Week gets underway in Scotland
06-Oct-2008
National Alcohol Awareness Week has been launched in Scotland with the focus this year on encouraging everyone to take responsibility for their own...
06-Oct-2008 By John Harrington
Bristol barman Danny Walker has been crowned the world's best bartender in a competition run by Czech beer brand Pilsner Urquell. Walker, of the...
06-Oct-2008 By Ewan Turney
A total of 2,638 pubs will close next year if the Government does not take action and follow a four point rescue plan — that is the stark warning...
Industry meltdown?
05-Oct-2008 By Hamish Champ
Lemmings. That's how one City analyst described the investment community last week as shares in pubcos - and most other listed companies - dived...
03-Oct-2008 By Roger Protz
A 20-year-old Orkney Brewery beer is now being criticised by the Portman Group for its name and its abv, reports Roger Protz.
02-Oct-2008 By The PMA Team
Tenanted pubco resilience is being tested by buffeting of the bottom tier, says The PMA Team.
02-Oct-2008 By Andrew Pring
If pubcos are to survive then the bosses at the top of those companies need to listen to their most talented operations managers, says Andrew Pring.
02-Oct-2008 By Ewan Turney
Scottish Nationalist Party plans to raise the off-trade purchase age to 21 are set for a rough ride in Parliament today.
Publican makes her dry sales sizzle
02-Oct-2008
A publican has turned up the heat on her food sales by creating a silly sausages night.Naomi Katze, licensee of the Drayman's Arms in Spalding,...
The final nail in the coffin
01-Oct-2008
A desperate publican has gone on hunger strike and taken to sleeping in a coffin after being told he will be evicted by his pubco.Colm Powell has...
'Pub chain helps out licensees'
01-Oct-2008
Britain's second-biggest pub group said it was offering special concessions to 850 licensees during current trading conditions. Enterprise Inns,...
01-Oct-2008 By John Harrington
Government insists new regime for handling complaints, in place of the now defunct energywatch, will offer a better system but concerns still exist that the new Consumer Direct only offers a limited service to businesses.
Victory for bar in polycarbonate case
30-Sep-2008 By Matt Eley Matt
A venue is celebrating after a court ruled it should not be forced to serve drinks in polycarbonates. Ferdinand Konig, who runs the bar 24/7 in St...
'Pub calls time on equine regular'
30-Sep-2008
A Tyneside pub has called time on one of its regular visitors after the premises were refurbished. Peggy, a 12-year-old mare, used to enjoy a pint of...
30-Sep-2008 By Ewan Turney
A Scottish pub has received a special plaque from Camra today as a reward for appearing in all 35 Good Beer Guides. The Fisherman's Tavern in...
Back in business
29-Sep-2008 By Hamish Champ
Tucked away on page 17 of Cains Beer Company's last annual report and accounts appears what turned out to be a prescient warning from Mazars,...
Administrators warn of a bumpy ride ahead
29-Sep-2008 By Hamish Champ
The news that brothers Sudarghara and Ajmail Dusanj had bought Cains Beer Company back out of administration caused a mighty kerfuffle.Many wondered...
City waits on US 'bail out' vote
29-Sep-2008 By Hamish Champ
The vote on the proposed US$700bn 'bail out' of the US banking system is being keenly awaited by City analysts, desperate for some good news for the...
Drink sales down 6.5 per cent at Globe Pub Co
29-Sep-2008
The Robert Tchenguiz-owned Globe Pub Company said year-on-year drinks sales for the three months to August 2008 fell more than six per cent compared...
More high profile industry casualties are likely, warn experts
29-Sep-2008 By Hamish Champ
Insolvency experts are predicting a sharp rise in the number of pub and bar operators going under in the coming months.The warning comes as trading...
29-Sep-2008 By John Harrington
The Highways Agency has dismissed reports that it wants to ban roadside ads for pubs to halt drink-driving. The Agency objected to a retrospective...
