12-Feb-2007
British Beer and Pub Association director Martin Rawlings opposes calls to introduce a glass ban in Reading pubs.
Will they or won't they?
12-Feb-2007
Until recently, the discussions, analysis and political debate surrounding real estate investment trusts (REITs) and their impact on the property...
Shouldn't REIT legislation have been watertight to begin with?
12-Feb-2007 By Hamish Champ
Real estate investment trusts - or as you know them well enough by now, REITs - have featured rather heavily in these pages recently. Sorry if you're...
Pub customers increasingly 'flexing the plastic'
12-Feb-2007 By Hamish Champ
Despite concerns over rising personal debts, UK pub customers are increasingly 'flexing the plastic' when visiting their favourite watering holes,...
What the Sunday papers said
11-Feb-2007
Pub operator and brewer Young & Co is the target of rival pub companies, private equity groups and property players, with some observers...
09-Feb-2007 By The PMA Team
Allan Rankin, the former chairman of Ultimate Leisure, has acquired a sizeable stake in Utopian Leisure, the Morning Advertiser has learnt.
08-Feb-2007 By The PMA Team
Former Mill House Inns bosses Ted Kennedy and Ziya Akguneyli have acquired three hotels from Punch for around £10m.
Compulsory questions to stay on BII NCPLH
08-Feb-2007
Compulsory questions are to stay as part of England and Wales' most popular exam for licensees - despite the BII losing its battle over the...
Licensee wins David and Goliath case against energy supplier
08-Feb-2007
A licensee who vowed to go to court to fight his case against energy supplier Opus Energy has thanked The Publican for its help. Paul Blyth, tenant...
Pubs in the dark as Satvision goes bust
08-Feb-2007 By James Wilmore
Confusion is reigning for customers of big screen supplier Satvision, which went into liquidation earlier this week. The Stockport-based company,...
Camra: 14 pubs close every week
08-Feb-2007 By Ewan Turney ewan.turney@william-reed.co.uk
'Incredible rate' is expected to increase following smoke ban introduction on 1 July, says Camra boss Fourteen pubs close for good every week - more...
MA names Cow as its Pub of the Year
08-Feb-2007
Freehouse, the Cow in Parkstone, Dorset, has been named the Morning Advertiser Pub of the Year 2007 - and won £5,000 for owner David Sax in the...
Hosts urged to back Camra pubs week
08-Feb-2007 By Tony Halstead THals22851@aol.com
More licensees are being urged to get involved with the trade's first Community Pubs Week, which kicks off in nine days' time. Hosts throughout the...
Getting the name across
08-Feb-2007
This year the LTC, in tandem with LVAs, is set on raising its profile to make new and existing members aware of all the help it can offer One of the...
A ray of sunshine
08-Feb-2007
Hazel Nicholson of Derby's Rising Sun has doubled trade since introducing food at the previously wet-only pub Nicholson took over the Marston's Pub...
Beyond the basics
08-Feb-2007
Simple food offers can help maximise profits and guarantee repeat business. Andrew Burnyeat explores their potential This month, we're going to take...
LETTERs
08-Feb-2007
Rent hikes thin end of wedge There has been a lot of talk about the proposed hike in annual licence fees, not least in the pages of MA (Fees hike...
Pub heritage in safe hands
08-Feb-2007
Anyone who harbours doubts about the future of the pub trade should have been at the Best Pub Awards ceremony at Old Billingsgate in London last...
Chris Maclean: traditional pubs are being overlooked
07-Feb-2007 By Chris Maclean
This afternoon is the LVA meeting. They are usually good fun and the other licensees get along well. There is a strong sense of collective effort for...
Regent Inns turns away 5,000 kids a week under Challenge 21
06-Feb-2007 By Hamish Champ
Regent Inns is believed to have turned away around 5,000 under-age customers a week in the first half of its current financial year.The managed bar...
Treasury denies changes imminent on REITs
05-Feb-2007 By Hamish Champ
The Treasury has rebuffed reports that significant changes will be made to legislation covering real estate investment trusts (REITs) in the Budget...
05-Feb-2007
A Mariah Carey fan has reportedly been barred from his local pub after continually playing her songs on the juke box. Jeff Donovan played Carey's...
What the Sunday papers said
04-Feb-2007
The Swedish parliament is to debate new legislation to allow the privatisation of state-owned companies including Vin & Sprit, owner of Absolut...
Nexum appoints managing director
02-Feb-2007
Paul Kinsey, chief executive of nightclub operator Nexum Leisure, has announced the appointment of Tony Marshall as the company's managing director
One man's business genius is another's asset stripper, it would seem
02-Feb-2007 By Hamish Champ
Last week's news that Marston's had bought EP - formerly Eldridge Pope - came as these here pages were already winging their way to our printers....
REIT rules "unlikely to change
02-Feb-2007 By Hamish Champ
The government is unlikely to change legislation covering real estate investment trusts (REITs) in the short term in order to help pub companies...
01-Feb-2007
Find a full list of winners from last night's prestigious Morning Advertiser Pub Awards 2007 here
Bay Horse, Great Broughton
01-Feb-2007 By Mark Taylor
Mark Taylor talks to the licensees of the Bay Horse in Great Broughton, Middlesbrough, Teesside
Eldridge Pope sale nets Cannon £40m
01-Feb-2007 By The PMA Team
Serial pub entrepreneur Michael Cannon has netted as much as £40m after selling Eldridge Pope to Marston's for £155.1m. Cannon, who paid £84m for...
Licensee loses in second FAPL case
01-Feb-2007
Licensees could still face legal action over foreign satellite screenings, even if they have been acquitted first time round. Karen Murphy, 42,...
Licensees hit a brick wall on outdoor smoking shelters
01-Feb-2007 By Gareth Iacobucci
It seems the widely predicted obstruction by local authorities is already presenting major issues for licensees attempting to plan outside areas...
Manchester pubs welcome supercasino
01-Feb-2007 By Gareth Iacobucci
Manchester now has the go-ahead to develop the SportCity complex in the east of the city, after being granted the licence ahead of bookies'...
01-Feb-2007
Six lucky MA readers will get help fighting the sticky problem of discarded chewing gum in an exclusive competition. The problem is set to increase...
Slippery slope to a top trip
01-Feb-2007
The ALMR's annual ski trip is fast becoming one of the best industry networking opportunities of the year - for those who survive the slopes . This...
East & West Midlands
01-Feb-2007
The Holyhead Coventry Pub manager Jonathan Attridge regards it as a privilege to run the Holyhead, considered to be one of the best in the Ember Inns...
East Anglia
01-Feb-2007
White Horse Bedford Sue and Nigel Anstead repeatedly use the word "loyal" when describing members of staff at the White Horse. Other plaudits handed...
South East
01-Feb-2007
Riverside Tavern Strood, Kent While many outlets are content to lose a member of staff occasionally, the Riverside Tavern isn't. Under owner Peter...
London
01-Feb-2007
The Magpie Bishopsgate, London EC2 Australian Ross McGilvery has been given the freedom of the City of London for his outstanding contribution to the...
Wales
01-Feb-2007
Salt Mermaid Quay, Cardiff Salt is strategically placed to cater for locals as well as the increasing number of visitors and tourists attracted to...
West Country
01-Feb-2007
Royal Oak South Brent, Devon When Andrew and Carol Doree took over the freehold of the Royal Oak days before Christmas four years ago, the members of...
North West
01-Feb-2007
Thomas Rigby's Liverpool Staff training is the key to the success of Thomas Rigby's, which lies in the heart of Liverpool's central business...
East & West Midlands
01-Feb-2007
Red Hart Kington, Worcestershire The Red Hart in Kington is upping the stakes in a bid to have a record-breaking year raising cash for charity. It's...
South East
01-Feb-2007
Dog and Duck Kingsfold, West Sussex When Danny and Sara Shaw took over the Dog and Duck a year ago, they decided that fundraising would be focused on...
Wales
01-Feb-2007
Bryncoch Inn Neath, Glamorgan Craig and Janet Wigley have two callings - one is running the Mitchells & Butlers-owned Bryncoch Inn and the other...
West Country
01-Feb-2007
Old Spot Dursley, Gloucestershire The Old Spot is a cask ale drinkers' paradise. It always has at least six ales on tap and regularly hosts beer...
West Country
01-Feb-2007
Copley Arms Hessenford, Cornwall Michael and Diane Bradburn say that having other members of their family working at the Copley Arms has helped...
North West
01-Feb-2007
Spring Inn Rochdale, Lancashire There's little that Carol and John Cadwallader don't know about their customers - and that includes the scores of...
East & West Midlands
01-Feb-2007
The Greyhound Hinckley, Leicestershire At the Greyhound, Howard and Sue Williams are winning the generation game by catering successfully for the...
East Anglia
01-Feb-2007
The Kings Head Letheringsett, Norfolk Samuel Johnson famously said: "If a man is tired of London, he is tired of life." David and Pam Watts could...
East & West Midlands
01-Feb-2007
The Holly Bush Inn Salt, Staffordshire First-time visitors to the sleepy village of Salt near Stafford could be excused for thinking that the local...
