Imitating art
01-Dec-2006
Susan Nowak steps back in time to sample a taste of 16th-century Flemish living. A huge pair of bloomers and other bits of laundry flap from a...
Haven in the hills
01-Dec-2006
Wellington Arms, Baughurst Road, Baughurst, Hampshire Tel: 0118 982 0110 The "Welly", formerly a hunting lodge for the Duke of Wellington, is...
30-Nov-2006 By The Morning Advertiser
A Punch licensee who appeared on Gordon Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares last week has hit out at his pubco after a huge rent rise five hours before the show was screened.
Fuller's looking for further acquisitions
30-Nov-2006 By The PMA Team
London brewer Fuller's would be happy to spend as much as £200m on another major acquisition after the successful integration of the Gale's estate....
Smartbox collapse leaves licensees locked in
30-Nov-2006
Hundreds of licensees have been left tied to hire purchase deals on equipment they cannot use following the collapse of controversial interactive TV...
Waste plant battle for pub
30-Nov-2006
REGULARS AT a pub in North Yorkshire are leading the fight to block plans to build a waste composting and shredding site next door.More than 100...
Beadle foils Bond's undercover exposé
30-Nov-2006
As marketing stunts go, JDW's "Mission to Mock" seemed to rank among the best: First, take an area manager from Cardiff with the name Bond - that's...
THE AGENTS
30-Nov-2006
Timothy Meek Agency Director James A Baker At any one time, the number of freehold pub sites on the market with development potential has never been...
Crunch time for Europe's best
30-Nov-2006 By Richard Ross
The final matches of the Champions League group stage are coming up and there are spots in the next round to fight for, with Premiership clubs in...
Giving dry a try
30-Nov-2006
Setting up a food offer needn't cost the earth or tax your culinary abilities. Andrew Burnyeat shows you how to avoid those sleepless nights as you...
Tread warily over pub poker
30-Nov-2006
Pub gaming has always been fraught with difficulty, because of the severe limitations and restrictions placed upon it. There has been a long-held...
LETTERs
30-Nov-2006
LESG has finished u s We took on a pub three years ago called the Queen's Head in Horton, Telford, Shropshire. When we bought it we were under the...
'DON'T QUOTE ME ON THAT'
30-Nov-2006
Each month a senior buyer from our panel talks anonymously and candidly about the latest brand developments It was when my contact at InBev started...
MyShout
30-Nov-2006
Invading hordes are adopting a new guise in modern-day York, says Stephen Oliver Every time I travel to York I pack my waders and inflatable canoe,...
Wrong music tariffs cost licensees dear
30-Nov-2006 By John Harrington john.harrington@william-reed.co.u
Many pubs and clubs are paying far too much for licences to play recorded music because they have been put on the wrong tariff. That is the claim of...
The GUV'NOR Graham Rowson
30-Nov-2006
Proper planning prevents poor performance says the licensee of the Plungington Tavern in Preston, Lancashire Imagine looking around one of your bar...
Act is changing pub habits says survey
30-Nov-2006 By John Harrington john.harrington@william-reed.co.u
Drinking habits are evolving due to licensing reform, with people more likely to stay longer in community pubs. This is according to a survey of...
BarTalk
30-Nov-2006
In an ideal world, what would you like for Christmas? Dave Daly Cahoots Blackpool The smoking ban to be partially lifted - we want to have the right...
Pubcos face severe underage penalties
30-Nov-2006 By Ewan Turney ewan.turney@william-reed.co.uk
Pubcos could face fines of £10,000 if one of their pubs persistently serve underage drinkers under new laws. With much of the focus from the Violent...
DESPAIR OF Smartbox COLLAPSE
30-Nov-2006 By Ewan Turney ewan.turney@william-reed.co.uk
Company's failure leaves licensees with massive debts and onerous leases Controversial screen media company Smartbox has collapsed leaving hundreds...
Changes are on the cards
29-Nov-2006
Pub poker has grown in 2006 like the smile on a novice player's face who knows he holds a good hand. But anyone familiar with the game will know...
29-Nov-2006
Pubs in Glasgow look set to face a midnight glass ban if they plan any extended hours this Christmas. Licensing officials have told pub operators...
24-Nov-2006
British Beer and Pub Association survey goes against doom-mongers' 24-hour drinking predictions.
Plummeting profits for two major brewers
24-Nov-2006 By The PMA Team
Two major UK brewers indicate current difficulties facing beer business
Smoking out a bargain?
24-Nov-2006 By Hamish Champ
Ted Tuppen's comments that the sale of Enterprise Inns' entire 137-strong Scottish estate was strategically driven should be taken at face value,...
Fuller's sizing up rival family brewers
24-Nov-2006
Fuller & Co aims to fuel expansion by courting rival family brewers with shareholders looking to cash in their assets.Speaking as the...
24-Nov-2006
Fuller's has reported 'excellent' results for the six months up to the end of September. The London brewer and pub operator announced its results for...
23-Nov-2006 By John Harrington
The British Beer & Pub Association (BBPA) is to ask Government to let pubs host small-stakes poker games.
Do It Right Kiely venture goes under
23-Nov-2006 By The PMA Team
Another company owned by Paul Kiely, the founder of discredited pub company Provence, has gone into administration, the Morning Advertiser has...
We must act and act now
23-Nov-2006
Beer producers, pub owners, pub operators; it no longer matters on which side of this £28bn industry you sit, we are all under attack. The issue at...
Call to arms
23-Nov-2006
Former Home Secretary David Blunkett, a current Home Office minister and the Deputy Chief Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police were among the...
Exclusive research: drinkers are not spending more money in pubs
23-Nov-2006
EXCLUSIVE RESEARCH for The Publican has blown a hole in the argument that later opening would result in people drinking more in pubs into the early...
A mixed bag
23-Nov-2006
Reform may have caused its fair share of problems in the industry but it has not led to the end of the world as we know it, according to trade...
NewsDigest
23-Nov-2006
A new report calls for raising the age for buying cigarettes in Scotland from 16 to 18. It also calls for the licensing of cigarette sales north of...
Pubwatch ban contested by Liberty
23-Nov-2006
Pressure group Liberty has defended its decision to back the case of a man who is trying to fight his pubwatch ban by claiming it breached his human...
Let pubs host poker
23-Nov-2006 By John Harrington john.harrington@william-reed.co.u
The British Beer & Pub Association is to seek a small-stakes exemption for pubs The British Beer & Pub Asso-ciation (BBPA) is to ask...
THE AGENTS
23-Nov-2006
Barry Aldred Associate Director, Davey & Co The pub sales market has continued to experience a sustained boom throughout 2006 and the...
Profit from a 250k face-lift
23-Nov-2006 By Lucy Britner lucy.britner@william-reed.co.uk
Union Pub Company (UPC), Wolves' tenanted arm, is looking for the right licensee for a Rotherham, South Yorkshire, pub undergoing a £250,000 revamp....
Right on Kew
23-Nov-2006
The Inn at Kew Gardens has had such a turnaround of fortunes - not least due to a £1m makeover - that it reached the finals in a gastro competition....
Raising their game
23-Nov-2006
As new legislation introduces higher stakes and prizes on gaming machines, Jo Grobel meets some key players The recent, long-awaited increase in...
Has the paper pile paid off?
23-Nov-2006 By Lucy Britner reports on MA research into how counc
The last 12 months haven't been easy for the councils at the front line of licensing but there is a sense that the hard work has paid off. In an...
LETTERs
23-Nov-2006
Targeting of trade is unfair I write in response to the MA's front page article of 16 November, Revenue slammed over swoop tactics. Now let's apply...
MyShout
23-Nov-2006
Why, oh why, do we men still have to wear black ties? asks Tony Jennings A few weeks ago I found myself watching the annual awards ceremony of...
23-Nov-2006 By Ewan Turney
One disgruntled Smartbox customer has decided to take the company to the small claims court to recoup the £1,800 he says he is owed. Bill Ganley, of...
The GUV'NOR Dennis Griffiths
23-Nov-2006
The licensee of the Miners Rest in Barnsley looks back on the FLVA conference The 2006 FLVA (Federation of Licensed Victuallers Associations)...
BarTalk
23-Nov-2006
Would you host poker at your pub if you could? John Ullman Red Lion Coleshill Buckinghamshire Yes we would. We are a sports pub, with darts teams,...
What the Sunday papers said
20-Nov-2006
City banks planning a rival to the London Stock Exchange have earmarked up to £10m to build a trading system and have even identified potential...
Government reassures licensees over duty stamps
20-Nov-2006
The government has moved to quash fears that licensees may be inadvertently breaking the law when the new duty stamps scheme comes into force next...
17-Nov-2006 By The PMA Team
Another company owned by Paul Kiely, founder of Provence, has gone into administration, the MA has learnt.
Held to account
17-Nov-2006 By Hamish Champ
With the dust still settling on the collapsed London & Edinburgh Swallow Group (L&ES), I rang the Institute of Chartered Accountants of...
