Undercover cops in pubs
06-Sep-2007 By Tony Halstead THals22851@aol.com
Police are to plant under- cover officers in pubs to catch bar staff who serve drunken customers. Licensees in Blackpool have been warned that staff...
MyShout
06-Sep-2007
As underage drinking is blamed for social ills, the pub needs to assert itself, says Ken Lupton I was horrified by the recent murder of Garry Newlove...
THE AGENTS
06-Sep-2007
Adam Wyn Griffiths Director, Humberstones It's the beginning of September again, the summer seems to have passed us by this year, and children are...
THE GUV'NOR
06-Sep-2007 By Paul Clerehugh
Watch out for rogue recruitment companies when it comes to hiring a chef, says the licensee of the Crooked Billet in Stoke-on-Rowe, Oxfordshire Page...
InBrief
06-Sep-2007
Licensees risk smoke-ban charge Licensees of a Norfolk pub could be the next to face prosecution for allegedly flouting the smoking ban. Nigel...
Raising the Russian standard
06-Sep-2007
The arrival of new brand Russian Standard looks likely to shake up the battle for supremacy in the vodka market. Nigel Huddleston reports The...
BarTalk
06-Sep-2007
Is there a need for another licensees' trade body? Graham Rowson Plungington Tavern, Preston, Lancashire I cannot believe there is scope for another...
Know your rights - and other people's
06-Sep-2007
It seems that this summer, in particular, the question of discrimination appears to be making the headlines, yet again. The worrying trend for the...
Police unfair on licensees
06-Sep-2007
The issue of underage drinking won't go away. In spite of some suggestions from informed sources that the Home Office was taking the pressure off,...
LETTERs
06-Sep-2007
A great deal from Energywatch Something truly wonderful and amazing has happened that I'd like to share with the MA and its readers. Having obtained...
Time to take pub PR seriously
06-Sep-2007
Good to see the script writers on The Archers know there's more to bar-tending than serving your mates a sloppy pint. In last Sunday's episode -...
Licensee in battle with Provence boss
06-Sep-2007 By John Harrington john.harrington@william-reed.co.u
Smoke-ban rebel host Nick Hogan is battling the former boss of collapsed pub company Provence, who owns the freehold of Hogan's pubs, to stay in...
NewsDigest
06-Sep-2007
Edinburgh's licensing board has passed a policy which will mean bars must provide seats for at last half of their customers. It will also see pub...
£10m investment for 240 LESG pubs
06-Sep-2007 By Tony Halstead THals22851@aol.com
Oxford Inns & Hotels (OIH) is making a £10m investment in the former London & Edinburgh Swallow Group (LESG) pubs it took over following the...
Pressure mounts to punish violent thugs
06-Sep-2007 By John Harrington john.harrington@william-reed.co.u
Trade uniting behind calls to protect licensees from attack Pressure is mounting on the Government and police forces to ensure thugs who attack...
Scotland faces paid-for-policing
05-Sep-2007
Scottish pub and club licensees have joined with trade groups to condemn a plan by Justice Secretary Kenny MacAskill to impose a controversial...
Pete Robinson: Workers banned from using pubs
05-Sep-2007
Health and safety zealots at the Welsh Assembly are banning thousands of civil servants from lunchtime pub visits, even for a swift half or a glass...
04-Sep-2007
Brulines has announced it is to buy rival cellar volume monitoring company Nucleus Data for £3,800,000. A further consideration of up to £700,000...
Orchid - first pubco to become a Red Tractor Licensee
03-Sep-2007
The Orchid Group has become the first pub company to become a Red Tractor Licensee.
Wet weather hits Café Rouge
03-Sep-2007 By Hamish Champ
The recent wet weather has impacted on Tragus' Café Rouge restaurant chain more than the rest of its portfolio, the group revealed...
What the Sunday papers said
02-Sep-2007
JD Wetherspoon will this week reveal it has ridden out the smoking ban with plans to open more pubs on the back of rising food sales. The company is...
Take three
01-Sep-2007
Richard Fox looks at more simple menu ideas The humble mushroom - stalwart of the English countryside - is without doubt, edible nature's answer to...
Med time
01-Sep-2007
Bar snacks and the increasing trend for grazing food is where Mediterranean food can come into its own. PubChef reports The trend for sharing food...
Gentlemen's evenings
01-Sep-2007
Where: The Snooty Fox, Lowick, Northamptonshire, www.snootyinns.com The idea: With a programme of regular entertainment, the Snooty Fox is keen to...
Good month bad month
01-Sep-2007
Good month for Med bar concept Que Pasa: Marston's is investing £1m in three new sites. Saucy chefs: Innovate Foods is giving away a trip to...
Diary dates... September
01-Sep-2007
Soil Association Organic Food Fortnight 1-16 September Retailers, pubs and restaurants across the UK are encouraging everyone to try an organic...
Moving from Hell to Paradise
01-Sep-2007
A former executive chef for Marco Pierre White is to head up a new London gastropub. Tim Payne, who was executive chef for Marco Pierre White...
31-Aug-2007
Actor and all-round national institution Stephen Fry chose to celebrate his 50th birthday last Friday in style - with a quiet meal in a Norfolk pub.
31-Aug-2007
BBPA writes to the Home Office in support of calls for tougher action against thugs who attack pub staff
Private equity and the pub trade
31-Aug-2007 By Hamish Champ
Why does private equity get into the pub market in the first place? Pub estates are like any other property in terms of investment; being asset...
31-Aug-2007
Electricity supplier Opus Energy has revamped its sales and pricing policies for licensees, following a torrent of complaints about the company to...
30-Aug-2007
Trade angered at SNP's u-turn on paying to police anti-social behaviour
BIDs: a ray of hope?
30-Aug-2007
Some sectors of the trade are trumpeting Business Improvement Districts as the positive solution to reducing disorder. But how do they work? Nigel Huddleston reports
Bar Group turnover up by 10% to £10m
30-Aug-2007 By The PMA Team
Bar Group, the 30-strong Kent-based managed multiple lessee headed by Paul Wigham and Stephen Brook, saw turnover rise by 10% to £10.02m in its most...
Herald departure shocks employees
30-Aug-2007 By The PMA Team
Employees of Herald Inns & Bars were shocked to find out about the departure of their chief executive Kevin Allcock last week after reading about...
Stella sales down in UK as supermarket price cuts bite
30-Aug-2007
InBev, the world's largest brewer, has reported a fall in UK sales of its flagship premium lager Stella Artois.In a fiercely competitive UK beer...
Win a poker cruise in the caribbean
30-Aug-2007
A poker cruise in the Caribbean will be the prize for the pub that puts forward the winner of a new online pub poker tournament launched in...
New trade body 'to rival BII and FLVA'
30-Aug-2007 By Ewan Turney
A new trade body run by licensees for licensees hopes to get off the ground in the next six months. The group, provisionally called the National...
Michael Heseltine, IT manager, Orchid Group
30-Aug-2007
What has been the most important technological advance to your business in the last few years, and why? We are in the unique position of starting...
Low-level gambling is the way forward
30-Aug-2007
This weekend the new gambling laws take over, which will affect both pubs and clubs. Of more immediate impact for the pub landlord than the AWP...
LETTERs
30-Aug-2007
Don't be a whipping boy Re your article: Licensee's fury after thug is cautioned, (MA, 23 August 2007). Why do we let ourselves be this industry's...
Calling time on pub violence
30-Aug-2007
Much has been rightly made in recent weeks of the worrying rise in gun crime. Reports of teenage shootings are bound to catch the national media's...
THE AGENTS
30-Aug-2007
Paul Tallentyre Head of pub agency Davis Coffer Lyons The high-street licensed property market is suffering from stagnation. Lack of innovation in...
The keys to success
30-Aug-2007
The Cross Keys in Corsley, Wiltshire, serves great food and boasts an award-winning garden. Licensee Fraser Carruth talks to Humayun Hussain Why my...
BarTalk
30-Aug-2007
How was trade over the bank holiday weekend? Alan Dreja Royal Oak Southampton Hampshire It was quiet, as we expected. This is a city-centre pub but...
MyShout
30-Aug-2007
As an Afghan beer is found in Barnsley, should we worry more about parallel trading, asks Tony Jennings A recent Snifter piece about how a bottle of...
THE GUV'NOR Alison Carter
30-Aug-2007
The former BII licensee of the year advises paying attention to detail when carrying out a refurbishment project Refurbishing your pub? We all know a...
NewsDigest
30-Aug-2007
Five hosts are being taken to the High Court by the Premier League (PL) for allegedly screening foreign satellite football. In a writ, the five are...
Hosts set up poker league
30-Aug-2007 By John Harrington john.harrington@william-reed.co.u
A group of West Midlands licensees has set up a not-for-profit poker league to coincide with introduction of new laws allowing small-stake poker at...
29-Aug-2007 By The PMA Team
A report released today reveals that entrepreneurship, innovation and business acumen are the most important skills needed by licensees to run a...
