Project update 5: The entertainers
29-Aug-2007
THE TIMES they are a-changing at the White Hart - and the category champions are beginning to play their part. The pub and hotel in Wiveliscombe,...
Project update 7: Could do better?
29-Aug-2007
Two-thirds of the way into the project, Barcena is showing some great results.The bar in Burgess Hill, West Sussex - representing the high street in...
Pete Robinson: State controlled pub grub
29-Aug-2007
Liverpool's restaurants and gastro-pubs are to carry 'traffic light' health labels on their menus. The labelling scheme is being piloted in city...
Project Update 7: All change
29-Aug-2007
The pub had a fabulous relaunch in May, and trade was picking up at the venue, the rural representative in our Sell More, Save More project. But now...
29-Aug-2007 By Mark Stretton
Julian Sargeson, the former Laurel Pub Company chief executive, is to take the helm at Herald Inns & Bars. He will join the 40-strong managed...
Pete Robinson: It's official - pubs give you cancer
28-Aug-2007
The good news is that the heat is off smokers, for now at least. A new campaign is underway to demonise that other favourite social habit, alcohol....
Openings
28-Aug-2007
The Headley The Common, Great Warley, Brentwood, Essex CM13 3HS 01277 216104 theheadley.co.uk Top restaurant chefs - especially those with celebrity...
Good month bad month
28-Aug-2007
Good month for Chef Michel Roux: He was named Beer Drinker of the Year by the All-Party Parliamentary Beer Group for his beer list at Le Gavroche....
What the Sunday papers said
26-Aug-2007
New figures from Cancer Research UK show that cancers linked to our affluent way of life are proliferating. The incidence of skin cancer has...
MyShout
23-Aug-2007
Room for improvement? Colin Wellstead looks at the increasing popularity of letting rooms
Admiral pubs to see £50m investment
23-Aug-2007 By The PMA Team
Admiral Taverns, the tenanted operator of 2,400 pubs headed by Gary Landesberg, is to invest £50m in its estate in the coming three years. The...
'Pub shares faring well'
23-Aug-2007
Complaints about antisocial noise have reached record levels across the country, with parts of suburban England registering average increases of 22...
Pressure mounts for Ferguson
23-Aug-2007 By Richard Ross
Following Germany's visit to the new Wembley this week, the football agenda can now switch back to club matters. This early in the season, the...
Making the grades
23-Aug-2007
Pupils from the Licensed Trade Charity's schools once again find they have plenty to celebrate The results are in - the Licensed Victuallers' School...
The state of independence
23-Aug-2007
For the fifth year, the MA has polled its freetrade readers and finds them braced for a tough year. Tony Halstead kicks off a six-page special The...
Leading by example
23-Aug-2007
As the Responsible Drinks Retailing Awards enter their fourth year, Kelly Smith finds out how scooping one of these coveted titles has benefited some...
LETTERs
23-Aug-2007
Pub is no longer 'our house' We are on our ninth pub, after having a 12-year break until two and a half years ago. Now we lease an inn (as in "Come...
Alcohol - there's a lot to learn
23-Aug-2007
At long last, common sense is breaking out over the issue of binge and underage drinking. The media, having castigated pubs and the mythical...
Licensee's fury after thug is cautioned
23-Aug-2007 By Ewan Turney ewan.turney@william-reed.co.uk
A Bolton licensee is furious a teenage thug got let off with a caution after he was attacked for taking a drink off him for being underage. The...
THE GUV'NOR Dennis Griffiths
23-Aug-2007
The licensee of the Miners' Rest, Barnsley, urges pubcos to stand up for the on trade We now have a smoke-free environment in all our pubs. Two...
InBrief
23-Aug-2007
Harden's lists 150 gastropubs The new Harden's London Restaurants guide features over 150 gastropubs. The guide's co-editor Richard Harden said 2007...
BarTalk
23-Aug-2007
Should the drinking age be raised to 21 for the off-trade? Alan Dreja Royal Oak Southampton Absolutely, the underage drinking problem is not caused...
NewsDigest
23-Aug-2007
Marston's is investing £1m in opening three new Que Pasa venues, taking its total to 20. A venue in Doncaster, South Yorks, opened earlier this...
22-Aug-2007
The Orchid Group launches its new 'Contemporary Drinking' concept this week at two transformed sites
Shisha shutdown?
22-Aug-2007
PUBS THROUGHOUT England joined Ireland, Scotland and Wales in a new smoke-free era at 6am on July 1. With smokers no longer attracted to pubs to the...
Pete Robinson: Now they're after your 'Vertical Drinkers'
20-Aug-2007
Public wrath over the appalling death of Garry Newlove should not even be directed towards the supermarkets and off-licences who supply young teens...
Amanda Green: Week 3 of the flood recovery
20-Aug-2007
The situation of the pub at the moment is that it's completely emptied out, including the bar. It's an absolute shell but it's very tidy, although it...
Hamish Champ: Charlie & The Smoking Museum
20-Aug-2007 By Hamish Champ
Now you know my views on the smoking ban but let's put that to one side for a moment. How many of you smokers out there want a lasting reminder of...
Stock market jitters and the Mexican Wave
20-Aug-2007 By Hamish Champ
Fuelled by fears of a worldwide stock market meltdown, shares continued their rollercoaster ride in the City last week, so much so that at one point...
Clubscan meets with ICO
20-Aug-2007
Clubscan, the ID scanner supplier, has met with the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) to confirm its system is not breaking data protection...
What the Sunday papers said
19-Aug-2007
The stabbing to death of another teenager, this time in Greater Manchester, has reignited the debate about planning and licensing regulations. Many...
Coming your way? The new stealth tax
17-Aug-2007
HM Revenue & Customs has published its proposals for changes to the way in which publicans and others will obtain tax relief for expenditure on...
Radioactive material found at Hey Jo
17-Aug-2007 By Hamish Champ
Hey Jo, the West End bar owned by smoking ban critic Dave West, was contaminated with radioactive polonium210 around the time that former KGB spy...
17-Aug-2007 By Joe Lutrario
Hey Joe Club in Mayfair, which is currently publicly flouting the smoking ban, has been named by Westminster City Council as one of 21 premises that...
17-Aug-2007 By John Harrington
The cost for pubs of appealing against any licence condition, or refusal to vary a licence, will rise from £75 to £400 from 1 October. The original...
17-Aug-2007 By Ewan Turney
Pubs in Gloucestershire that were affected by the loss of running water due to the floods will not be able to claim compensation from Severn Trent...
Licensees urged to check smoking shelter compliance
16-Aug-2007 By Eleanor Goodman
Licensees are being urged to examine smoking shelters before they buy them, to check they are compliant with legislation.Concerns have been raised...
What the papers say - August 16, 2007
16-Aug-2007
Police forces yesterday supported a ban on drinking in public and an increase in the price of alcohol. Nearly 200 MPs now want the government to stop...
Licensee thanks The Publican over Opus
16-Aug-2007 By James Wilmore
A licensee has thanked The Publican for helping her to be released from a contract with under-fire energy company Opus. Rosemary Caldwell, licensee...
Big games to pull in punters
16-Aug-2007 By Richard Ross
It's a great time of year for televised sport. We're in that window of time where the football and cricket seasons overlap, which means there's...
Seaside special
16-Aug-2007
David Hancock meets Phil Lance, general manager of a boutique-style inn on Norfolk's Holkham Estate Why our food business is a success Producing...
Punting for profit
16-Aug-2007
The Rugby World Cup is a golden opportunity for pubs to drive profit after the slow summer, says Ewan Turney On the morning of 22 November 2003, 63...
York's best wet-led pub
16-Aug-2007
For the Kings Arms in York, frequent flooding comes with the territory. Joe Lutrario discovers how the riverside pub copes when the waters rise The...
Sitting bull
16-Aug-2007
If bar stools at your local are comfy, count yourself lucky. Adam Edwards recently found himself in a much worse position The stools at my local, the...
Like being savaged by a dead sheep
16-Aug-2007
The letter from Lacors - the Local Authority Co-ordinators of Regulatory Services - which was published last week, regarding delayed licence issuing,...
LETTERs
16-Aug-2007
Traditional local has had its day Well said Mick Johnson (Letters, 9 August 2007). With all his experience he still finds it a knife-edge job to run...
MyShout
16-Aug-2007
The cut-price alcohol sold by supermarkets is on the current political agenda, observes John Grogan MP What do Prime Minister Gordon Brown and...
THE GUV'NOR Peter Gatling
16-Aug-2007
Locally sourced food benefits the whole community, says the licensee of the Merry Harriers, Clayhidon, Devon Following the advent of the smoking ban,...
BarTalk
16-Aug-2007
Has the weather or smoking ban affected you more this summer? Suzie Dreja Royal Oak Southampton Hampshire Yes and yes! They've both been extremely...
NewsDigest
16-Aug-2007
Former boss of Greene King's managed division, Mark Angela, was given a pay-off of £300,000 after his employment ended at the company in April this...
