Hundreds of London & Edinburgh Swallow Group (LESG) licensees face the extraordinary prospect of a direct relationship with the freehold owner of their pub in the wake of the company's collapse.
Fresh concerns have emerged over a possible threat to outside smoking areas under next year's ban. Submissions to the consultation on the details of...
November is a bit of a lean month - people are still paying for their summer holidays and want to curb their spending before Christmas. This tends to...
One London pub sponsors local football teams and even joins the regulars on holiday. Jo Grobel meets the latest winner of our Heart of the Community pub honours
A Shepherd Neame lessee has good reason for a double celebration - 70 years in the trade and her 90th birthday. Rhona Barnett, of the Rose in June at...
A licensee who arrived home after a quadruple heart-bypass only to find his pub destroyed by 2ft of water has found help from his regulars.Customers...
Kent brewer Shepherd Neame has recorded its 31st consecutive year of growth, seeing pre-tax profits up 13.9 per cent at £11.2mAnnouncing its results...
An aggressive expansion programme has been cited as lying behind London and Edinburgh Swallow Groups' downfall, although it was a strategy that group...
An industry bigwig once suggested how odd it was of The Publican to employ me, a "left-wing socialist" (as opposed to a right-wing one, presumably),...
Having taken the leap from pub chef to co-proprietor, James Burn aims to transform the Crown into a destination food pub. In a new series PubChef will chart the highs and lows over his initial year of trading. Fiona McLelland reports
Punch Taverns announced what it called "a significant milestone" this week, with the completion of its 100th conversion from Spirit managed to leased...
JD Wetherspoon is set to build the greenest pub in the UK. The company wants to use a wind turbine to power a pub that is planned in Melton Mowbray....
Punch Taverns has let the first 100 pubs from the 725 Spirit outlets being converted to lease. The 100th inn is the Silver Jubilee in Canvey Island,...
"GHOST TOWN Britain." "10 years to save the high street." "Your local pub may soon be extinct."If any of those newspaper headlines from recent months...
Laurel Pub Company's new chief executive Paul Symonds has revealed details of the pub and bar group's second major divisional overhaul in less than a...
The 25th anniversary edition of the Good Pub Guide 2007 is out today - with several retailers reverting to 1983's beer prices to celebrate. The Five...
Called to the JDW bar Judges are often accused of being out of touch with ordinary people. But Snifter wouldn't say that about the judge he met while...
