14-Feb-2011 By Lesley Foottit
Thirteen semi-finalists have been named in the BII Licensee of the Year competition 2011. Judges are looking for individuals or partnerships who...
14-Feb-2011 By John Harrington
Sunderland Football Club chairman Niall Quinn has attacked the use of foreign satellite systems to show football in pubs. In a strongly-worded...
14-Feb-2011 By Ewan Turney
Leading pub and restaurant chains have experienced a better start to the year than expected and clawed back some ground on December's snow hit...
11-Feb-2011 By John Harrington
Pubs are a big step closer to getting the automatic right to open later during the royal wedding. An order has been laid in Parliament that, if...
11-Feb-2011 By Phil Mellows
Nick Pring's campaign for 'real pubs' is reviving corner houses all over London. He talks to. Phil Mellows about the mission that he and business...
11-Feb-2011 By John Harrington
The pitfalls of banning troublemakers from pubs were laid out by barrister Steven Walsh at the National Pubwatch Conference.
10-Feb-2011 By John Harrington
Magistrates have refused to adjourn a prosecution for foreign satellite football screenings at a Humberside pub pending the European ruling.
Angry licensee bans school-run parents from car park
10-Feb-2011
An irate licensee has banned school-run parents from using her pub's car park and been forced to issue parking permits to her regulars. Tracy...
10-Feb-2011 By Gurjit Degun
Home Office minister James Brokenshire has defended the Government's decision to allow anyone to appeal against a licensing application. In a...
10-Feb-2011 By Ewan Turney
Net sales of Guinness in Great Britain dropped 2% for the six months to 31 December 2010 on last year as more pubs closed and the shift from on-trade...
Banks to lend £76bn to small businesses
09-Feb-2011 By Hamish Champ
The UK's leading banks have committed to lend £76bn to small businesses this year, as part of a package of new credit measures worth £190bn. The...
'Eric Illsley resigns over expenses scandal conviction'
09-Feb-2011 By Matt Eley Matt
Eric Illsley, the first MP to be convicted over the expenses scandal, has resigned. Treasury sources confirmed that Illsley had been granted the...
Licensed trade sees sharp rise in business collapses
09-Feb-2011
The Insolvency Service has reported a near-quarter rise in business collapses in the licensed trade for the last three months of 2010. The figures...
09-Feb-2011 By Ewan Turney
A voucher for a meal deal at a Nottingham pub, which appeared on the website Groupon, has been deemed misleading. A promotion on the voucher website...
Top cop attacks supermarket alcohol prices
08-Feb-2011 By Matt Eley Matt
The UK's leading licensing police officer has today hit out at what he called 'pocket money prices' being charged by supermarkets for alcohol. Chief...
08-Feb-2011 By John Harrington
Licensees are being offered a way to claim money from troublemakers who damage their property or attack their staff, under a scheme being led by...
08-Feb-2011 By Roger Protz
Dorset firm Palmers upbeat over cask ale's prospects, but urges Government to help traditional brewers, says Roger Protz. It was once a question on...
08-Feb-2011 By John Harrington
Don't hamper the effectiveness of local pubwatches by incorporating them into "business partnerships" — that's the message from National Pubwatch...
07-Feb-2011 By Lesley Foottit
The Wine and Spirit Trade Association (WSTA) has appointed new public affairs executive Carlo Gibbs.
07-Feb-2011 By The PMA Team
No Saints, the company run by ex-Luminar boss Stephen Thomas, aims to open a site in a Berkshire town. The company is reported to have put in a...
Mark Daniels: Could Top Gear's antics trigger the demise of the pub?
07-Feb-2011
You might have noticed a story last week, tucked away in the bylines of a couple of small newspapers, in which Mexico appears to have declared war on...
What does £20m buy you these days? Doom Bar, that's what
07-Feb-2011 By Hamish Champ
I've always been fascinated by the different values people give to things. In these hard economic times £20m would buy you less than half of a...
Hamish Champ: There's only one place to celebrate turning 50...
07-Feb-2011 By Hamish Champ
Holy. Mother. Of God. I knew that if I played my cards right it would happen eventually, but still, it was bit of shock when it finally rolled...
Make it easier to hire and fire staff, says IoD
07-Feb-2011 By Hamish Champ
A leading business group has called on the government to make it easier - and cheaper - for small businesses to hire and fire staff. The tough line,...
Pubs profits set to rise if satellite football case upheld
07-Feb-2011 By Hamish Champ
Pubs and pub companies could see their profits rise by more than three per cent if BSkyB loses its grip on televised football in the on-trade....
04-Feb-2011 By The PMA Team
A plan by No Saints to spend £500,000 on opening a burlesque club in the centre of Cardiff has been turned down.
Caroline Nodder: No industry is so heavily burdened by tax as the pub industry
04-Feb-2011 By Caroline Nodder
Tax is one of those words that immediately gets your back up. It reeks of unfairness, is synonymous with the state penalising the little guy, and is...
04-Feb-2011 By John Harrington
The ALMR has urged the Government to make sure supermarkets aren't granted the automatic right to open later.
03-Feb-2011 By The PMA Team
All the latest rumour and gossip from the City.
03-Feb-2011 By The PMA Team
The British Beer & Pub Association (BBPA) has reported reduced losses despite a £157,000 drop in income.
02-Feb-2011 By Phil Davison
Customers are the lifeblood of our pubs and we need to communicate and stay in touch with them, says Phil Davison.
Paul Chase: All newspapers do is reinforce stereotypes
02-Feb-2011
The gist of the story was that among that minority of 11 to 15-year-olds who binge-drink (as opposed to just drink), girls are catching up with boys...
Nick Baker: Molson Coors is 'the right buyer for Sharp's'
02-Feb-2011 By Hamish Champ
Nick Baker, until today the co-owner of Cornwall's Sharp's Brewery, said the sale of the business to Molson Coors was the right thing to do and the...
Pub on quiet street shocked at 'crime hotspot' tag
02-Feb-2011 By Matt Eley Matt
A community pub in a quiet street was shocked when a new police website claimed the area was one of the most crime-ridden in the country. The...
02-Feb-2011 By Lesley Foottit
Police have asked pubs and bars in Luton town centre to voluntarily close ahead of a protest on Saturday. The English Defence League and a counter...
02-Feb-2011 By Gurjit Degun
Licensees have been given more time to abide by a requirement to advertise the energy efficiency of their pubs when selling them. The new regulation...
Chris Maclean: It's not 'where', but 'what' is the publicans' voice?'
01-Feb-2011 By Chris Maclean
The tragic answer to the question "Where is the publicans' voice?" must surely be "What is the publicans' voice?" The staggering truth reveals our...
Pubs looking for Olympic opening hours extension
01-Feb-2011
Pubs could be in for an Olympic boost with at least one London council looking to extend opening hours during next year's summer games. Westminster...
Ban on pub's outside drinkers stays after third appeal
01-Feb-2011 By James Wilmore
A London pub which was forced to ban people from drinking outside after 6pm has lost its third appeal against the decision. The Endurance in Berwick...
31-Jan-2011 By The PMA Team
Moorhouse's has enjoyed a buoyant start to 2011 with both increased sales and the first award wins for beer brewed in its new 'tower brewery'. Last...
Capital Pub Company: it's a London thing...
31-Jan-2011 By Hamish Champ
Aristotle had his epiphany in the bath. Sir Isaac Newton saw stars in an orchard. James Hargreaves watched his daughter Jenny knock over a spinning...
Fun times ahead...
31-Jan-2011 By Hamish Champ
The publication last week of the latest GDP figures showing the UK economy contracted by half a per cent in the final three months of 2010 came as a...
Caroline Nodder: Where is the publicans' voice?
31-Jan-2011 By Caroline Nodder
I've banged on about the general failings of trade associations a fair bit over the last few years, and I've no doubt put a few noses out of joint in...
Pub Bitch: Don't blame it on the (lack of) sunshine
31-Jan-2011
Arse appeal You've got to admire - and please accept my apologies for the pun - the bare-faced cheek of some people. Welsh brewer SA Brain is giving...
Hamish Champ: Fancy a ride aboard the de-tox bus?
31-Jan-2011 By Hamish Champ
For some the excess of Christmas and New Year is inevitably followed by a January of abstinence, when bodies are given time to recover and regroup....
28-Jan-2011 By Lesley Foottit
The British Beer and Pub Association has created a guide for pubs and brewers to encourage them to take part in British Tourism Week.
Pub lays claim to smallest cinema
28-Jan-2011 By Matt Eley Matt
Is this the smallest public cinema in the country? Staff at the Old Fighting Cocks in Telford, Shropshire, seem to think so. They have transformed...
27-Jan-2011 By The PMA Team
The BII's dynamic approach to tackling the issues of the trade has laid the foundations for a more ambitious direction in the future, says The PMA Team.
27-Jan-2011 By The PMA Team
A detailed report by administrator Zolfo Cooper shows 12 offers were received for the company or most of it with a further 20 offers for multiple sites or single sites.
Finalists for The Publican Awards 2011 announced
27-Jan-2011 By Caroline Nodder
Bar Person of the YearSusan Lane, The Famous Woolpack, Weston-super-Mare, AvonHayley McGrath, The Admiral Napier, Cardiff, South GlamorganRebecca...
