Associated Industries meets the three pubs
16-Mar-2007
After three-months in the set up of the Sell More Save More campaign, it was more than welcoming to meet the finalists at site and to obtain from...
SIA confirms November start-date for Scotland
16-Mar-2007
The Security Industry Authority (SIA) has confirmed that all door workers in Scotland will need a licence from November 1 this yearAnyone working in...
16-Mar-2007
Licensees could face legal action if staff are sexually harassed by the public, following a High Court ruling. A raft of legal claims have been...
15-Mar-2007 By Iain O'Neil
£12,000 hit after Judge says she "hid" behind legal advice
Diageo at the Forester Arms
15-Mar-2007
The back bar had a good selection of sprits on optic and brands are separated from light to dark. Aaron has an on going training programme in place -...
London Town buys 39 pubs
15-Mar-2007 By Hamish Champ
London Town plc has announced it is buying 39 pubs from a property holding company for £16.24m, an average of £416,000 per pub.The group is buying...
Pubs face £10K fine in new underage clampdown
15-Mar-2007 By James Wilmore
Pubs could be forced to close for three months or pay a £10,000 fine following a tough new clampdown on underage sales expected to be brought in...
Licensee hits out at planning regulations
15-Mar-2007 By Gareth Iacobucci
A York licensee has hit out at the decision by his local planning council to reject plans for an outdoor smoking patio for his bar. Russ Brown,...
Charles celebrates community pubs
15-Mar-2007 By James Wilmore
Prince Charles has highlighted the vital role of community pubs - and backed a campaign to save darts in pubs. Speaking at a reception to celebrate...
First Proud winner to be announced
15-Mar-2007
A key individual in the licensed trade will be celebrated at next week's Publican Awards with the first Proud of Pubs Award. Inspired by our...
Shares in pub companies rally after earlier slump
15-Mar-2007 By Hamish Champ
Pub stocks bounced back this morning after heavy falls yesterday.Fresh concerns over the state of the US economy caused a shockwave in the London...
15-Mar-2007 By John Harrington
Tough new fines are due from early April - and licensees can't claim due diligence.
Savouring - and saving - a Chiswick moment
15-Mar-2007
I had an "Ah! Bisto" moment last week. I met an old beer-writing chum and we repaired to the Portland Arms, a Fuller's house in St Albans, Herts,...
'Ambiguous' TEN form slated by host
15-Mar-2007 By John Harrington john.harrington@william-reed.co.u
A south Wales host has attacked the "ambiguous" application form for causing his Temporary Events Notice (TEN) application to be rejected. Keith May...
MyShout
15-Mar-2007
With pubcos continuing to buy freeholds, Colin Wellstead wonders how long the market can keep shrinking There are approximately 18,000 freehouses in...
MyNewPub
15-Mar-2007
Red Lion, Dittisham, Devon Agent: Bettesworths French-born Brigitte and Clive Bellenger have taken over the Red Lion Inn in Dittisham, Devon. The...
Firing the imagination
15-Mar-2007
Susan Nowak looks at ideas for maximising the beer-with-food opportunity for St George's Day Slay 'em on St George's Day with an inspired mix 'n'...
InBrief
15-Mar-2007
MPC offers pubs free spring clean Marston's Pub Company (MPC) pubs are to get a spring clean to coincide with the start of the smoking ban. More than...
THE GUV'NOR
15-Mar-2007
Paul Clerehugh St Patrick's Day should lead to stuffed tills, says the licensee of the Crooked Billet in Stoke Rowe, Oxfordshire In Dublin's fair...
A class of their own
15-Mar-2007
From honey flavouring to a famous Cornish drinker, independent brewers are bringing innovation to beer. Adrian Tierney-Jones reveals the winners of...
Top 10 ways to go green
15-Mar-2007
Hospitable Climes shares its advice on the best ways to be energy-efficient with Rosie Davenport 1 Cut kitchen consumption Whenever possible - and...
BarTalk
15-Mar-2007
Should Prince Charles voice his political views? Maggie Pattinson The Crofters Barrow-in-Furness Cumbria He is not the monarch yet - so yes, he...
Is this the future?
15-Mar-2007
JD Wetherspoon is building a new eco-friendly pub that could be the blueprint for all its outlets. Nigel Huddleston visits to get a sneak preview...
LETTERs
15-Mar-2007
Setting the record straight I didn't realise that your publication was going down the Daily Mail route of scare mongering and misinforming its...
Third London Firefly is City bar and club
15-Mar-2007 By Mark Wingett Mark.Wingett@william-reed.co.uk
CBD Bars has opened its third and largest Firefly bar in the City of London. The company, set up by commercial property lawyer Craig Themis, former...
M&C hails star turn by Peach
15-Mar-2007 By MA Reporter
Peach Pub Company, the multiple lessee led by entrepreneurs Lee Cash and Hamish Stoddart, has won the prestigious Rising Star Award in M&C...
14-Mar-2007
Orchid Pub Group launches campaign to 'Bring Back Jugs' in pubs and says customers are loving it.
All things to all people
14-Mar-2007 By Gareth Iacobucci
Having transformed from a cinema to a bingo hall to a pub, the Cutting Room in Melton Mowbray has undergone more facelifts than even the most...
Walkabout chiefs in job swap with barstaff
14-Mar-2007
Fifty members of staff from the Walkabout sports bar in Renfield Street, Glasgow were treated to a night on the tiles last night as board members...
13-Mar-2007
The stereotypical pub regular will undergo a transformation after the smoking ban, according to research.
Publican Live: take the taste test
13-Mar-2007
Visitors to Drinks Brands Live will have the opportunity to take part in the trade's largest ever blind tasting and comparing drinks brands in four...
Publican Live: smoking solutions
13-Mar-2007
There is little doubt as to the main issue on the minds of licensees across the UK in the spring of 2007: the smoking ban.While it is a challenge for...
A pig of a task?
13-Mar-2007
AT THE risk of sounding cynical, years of journalistic experience teach you never to look a gift horse - or pig - in the mouth. So when Pub Food's...
Pub chief fights back over darts
13-Mar-2007 By James Wilmore
A pub group chief is fighting back over claims that the popularity of darts in pubs has been hit by gastropubs. The Save Our Darts campaign was...
Pubs - going, going, gone
13-Mar-2007
Gordon Brown seems to agree with Joseph Stalin. One death is a tragedy, one million a statistic, said the Russian dictator as he explained why he...
Alan Bowes declared bankrupt
12-Mar-2007 By Hamish Champ
Alan Bowes, the former head of collapsed pub business London & Edinburgh Swallow Group, has been declared bankrupt.Records on the Individual...
What the Sunday papers said
11-Mar-2007
The number of teenagers receiving medical treatment after drinking binges has risen nearly 15 per cent in the year the new 24-hour licensing laws...
09-Mar-2007 By John Harrington
Trade leaders write to Tony Blair to save the Crown symbol on pint glasses
08-Mar-2007 By John Harrington
Punch chooses not to inflict 140% rent hike on a licensee who appeared on Gordon Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares
'The industry needs a price adjustment''
08-Mar-2007
OVER THE past few years the pub industry has lost some great, traditional, family-owned regional brewers. Hardys & Hansons, Burtonwood, Jennings,...
In the hands of the pub companies...or the gods?
08-Mar-2007 By Hamish Champ
As I was boarding the Buzz Lightyear Laser Blast ride in Disneyland Paris with my seven-year-old son last week (for the umpteenth time), my colleague...
The other side of the story
08-Mar-2007
Theme magazine found what it believes is the Rolls-Royce of smoking areas on a fact-finding trip to Ireland - where smoking has been banned since...
The Publican Live..add to taste...
08-Mar-2007
With food becoming more important than ever to pubs, visitors to Publican Live will find a wide range of menu and equipment ideas from exhibitors....
Pubs targeted by money laundering criminals
08-Mar-2007
More than £370m in cash is being laundered through the pub trade every year, says a leading investigator of organised crime. Roger Wilson from the...
Chorley Pubwatch gets tought on violent offenders
08-Mar-2007
PUBLICANS IN Chorley, Lancashire, are getting tough on violent offenders by banning them from their premises for five years.The decision follows...
Pubs continue to complain over Opus
08-Mar-2007
Energywatch says almost half of the complaints it has received about Opus Energy this year have come from publicans.The energy watchdog says it has...
MyShout
08-Mar-2007
It's time to see the good in the smoking ban and get drinkers to rediscover their local, says Barry Gillham With Community Pubs Week just past, am I...
THE GUV'NOR
08-Mar-2007
Ali Carter Selling your pub can be very stressful, says the licensee of the Bay View Inn, Widemouth Bay, Cornwall Someone at a BII seminar asked me...
Rising star
08-Mar-2007
Ale brands are behaving more like lagers and upping the ante on the the marketing front. Nigel Huddleston reports Just when it seemed that ale...
International flavour
08-Mar-2007
Take customers on a magical mystery tour through a world of new beers, says Punch Taverns marketing director Geoff Brown For a long time now, it has...
