06-Jul-2006 By Ewan Turney
Prepare for the smoking ban now and get licence variations and planning applications in as soon as possible - that's the advice from licensing...
06-Jul-2006 By Andrew Pring
If you think your pub's having it tough at the moment, and many are, at least you're not running a nightclub. If you were, you'd probably be...
Off-trade booze bargains cut into pub Cup profits
06-Jul-2006 By Tony Halstead
Licensees and pub companies this week raised a glass to a successful and largely trouble-free World Cup despite England's sad exit from the...
Portsmouth licensees may escape fines over foreign broadcasts
05-Jul-2006 By James Wilmore
Three more Portsmouth licensees look likely to escape prosecution for showing Premiership football via a foreign satellite on the basis they were not...
Po Na Na owner in receivership
05-Jul-2006
The owner of the Po Na Na and Fez Club late-night concepts has gone into receivership, with a new company formed by the management to buy the 18...
04-Jul-2006 By The PMA Team
Utopian Leisure boss Bob Senior is to go head-to-head with his former company, Ultimate Leisure, in Belfast, the Morning Advertiser has learnt....
Thwaites' profits dip on rising costs
04-Jul-2006
Regional brewer Daniel Thwaites has reported a fall in profits for the year to the end of March, with rising costs countering the benefits of...
Noisy pubs face £500 on-the-spot fines
03-Jul-2006 By James Wilmore
Pubs that cause late-night noise will face the threat of a £500 on-the-spot fine under government plans. And the penalty for licensees could rise to...
What the Sunday papers said
03-Jul-2006
Alcohol companies could be banned from sponsoring sport or advertising on television before the 9pm watershed under strict plans being considered by...
30-Jun-2006 By The PMA Team
Heaven & Hell nightclub chain owner Entrepreneurial Leisure has become the first casualty of the new licensing laws after losing trade to pubs...
30-Jun-2006 By The PMA Team
The Po Na Na nightclub operator Barvest has been restructured by way of a controlled receivership, the Morning Advertiser has learnt. The...
Right move
30-Jun-2006 By Hamish Champ
Hemmed in by some of South West London's busiest roads, traffic swirling around its island site in Wandsworth, the future of Young & Co's cramped...
Comment: The consumer environment: on an even keel
30-Jun-2006
With temperatures soaring well into the eighties and the World Cup in full swing, the past few weeks must have seemed like Nirvana to many publicans...
29-Jun-2006 By The PMA Team
Mill House Inns, the managed operator led by Ted Kennedy, is to operate a hotel division after buying the two biggest venues in its history for a...
29-Jun-2006 By The PMA Team
The new licensing regulations are just a little over six months old, but in that time they have had a noticeable effect on behaviour on the town pub...
City Comment: Hamish Champ
29-Jun-2006 By Hamish Champ
It seems that barely a week goes by without yet another bid being launched or a deal being completed for one pub estate or another.According to a...
Village people
29-Jun-2006
Have you set up an internet café in your cellar? Maybe you host regular meetings of the local ferret-keepers club in your function room. You might...
Pub company websites failing disabled
29-Jun-2006
Pub company websites are failing to meet the minimum requirements for the visually impaired. More than three-quarters (86 per cent) of businesses in...
29-Jun-2006 By Roger Protz
Gordon Brown could well be the next Prime Minister so we should listen carefully to what he says. His remarks now are an indication of the policies...
'Boring' checks stifle local pubs
29-Jun-2006
High-profile licensee Paul Clerehugh has voiced his support for the Morning Advertiser's Save Our Local Pubs campaign slamming his local authorities...
29-Jun-2006
The Walkabout pub in Islington, London, will keep its licence providing it only uses plastic glasses and ashtrays. Police called for a review of the...
Star rating slashes pub trade
29-Jun-2006
A Lincolnshire pub landlord is claiming his council's new health and safety star rating guide could bankrupt him. East Lindsey District Council's...
E-Pub: Quick bytes
28-Jun-2006
What are you going to do with your super new plasma screen after the World Cup? You could carry on showing sport, although the interest from your...
28-Jun-2006 By Iain O'Neil
After suffering a high profile defeat in the courts yesterday Media Protection Services has today succesfully prosecuted a Lanchashire licensee for...
Dissolving a wee problem
27-Jun-2006
Men's toilets are notorious for being smelly, unpleasant places. Cleaners hate cleaning them, maintenance engineers hate maintaining them. However...
Candy bar owner speaks out
27-Jun-2006
Soho bar owner Kim Lucas claims the delay in her case against Westminster City Council has cost her £40,000. The Candy Bar had its licensing appeal...
27-Jun-2006 By Iain O'Neil
A Portsmouth licensee walks free from court after judge says she had not acted dishonestly in showing Premiership football via a foreign satellite system.
City Comment: Hamish Champ
26-Jun-2006 By Hamish Champ
"A disaster." The assessment, put to me by the chief executive of a regional family brewer last week, of the agreed takeover of Hardys & Hansons...
What the Sunday papers said
25-Jun-2006
Whitbread shares are off their peak of £12.94, reached in March this year, and the upbeat trading statement revealed at last week's AGM, plus the...
Early Bird
23-Jun-2006
The City loves a branded pub. In recent years, of course, the boys and girls in the Square Mile have had to get used to the idea that tenanted pub...
23-Jun-2006 By Iain O'Neil
A Leicestershire licensee has turfed the floor of his bar after a World Cup bet with his punters. James Banbury of the Old Swan, Kibworth, laid the...
Massive Putney pub for auction at £2.5m
22-Jun-2006 By The PMA Team
A public auction in London next month sees the completion of another innovative property deal by Massive Pub Company, the multiple leasehold group...
22-Jun-2006 By Lucy Britner
A new equal opportunity law to prevent ageism could mean licensees are forced to cough up thousands of pounds in compensation. The Employment...
22-Jun-2006
A City analyst has claimed a slew of family brewers are possible takeover targets in the wake of Greene King's acquisition of east midlands firm...
Match times help kick off pub business boom
22-Jun-2006 By A public auction in London next month sees the com
Favourable timing of England games means pubs are continuing to report bumper sales during the World Cup. And more is to come after victory over...
What I Love About Pubs: Helen Dickerson
21-Jun-2006
I love my pub. It's the one place that despite my best efforts to broaden my horizons I always end up in at some point every weekend. I love getting...
Right place, right time
21-Jun-2006
The London and south-east pub-property market graphically underlines a widening north-south divide in the UK, says Tony Halstead No other region in...
Karen Jones is back
20-Jun-2006 By Hamish Champ
Former Spirit Group chief executive Karen Jones, who was last week awarded a CBE in the Birthday Honours for her services to the hospitality...
19-Jun-2006 By The PMA Team
Honeycombe Leisure, the north-west operator of managed pubs, has hoisted a for-sale sign after a strategic review. The company, which has 115 pubs,...
What the Sunday papers said
19-Jun-2006 By Hamish Champ
The Conservative party has called for the scrapping of the government's proposed identity card scheme and said it would use the money saved to build...
Bridge the divide
16-Jun-2006 By Hamish Champ
Crisps are a natural accompaniment to a good cask ale. The finely balanced flavours of wafer-thin slices of potato dance about the palate before...
Fuller's could be next bid target, says broker
16-Jun-2006 By Hamish Champ
Fuller Smith & Turner could be the next regional brewer to fall under the merger and acquisition spotlight, according to a City broker.Charles...
15-Jun-2006 By The PMA Team
Health Minister Caroline Flint told the Government should aim to introduce a smoke ban on 1 July next year. NEW COMMENT
One in three pubs fail underage sting
15-Jun-2006 By The PMA Team
Nearly one third of pubs and clubs - 31% - served minors in the latest Home Office-backed national test purchase operation, the MA has learnt. NEW COMMENT
Q&A: Shaun Woodward
15-Jun-2006 By James Wilmore
There may never be an ideal time to be appointed licensing minister, but Shaun Woodward does appear to have been fortunate in some respects. Just...
Pub chiefs positive at The Publican's Industry Leaders Forum
15-Jun-2006 By Hamish Champ
Pubs will become much better places for many people to be when smoking is banned - but only if licensees start planning now.That was one of the key...
Villagers help win pub a stay of execution
15-Jun-2006 By James Wilmore
Villagers have won a stay of execution for a pub after its new owners gave the licensee 28 days to leave. Save Investments, part of the Petchey...
Pub trade says "aye" to Cyclops
15-Jun-2006
Leicester brewer Everards' new tasting notes system looks set to be adopted as an industry standard.The Cyclops system displays simple eyes, nose and...
15-Jun-2006 By John Harrington
Pub companies are having to second guess the smoking ban guidance as they look to adapt their pubs for the ban. Charles Wells is to trial different...
15-Jun-2006 By Tony Halstead
A leading trade group has called for a radical review of pub fruit machine jackpots to ward off a trading threat to thousands of pubs. Business In...
