Deaf... And dumb
13-Mar-2008
More pubs to close, supermarkets to continue cheap booze offers, inflation-busting duty rises for years - a disaster says the trade The PMA Team...
13-Mar-2008 By The PMA Team
Chancellor Alistair Darling has dropped a budget bombshell by unveiling a swingeing 4p rise in duty on a pint of beer and pledged to raise duty on...
Publican Live: Show highlights
13-Mar-2008
Catered4thekids is a new catering marque that sets the standards for food, drinks and service in children's menus and family dining. Business...
Publican Live: Kitchen theatre
13-Mar-2008
The theme of this year's live cooking demonstrations, presented by food wholesaler 3663, is 'Profit Through Innovation'. A packed schedule includes...
Publican Live: That's show business
13-Mar-2008
Each year, for the past 11 years, The Publican has organised a live show at which readers can touch and taste the products and and talk to the people...
Playing with fire water
13-Mar-2008
"Have you got any offers on soft drinks?" I ask the barman as I stand in front of a blackboard listing cut-price lagers, shots and spirits in the...
Pubco shares slide in wake of Budget
13-Mar-2008 By Hamish Champ
Shares in a number of listed pub operators and brewers took a hammering today as the cost implications of yesterday's Budget began filtering...
Listen up over noise regs, pubs warned
13-Mar-2008 By Matt Eley Matt
Licensees are being told to listen up as new noise regulations come into force next month. Under the Control of Noise at Work Regulations, which...
Case study: High House Farm, Matfen
13-Mar-2008
For Steve and Sally Urwin, of High House Farm, at Matfen, Northumberland, brewing is more than a way of utilising old buildings or making best use of...
There is a place like home
13-Mar-2008
A sector under pressure, community pubs can be still be warm and inviting places if licensees focus on getting service right. Noli Dinkovski reports...
LETTERs
13-Mar-2008
Tough action to combat bingeing I write with regard to the general hand-wringing over binge/underage drinking that is now a plague on all of our...
MyNewPub
13-Mar-2008
London Inn South Molton, Devon Agent: Christie+Co Deborah See and Toby Bennet have just taken on the London Inn, at South Molton, Devon. The...
The Agents
13-Mar-2008
Mark Greig Managing director, Paramount Investments When people come to sell their pub, they appoint a property agent and wait for offers to come...
Wilts pub rescue bid
13-Mar-2008 By Joe Lutrario joe.lutrario@william-reed.co.uk
The north-west Wiltshire branch of the Campaign for Real Ale (Camra) has launched a campaign to stop the county's oldest pub being turned into...
Looking for lifeline volunteers
13-Mar-2008
The Licensed Trade Charity continues to provide support for those who need it and is constantly on the lookout for volunteer visitors The Licensed...
MyShout
13-Mar-2008
High duty on alcohol is not the cure for social problems - just look at Sweden, says Stephen Oliver Alistair Darling presents his first Budget this...
InBrief
13-Mar-2008
Licensing Act is a failure, say 54% Just one in three licensees believe the Licensing Act has been a success. A poll on www.morningadvertiser.co.uk...
BarTalk
13-Mar-2008
How did this week's storms affect you? Ian Rigg The Taps Lytham Lancashire We expected a rough time, but this part of the world escaped fairly...
Pub gardens must be 'quiet as offices'
13-Mar-2008 By John Harrington john.harrington@william-reed.co.u
Pubs face stringent new noise regulations that dramatically cut permissible levels inside and outside. But advice on how to stick to the regulations...
NewsDigest
13-Mar-2008
The result of a High Court appeal against a magistrate's decision to cut the hours of a Wirral pub is due this week. Lancashire brewer Daniel...
LTC receives £6,000 donation from Licensees Unite
12-Mar-2008 By The PMA Team
Licensees Unite, the organisation previously known as NALHM, has donated £6000 to the Licensed Trade Charity (LTC).
Pete Robinson: A double whammy for Tony Blows
12-Mar-2008
Tony Blows was last week fined a total of £12,000 including costs.By coincidence on the same day Shabbir Merali, owner of Markaz Restaurant and...
'Darling couldn't give a XXXX'
12-Mar-2008
Chancellor Alistair Darling has been accused of "binge-taxing" by the Association of Licensed Multiple Retailers (ALMR) after ramping up tax on beer....
Another nail in the coffin of the traditional British pub
12-Mar-2008 By James Wilmore
The Society of Independent Brewers (SIBA) has said Alistair Darling's first Budget is "yet another nail in the coffin of the traditional British...
Hull music pub saved by Winking Beaver
12-Mar-2008
The former tenants of an award winning music pub have blamed high beer costs and the impact of the smoking ban for driving them out. Terry and Pam...
11-Mar-2008 By Ewan Turney
Britain's pub operators make one last plea for a reduction in alcohol tax
10-Mar-2008 By Ewan Turney
Camra says beer duty must be cut by 1p a pint to halt decline
Pete Robinson: Binge Budgeting
10-Mar-2008
Chancellors before him have traditionally sipped from a glass of whiskey. I'm betting he'll refrain - to drive home the evils of the demon drink he's...
Hamish Champ: I'm All Shook Up
10-Mar-2008 By Hamish Champ
I witnessed at the weekend a quandry I expect many members of bar staff face on a regular basis; at what point do you throw out of your pub someone...
Giving pubs a break
07-Mar-2008
When pubs are bought or refurbished, a tax break, called a 'capital allowance', is available on the part of the cost relating to business apparatus,...
Too early to judge Tory alcohol tax proposals
07-Mar-2008 By Hamish Champ
It is too early to assess the implications of tax proposals on alcohol being put forward by the Conservative party, JD Wetherspoon chief executive...
06-Mar-2008 By Andrew Pring
MA editor Andrew Pring considers the trend to diversify into accommodation
Power rangers
06-Mar-2008
No-one is more surprised about the result of the Efficiency Factor competition than the winner Simon Taylor-Williams, licensee of Ye Olde Albion...
Sign of the times?
06-Mar-2008
According to a new marketing report, badly written chalkboards in pubs can be enough to make sure customers do not visit again.Marketing company...
Coors UK rejigs sales director role
06-Mar-2008
Coors Brewers has split its sales director role following the departure of John Holberry, who is to leave the group later this month to join Magners...
Huw Bement joins former Beam colleagues at Cobra UK
06-Mar-2008
Cobra Beer has announced the appointment of Huw Bement in the newly-created role of On-Trade Channel Controller. Bement is the latest Beam Global...
Snifter salutes Jock Woodhouse
06-Mar-2008
Snifter is saddened to hear of the death of John "Jock" Woodhouse, former commander of the Special Air Service Regiment, former chairman of regional...
MyNewPub
06-Mar-2008
The Pear Tree Hildersham Cambridgeshire Agent: GA-Select John and Gillian Harris have just taken on the Pear Tree, a village pub in an affluent area...
Rates threat to vacant pubs
06-Mar-2008 By Joe Lutrario joe.lutrario@william-reed.co.uk
A pubco property boss has said that the empty-property relief rate changes will not alter how his company looks at empty sites. Punch Taverns...
The Agents
06-Mar-2008
John Clyne Public houses negotiator Christie+Co The effects of the credit crunch have been widely reported and Christie+Co's own statistics showed...
Pompey play Devils' advocate
06-Mar-2008 By Helen Bendell helen.bendell@william-reed.co.uk
Portsmouth suffered with the absence of five key players during the Africa Cup of Nations but their squad has been restored to full strength....
Land with a silver lining
06-Mar-2008
Foreign investment in Argentina has elevated it to fifth place among the world's largest wine producers. Fiona Sims reports How have things changed...
Forced to display pub hours
06-Mar-2008
Some issues in licensing crop up regularly in correspondence, and once again there is a dispute about the display of pub opening hours, which is...
LETTERs
06-Mar-2008
Supermarket smoke screen Re: "Scrap cheap deals - now" (MA, 28 February 2008), Asda and the other supermarkets need to go much further. For...
MyShout
06-Mar-2008
Being a good businessman means dealing with failure as well as success, says Peter Linacre I am sure we all have our own personal soundtracks to our...
THE GUV'NOR
06-Mar-2008
Graham Earl Dennet The licensee of the Rams Head, Grappenhall, in Cheshire, says using alternative energy sources can help your finances As most...
BarTalk
06-Mar-2008
How was trade on Mothers' Day? Nigel Anstead White Horse Bedford It was a very good day for us. We didn't do anything different but we had about 200...
Hosts face red-card clampdown
06-Mar-2008 By Tony Halstead THals22851@aol.com
Government proposes opening restrictions and soccer-style card scheme to cut bingeing The Government has ruled out significant changes to the...
05-Mar-2008 By Ewan Turney
Almost four pubs shut for good every day as smoke ban takes its toll
Debt burden prompts Walkabout deal
04-Mar-2008 By Hamish Champ
Reducing the group's debt burden lay behind Regent Inns' decision to put seven of its Walkabout freehold sites on the market in a sale and leaseback...
