THE GUV'NOR
15-Feb-2007
Graham Rowson Don't risk missing the smoking ban roadshows says the licensee of the Plungington Tavern in Preston, Lancashire I make no apologies for...
InBrief
15-Feb-2007
TV cheat caught with wrong card A London licensee has been ordered to do 100 hours of community service work and pay costs of £768.68 after he was...
Cup fever starts feast of footy
15-Feb-2007 By Richard Ross
Coming up over the next seven days, there are two major events to look forward to: round five of the FA Cup; and later, the Uefa Champions League....
Host goes self-sufficient
15-Feb-2007 By John Harrington john.harrington@william-reed.co.u
A North Yorkshire host is on a quest to supply all his pub's own energy needs. David Hawksworth is already saving about 25% on electricity bills -...
Playing the reel of fortune
15-Feb-2007
The new generation of gaming machines is breathing new life into the market How one operator is putting entertainment at the top of its agenda...
Pubs must warm to the idea of the green agenda
15-Feb-2007
Combating climate change should be at the top of everyone's agenda, including local pub owners, says Andrew Jefford Imagine that you're lying on a...
NewsDigest
15-Feb-2007
The Licensed Trade Charity would like to clarify that the report in the Morning Advertiser on 8 February regarding the LTC Trust being wound up after...
Public house to private home
15-Feb-2007
The gloomy predictions for pub closures over the next few years will highlight the fact that it is still difficult to "de-license" a pub. I don't...
LETTERs
15-Feb-2007
LTC is not going anywhere Further to the story reported on 8 February (MA, LTC Trust Wound Up After 26 Years), I want to reassure all readers and...
Pub closure debate needed
15-Feb-2007
There's a craterhole the size of a fallen meteorite bang outside Sevenoaks station where once used to stand the finest kind of community pub you...
Pebble trio buy hotels
15-Feb-2007
Former Mill House Inns bosses Ted Kennedy and Ziya Akguneyliu have acquired three hotels from Punch Taverns in a deal estimated to be worth around...
Regent steers course away from high street
15-Feb-2007
Regent Inns has been at the eye of the high-street storm since the new licensing regime commenced in November 2005. The company has had to gird its...
Opportunity knocks?
14-Feb-2007
How many smokers do you have in your pub? You've probably got a rough idea. How many customers have walked past your pub because they have been put...
Green Goblin unleashed on pub trade
14-Feb-2007
Wychwood Brewery has launched a new six per cent cider targeted at the top-end of the resurgent cider market.Green Goblin, which is the result of a...
Snow brings mixed fortunes for publicans
14-Feb-2007 By Gareth Iacobucci
Pubs around the UK experienced varying trading as a result of the bad weather conditions last week. Heavy snow hit many areas across the country on...
More than 1,300 pubs under threat, says CAMRA
14-Feb-2007
More than 1,300 pubs are under threat from closure, says the Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA). The consumer organisation is calling for communities to...
LETTERs
14-Feb-2007
Strike a healthy price balance I am sending this letter to the Morning Advertiser as your editor, Andrew Pring, is probably best placed to make...
14-Feb-2007
Figures show 56 pubs a month are closed permanently - 80 per cent of which are urban.
Pub pics sought for Ruby couple
13-Feb-2007 By Gareth Iacobucci
Richie and Mary Barrett pulled pints in 12 pubs across Leeds between 1970 and 1990, quenching the thirsts of thousands of drinkers along the way. The...
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...
