18-Feb-2011 By John Harrington
The Government is pushing to let pubs open later during the royal wedding weekend despite significant opposition, it has emerged.
18-Feb-2011 By Lesley Foottit
Two Wiltshire licensees are opening a community farm shop in their pub grounds for local businesses to sell their surplus produce. The Tollgate Inn...
17-Feb-2011 By The PMA Team
The pressure on tenanted pubs from the managed sector and wholesale price increases has taken another ratchet up, says The PMA Team.
17-Feb-2011 By Michelle Perrett
One in five licensees say their turnover was down "substantially" in 2010 — although most believe things will improve this year. An exclusive...
Pub operators fined £66,000 over football web streaming
17-Feb-2011 By James Wilmore
A father and son who operate pubs in the Hull area face a bill of more than £115,000 for allowing streaming of Premier League football over the...
17-Feb-2011 By Ewan Turney
The newly-formed Brighton & Hove Licensees Association is to take on plans for an 11.30pm terminal hour for pubs in residential areas.
17-Feb-2011 By Ewan Turney
Health lobbyists are said to be close to walking away from the Government's Responsibility Deal on alcohol, according to reports.
16-Feb-2011 By Ewan Turney
CAMRA hopes to work with the Government to secure a change in EU rules to allow a lower duty rate on beers below 3.5% abv.
Pete Robinson: The British Pub - A thesis on it's decline and fall
16-Feb-2011
For 450 years British pubs and their smoking customers have enjoyed a mutually beneficial relationship that has survived essentially unchanged...
Karen Black: Why on earth did I take on a pub?
16-Feb-2011
Hi everyone, I'm the newest recruit to The Publican's blogging team. My name is Karen, and I have just taken over the Ashfields Hotel in...
Speciality beers face hit from high-strength tax hike, warns CAMRA
16-Feb-2011 By James Wilmore
Hiking duty on high-strength beers will make a "limited contribution" to Treasury coffers and threaten the production of speciality beers, CAMRA has...
'Million jobs depend on pub trade'
16-Feb-2011 By Matt Eley Matt
Almost a million jobs depend on the beer and pub trade, an industry which adds more than £21 billion to the UK economy, with the fourth highest...
Well-run venues rewarded for putting Safety Thirst
16-Feb-2011 By Matt Eley Matt
An award-winning licensee is urging other pubs to get involved in best practice schemes after picking up a prestigious prize. Laura Walters, manager...
16-Feb-2011 By Michelle Perrett
The Harp in Covent Garden is the first London pub to win the coveted Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA) National Pub of the Year competition.
Zonal reports 40% rise in turnover
16-Feb-2011 By Mark Wingett, M&C Report
Zonal Retail Data Systems, the EPoS till provider to over 300 hospitality companies, has reported a 40% increase in turnover to £19.5m for the year...
16-Feb-2011 By Lesley Foottit
Around £60,000-worth of illicit tobacco and alcohol products have been seized from an unnamed Staffordshire pub. An investigation by HM Revenue and...
15-Feb-2011 By John Harrington
CAMRA says its lobbying for beer tie reform will focus on the Government and MPs after formerly stopping its action against the OFT.
15-Feb-2011 By Roger Protz
Fuller's and Meantime are recreating historic ale recipes to give a glimpse of London's glorious brewing past, says Roger Protz.
Pub Bitch: Separated at birth
15-Feb-2011
The laughing policeman One of the themes at this year's National Pubwatch conference, held in Liverpool, was tackling misconceptions. You know the...
CAMRA's OFT beer tie appeal withdrawn
15-Feb-2011 By James Wilmore
CAMRA has withdrawn its appeal against the Office of Fair Trading's (OFT's) decision not to refer the beer tie to the competition authorities, The...
BBPA renews call to scrap tax escalator, in light of inflation rise
15-Feb-2011 By Hamish Champ
The British Beer & Pub Association (BBPA) has called on the government to scrap plans for what it calls "record-breaking" tax rises on beer....
15-Feb-2011 By John Harrington
A group of Sunderland licensees has raised the idea of forming a "crime-watch group" to shop pubs that screen foreign satellite football. That's...
15-Feb-2011 By John Harrington
The first cases of pubcos being 'named and shamed' for breaching their codes of practice with tenants are to be published on-line in one month's...
15-Feb-2011 By Gurjit Degun
Lancashire brewer Daniel Thwaites has rolled out its pub concept, Beer Hero, focusing on raising the profile of ale, in a second pub. The brewer...
15-Feb-2011 By Lesley Foottit
An Oxfordshire pub will be the first pub to host a live TV broadcast of a national pub quiz on 22 February. The Blackhorse Hotel in Thame will host...
15-Feb-2011 By Lesley Foottit
A trio of men responsible for a spate of pub burglaries have been jailed thanks to the combined efforts of Hertfordshire Pubwatch and police. Lee...
14-Feb-2011 By Stephen Crawley
Stephen Crawley highlights Burns as an inspiration for the on-trade and for keeping pubs at the heart of the proposed Big Society.
Lending to small businesses. Or not.
14-Feb-2011 By Hamish Champ
The decision by UK banks to lend more money to small businesses was the first positive signal to come out of the Square Mile for a while - even if it...
Hamish Champ: London Calling?
14-Feb-2011 By Hamish Champ
According to legend or myth or whatever it was, Dick Whittington was persuaded by the peeling of bells to stick to his guns and return to seek his...
UK's leading banks say lending to pubs is not a problem
14-Feb-2011 By Hamish Champ
The UK's biggest banks have sought to reassure licensees there was no policy of 'not lending to the on-trade'. As the row over bankers' bonuses...
Mild January boosts managed pub chains
14-Feb-2011 By Hamish Champ
A milder January than last year made for better trading across the country's leading managed pub and restaurant chains, according to new research....
14-Feb-2011 By Lesley Foottit
Thirteen semi-finalists have been named in the BII Licensee of the Year competition 2011. Judges are looking for individuals or partnerships who...
14-Feb-2011 By John Harrington
Sunderland Football Club chairman Niall Quinn has attacked the use of foreign satellite systems to show football in pubs. In a strongly-worded...
14-Feb-2011 By Ewan Turney
Leading pub and restaurant chains have experienced a better start to the year than expected and clawed back some ground on December's snow hit...
11-Feb-2011 By John Harrington
Pubs are a big step closer to getting the automatic right to open later during the royal wedding. An order has been laid in Parliament that, if...
11-Feb-2011 By Phil Mellows
Nick Pring's campaign for 'real pubs' is reviving corner houses all over London. He talks to. Phil Mellows about the mission that he and business...
11-Feb-2011 By John Harrington
The pitfalls of banning troublemakers from pubs were laid out by barrister Steven Walsh at the National Pubwatch Conference.
10-Feb-2011 By John Harrington
Magistrates have refused to adjourn a prosecution for foreign satellite football screenings at a Humberside pub pending the European ruling.
Angry licensee bans school-run parents from car park
10-Feb-2011
An irate licensee has banned school-run parents from using her pub's car park and been forced to issue parking permits to her regulars. Tracy...
10-Feb-2011 By Gurjit Degun
Home Office minister James Brokenshire has defended the Government's decision to allow anyone to appeal against a licensing application. In a...
10-Feb-2011 By Ewan Turney
Net sales of Guinness in Great Britain dropped 2% for the six months to 31 December 2010 on last year as more pubs closed and the shift from on-trade...
Banks to lend £76bn to small businesses
09-Feb-2011 By Hamish Champ
The UK's leading banks have committed to lend £76bn to small businesses this year, as part of a package of new credit measures worth £190bn. The...
'Eric Illsley resigns over expenses scandal conviction'
09-Feb-2011 By Matt Eley Matt
Eric Illsley, the first MP to be convicted over the expenses scandal, has resigned. Treasury sources confirmed that Illsley had been granted the...
Licensed trade sees sharp rise in business collapses
09-Feb-2011
The Insolvency Service has reported a near-quarter rise in business collapses in the licensed trade for the last three months of 2010. The figures...
09-Feb-2011 By Ewan Turney
A voucher for a meal deal at a Nottingham pub, which appeared on the website Groupon, has been deemed misleading. A promotion on the voucher website...
Top cop attacks supermarket alcohol prices
08-Feb-2011 By Matt Eley Matt
The UK's leading licensing police officer has today hit out at what he called 'pocket money prices' being charged by supermarkets for alcohol. Chief...
08-Feb-2011 By John Harrington
Licensees are being offered a way to claim money from troublemakers who damage their property or attack their staff, under a scheme being led by...
08-Feb-2011 By Roger Protz
Dorset firm Palmers upbeat over cask ale's prospects, but urges Government to help traditional brewers, says Roger Protz. It was once a question on...
08-Feb-2011 By John Harrington
Don't hamper the effectiveness of local pubwatches by incorporating them into "business partnerships" — that's the message from National Pubwatch...
07-Feb-2011 By Lesley Foottit
The Wine and Spirit Trade Association (WSTA) has appointed new public affairs executive Carlo Gibbs.
