04-May-2010 By Phil Mellows
Phil Mellows considers a new German experiment for drinking rooms to help people with drinking problems.
04-May-2010 By Ewan Turney
Stanford Orchards Cider has been crowned best cider in Britain by the Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA). Winner of the Perry Gold medal was Hartlands...
Hamish Champ: Lord Bell didn't strike the right note
03-May-2010 By Hamish Champ
I was looking forward to hearing what advice Tim Bell had to offer the pub trade when he addressed last week's ALMR 'Business Day' conference. While...
30-Apr-2010 By The PMA Team
A Norfolk pub entrepreneur has bought her fourth pub — Sarah-Jane Roberts has acquired the Rose Valley Tavern in Norwich.
30-Apr-2010 By The PMA Team
The old Gales brewery site in Horndean — now owned by Fuller's — is set to be the subject of a £20m redevelopment scheme that will create 100...
Mark Daniels: EU don't care about us
30-Apr-2010
Last week, the EU ruled that the Beer Tie is perfectly legal. Cue a load of harumphing from people who disagree with them, but should we really be...
Julian Grocock: Did I watch the debates? No, I was in the pub
30-Apr-2010
Some wag remarked that, with the sudden leap to prominence of a man called Clegg in this General Election, we don't have to look further than Messrs...
Plus ca change, as some French bloke once said
30-Apr-2010 By Hamish Champ
I'll admit I was rather scornful of the much-hyped televised leaders' debates when they were first mooted some months ago. What little I saw over...
'Pre-loaders' spend more in the pub, survey finds
30-Apr-2010 By Hamish Champ
Cheap supermarket booze is driving more people to drink at home before a night out in the pub, according to a new survey. Findings of a poll by...
30-Apr-2010 By Lesley Foottit
A Lancashire licensee has called for tougher deterrents for pub troublemakers, after the man who "nearly killed" him escaped prison. Barrie Wearing,...
30-Apr-2010 By Ewan Turney
Celeb chef Heston Blumenthal has bought a second pub in Bray — opposite his Fat Duck restaurant. Blumenthal, who already also owns the Hind's Head...
30-Apr-2010 By Martyn Leek, M&C Report
Whitbread has put the rollout of its Taybarns brand on hold and will assess further expansion later this year, M&C Report can reveal. The...
30-Apr-2010 By Mark Stretton, M&C Report
The nightclub sector is struggling even more than the pub sector. Mark Stretton take a look at what's going on. Analysts tend to make company profit...
30-Apr-2010 By Ewan Turney
Over 78% of 18-34 year-olds regularly drink at home before going out — a trend that is causing serious damage to the pub trade. New research from...
29-Apr-2010 By The PMA Team
All the latest gossip and rumour from the City.
29-Apr-2010 By Ewan Turney
The British Beer and Pub Association will meet with the Independent Pub Confederation for the first time.
Pub Bitch: The Publican Awards 2010 special
29-Apr-2010
A sale too far? I see Enterprise Inns is putting 10 more of its London pubs up for sale (and leaseback) in another auction to be held later this...
Election 2010: The Publican's guide to the political parties' pub policy
29-Apr-2010 By James Wilmore
Alcohol duty Labour's regime on alcohol duty has been a massive issue for the trade. In the past two years beer duty alone has been hiked by a...
Pubs gear up to be polling stations
29-Apr-2010 By James Wilmore
Pubs across the UK will be playing a major role during the voting process next week - with a host of outlets being used as polling stations for the...
BBPA and IPC to meet over pubco issues
29-Apr-2010 By James Wilmore
The two main trade bodies who have been at loggerheads over the future of the tied model for months are to meet to discuss the issues facing the...
29-Apr-2010 By Gemma McKenna
A row has erupted over plans to get Glasgow pubs to use only toughened glasses within six months. An initiative, launched in the city today with...
28-Apr-2010 By Jay Smith
The best way to wake up the pubcos is to stop signing leases, says TV star and licensee Jay Smith.
Hundreds already helped by Tap into WaterAid
28-Apr-2010 By Matt Eley Matt
The pub industry has been praised for helping transform hundreds of lives by getting on board with a Publican backed initiative. More than 100 pubs...
28-Apr-2010 By John Harrington
A new buying co-op has been formed by major wholesalers Palmer & Harvey and Makro. Independent customers will get access to the same scale...
27-Apr-2010 By Ewan Turney
Pubs in Edinburgh have failed in a bid to open before 1230pm on a Sunday — the SBPA has slammed the decision.
Charles Dickens' favourite wins award
27-Apr-2010
A pub that used to be a favourite haunt of Charles Dickens has written its own success story by being named Shepherd Neame pub of the year. The...
Industry puts in marathon effort
27-Apr-2010
A woman in an Old Hooky outfit has broken the world record for the fastest marathon time for a female dressed as a bottle. Hook Norton resident Gill...
27-Apr-2010 By Peter Coulson
It was interesting, but not new, to hear of the national ban on a woman drinker under the new Drinking Banning Orders legislation, says Peter Coulson.
26-Apr-2010 By Peter Coulson
Few people even in the trade understand the double-edged sword of the new legislation on test purchasing, says Peter Coulson.
Mark Daniels: Saturday morning phone calls...
26-Apr-2010
Picture the scene, if you will. It's Saturday morning, 9:00 a.m., and it was a late finish the night before. The children are away and there's no...
'Tesco planning four 'mini-villages' complete with supermarkets'
26-Apr-2010 By James Wilmore
Tesco already provides everything you need to stock a home, from groceries to garden furniture. Now it is going to build the house as well. The...
Shep's Operation Landlord offers pubs a chance to win £30k
26-Apr-2010 By Matt Eley Matt
Spitfire stockists will all be in with a chance of winning the top prize - rent for a year up to £30,000. And freeholders who enter can spend the...
26-Apr-2010 By Sonya Hook
One lucky pub will have its rent paid for a year courtesy of Shepherd Neame's Spitfire Ale via Operation Landlord.
26-Apr-2010 By Ewan Turney
Rene Klein and Alison Saul of the Great Western in Aynho, Oxfordshire have been named Hook Norton's Best New Licensees. The pair were crowned at the...
26-Apr-2010 By Ewan Turney
The Royal Albion in Broadstairs, Kent has been crowned Shepherd Neame Pub of the Year, following a £1m refurbishment. The hotel — a former...
23-Apr-2010 By Mark Stretton, M&C Report
A leading City analyst has claimed a wave of new senior management in the pub sector could lead to a resurgence of M&A in the industry.
The Publican Awards 2010: Winners brochure, photos and reaction
23-Apr-2010 By Matt Eley Matt
Winners in the 19 categories included Ashley and Kelly McCarthy, licensees at Ye Old Sun Inn in Colton, North Yorkshire, who were named Publicans of...
'Not all pub operators are toasting the sector's revival'
23-Apr-2010
A poster plastered outside the JD Wetherspoon in Denmark Hill, South London, gives a good idea of why fortunes are diverging in the UK pub sector.The...
23-Apr-2010 By Lesley Foottit
Magistrates have banned a man from bars in Manchester's Gay Village for three years after he threatened a female door supervisor. Under the ASBO...
22-Apr-2010 By The PMA Team
The PMA Team takes a looks at JD Wetherspoon's past and future as founder Tim Martin starts to ramp up openings again. As milestones go, it's...
22-Apr-2010 By The PMA Team
All the latest gossip and rumour from the City.
Robert Sayles: Everards - A pubco with a difference?
22-Apr-2010 By Robert Sayles Robert
Nothing it seems, stirs the emotions or provokes quite the same level of hostility that this seemingly innocuous little word does; reactions such as...
22-Apr-2010 By John Harrington
Top Tory Chris Grayling was grilled on his party's policies towards pubs at a mass meeting attended by 37 licensees at a mid-Wales pub yesterday....
22-Apr-2010 By John Harrington
Essex police have issued guidance for pubs on seizing ID that's used fraudulently to try to buy alcohol underage. It comes amid growing confusion...
'Woman banned from every pub in the country back in court for drunken behaviour'
21-Apr-2010
The first person banned from buying or drinking alcohol anywhere in England was branded 'all that is despicable and rotten in society' by a judge as...
Licensee takes fight to knife crime
21-Apr-2010
A former boxing champion turned licensee is encouraging youths to step into the ring to turn them away from knife crime. Former Irish super...
21-Apr-2010 By Ewan Turney
A Swindon licensee managed to secure a meeting with Prime Minister Gordon Brown yesterday, after confronting climate change secretary Ed Miliband....
21-Apr-2010 By Ewan Turney
A West Midlands woman, who became the first to get a nation-wide pub ban has appeared back in court on a drink-related charge. Laura Hall, 20 was...
Chris Maclean: The tale of two pub handovers
20-Apr-2010 By Chris Maclean
Story One Clive put the change from his fiver back into his pocket and carried the three pints back to the table. He felt contented. Things had gone...
Licensee to contest Neil Kinnock's former seat
20-Apr-2010 By James Wilmore
A frustrated licensee has put himself up as an independent parliamentary candidate in Wales after losing patience with Labour's treatment of pubs....
