BBPA set to oppose proposed glass ban
25-Jan-2007 By John Harrington john.harrington@william-reed.co.u
The British Beer and Pub Association (BBPA) is fighting back against growing support among MPs for a glass ban at venues that open after 11pm. In...
24-hour pubs: the real story
24-Jan-2007
Midnight, Blandford Forum, Dorset. In Australia the sun is burning down as Matthew Hoggard runs in to bowl a good length delivery, which Ricky...
22-Jan-2007
BBPA warns MPs over blanket use of plastic glasses
22-Jan-2007 By M&C Report
Ultimate Leisure to raise £25m by way of share issue as it looks at acquisitions
Get set for a busy year
22-Jan-2007
Looking at how 2007 might pan out, I see three significant factors affecting the pub sector: more merger and acquisition activity, the possible...
Ultimate Leisure to raise £25m in share issue
22-Jan-2007 By Hamish Champ
Bar operator Ultimate Leisure has announced plans to raise £25m for acquisitions via a conditional share issue.All 14.8m shares to be released will...
Ultimate Leisure buy Huddersfield bar for £3.3m
22-Jan-2007 By Hamish Champ
Ultimate Leisure has acquired the Cotton Factory bar and lounge in Huddersfield for £3.3m. The bar operator bought the freehold property from Daisy...
REITs: A taxing problem for pubcos
21-Jan-2007 By Hamish Champ
Shares in a number of pub operators, notably those expected to make the move to REIT status in the near future, rose sharply at the end of last year....
What the Sunday papers said
21-Jan-2007
Swedish drinks giant Vin & Spirit, which manufactures Absolut vodka, the world's third largest spirit brand, is currently the subject of huge...
19-Jan-2007
A licensee who lost his license has kept his customers by allowing them to bring their own drink.
You get what you pay for...
19-Jan-2007 By Hamish Champ
Bang! What was that? Perhaps the sound of the British Hospitality Association (BHA) shooting itself in the foot over the issue of holiday...
Licensees pull out the stops during floods
18-Jan-2007 By Gareth Iacobucci
Licensees have been pulling out all the stops to keep punters happy as torrential floods caused disruption across the country. Despite flooded...
THE AGENTS
18-Jan-2007
David Morgan Managing Director Cookseys DMP The market is awash with leasehold public houses. There - I've said it! No platitudes about it "being a...
Yorkshire & THE north east
18-Jan-2007
Fox and Hounds www.foxandhoundscarthorpe.co.uk Carthorpe, North Yorkshire For Helen and Vincent Taylor, the central purpose of establishing a website...
East anglia
18-Jan-2007
Rose and Crown www.roseandcrownsnettisham.co.uk Snettisham, Norfolk Jeanette and Anthony Goodrich are proud to boast a website that successfully...
East & West Midlands
18-Jan-2007
Fox Inn www.thefoxatsteventon.co.uk Steventon, Oxfordshire Situated between two major science parks employing over 10,000 people, the Fox Inn at...
Loose stock valuation guide aims to cut rows
18-Jan-2007 By Tony Halstead THals22851@aol.com
Trade groups have welcomed "long overdue" new guidelines for loose stock valuations when pub businesses change hands. The new code of practice...
Wales
18-Jan-2007
Terra Nova Mermaid Quay, Cardiff Nick Jones and Steve Morris believe the best way for Terra Nova to retain its premium bar status is by constantly...
West Country
18-Jan-2007
Five Degrees West Falmouth, Cornwall The secret of success for hostelries in popular tourist towns lies in maintaining trade when the holidaymakers...
North West
18-Jan-2007
Fly in the Loaf Liverpool L1 Fly in the Loaf illustrates Victorian style, with a mix of ecclesiastical and baroque designs. The building was once...
Wales
18-Jan-2007
Salt Mermaid Quay, Cardiff When Welsh brewer/retailer SA Brain bought Salt over four years ago, it was an underperforming Scottish & Newcastle...
North East & Yorkshire
18-Jan-2007
Bourbon Leeds, West Yorkshire Competition does not come much tougher for an independent bar operator than being pitched against corporate giants in...
South East
18-Jan-2007
Riverside Tavern Strood, Kent Peter Foreman has seen good times and bad during almost six years of ownership of the Riverside Tavern. Difficulties...
Wales
18-Jan-2007
Bunch of Grapes Pontypridd, Mid Glamorgan The Bunch of Grapes is located in a hard-to -find part of Pontypridd. Despite this drawback, increasing...
West Country
18-Jan-2007
Goat & Tricycle Bournemouth, Dorset James Blake and Tricia Baldwin have moved cask-beer drinking at the Goat & Tricycle to a new dimension....
Yorkshire & North East
18-Jan-2007
The Bamburgh South Shields, Tyneside A determined real-ale campaign launched by pub manager Graeme Jack two years ago has paid rich dividends for...
North West
18-Jan-2007
Sun Hotel & Bar Lancaster, Lancashire Manager Dominic Kiziuk and his team at the Sun Hotel & Bar firmly believe that variety is the spice of...
East & West Midlands
18-Jan-2007
The Wellington Bennetts Hill, Birmingham B2 Nigel Barker believes Birmingham is no longer a "real ale desert" - thanks to the Wellington. Nigel...
East Anglia
18-Jan-2007
Brewery Tap Peterborough, Cambridgeshire It says a lot about the Brewery Tap that one of its customers regularly travels from London to enjoy an...
South East
18-Jan-2007
Cricketers Arms Eastleigh, Hampshire The biggest challenge for South African-born Jason Schinkel has been keeping lots of different cask beers,...
London
18-Jan-2007
Park Tavern Kingston-upon-Thames, Surrey Park Tavern has been on the cask beer lovers' trail ever since Peter McFarlane, wife Jo and daughter Sue...
Wales
18-Jan-2007
Craig and Millissia Owen Plough Inn, Aberaman, Mid Glamorgan It was while serving in the forces that Craig Owen met Millissia, who worked in the...
West Country
18-Jan-2007
Peter and Angela Gatling Merry Harriers, Clayhidon, Devon Peter and Angela Gatling had specific ideas on the type of freehouse they wanted to run....
North West
18-Jan-2007
Laura Condliffe White Lion, Barthomley, Cheshire Twenty-five year old Laura Condliffe is proof that tender years are no barrier to success. Laura has...
Yorkshire & North East
18-Jan-2007
David and Claire Smith The Princess, Rawdon, West Yorkshire What persuades someone with a lucrative and secure job to throw it away for a life...
East & West Midlands
18-Jan-2007
Melissa Price Tilted Wig, Warwick Pub lessee Melissa Price has come a long way in a short time. About 18 months ago, she was happily carrying out...
London
18-Jan-2007
Rowena Smith Old China Hand, Clerkenwell, London EC1 Turning an Irish boozer into a stylish bar specialising in Asian food might seem ambitious, but...
Blackburn hotline prompts underage sales reporting
18-Jan-2007
A telephone hotline has been launched in Blackburn for residents to report licensees who sell alcohol to children. The local council, police and...
Wales
18-Jan-2007
The George Aberbargoed, Mid Glamorgan In the 18 months since trade newcomers Paul Bugler and Nicola Owen were appointed managers of the George, they...
East & West Midlands
18-Jan-2007
Bar Sport Cannock, Staffordshire Former amateur boxing champion Scott Murray has delivered a knock-out blow to some of the heavyweights in the...
Wales
18-Jan-2007
Plough Inn Aberaman, Mid Glamorgan Last January, the back garden of the Plough Inn was a rubbish dump with absolutely no facilities even if its...
North West
18-Jan-2007
The Crofters at Holbeck Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria The garden at the Crofters is the pride and joy of licensees Geoff and Maggie Pattinson. The...
East Anglia
18-Jan-2007
Bird in Hand Gosmore, Hertfordshire Carol Hendry loves gardening. "It's my hobby. I'll spend about one-and-a-half hours every day gardening or all...
South East
18-Jan-2007
The Swan at the Vineyard Lamberhurst, Kent Vanessa and Sean Arnett aren't exaggerating when they say the beer garden at the Swan is a "massive draw"....
Small pubs still a nuisance
18-Jan-2007
Following on from my piece last week about the review of a licence, I have found out that the licensee in question was using the 'small premises'...
LETTERs
18-Jan-2007
Massive boss Peter Linacre took pubcos to task last week - and evoked a passionate response. Below, we publish a selection of posts received on our...
17-Jan-2007
licensee guilty of running unlicensed poker games after failing to persuade a jury it is a game of skill.
Ultimate Leisure looking to buy rivals
16-Jan-2007 By Hamish Champ
High street bar operator Ultimate Leisure expects to be in the market for rival operators as well as individual sites in 2007.Speaking as the group...
Epub: a new kind of fruit machine
15-Jan-2007
For the launch of a fruit machine it was quite a lavish affair. A couple of hundred top executives gathered at the old Truman Brewery in London's...
When is a fat cat not a fat cat?
15-Jan-2007 By Hamish Champ
So, it's that time of year. I don't mean the time of year when a chap goes blasting hundreds of wildfowl out the sky with his 12 bore, although some...
