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...
26-Jun-2006 By Iain O'Neil
Marcus Wareing, of Michelin-starred restaurant Petrus, has said that airline food is better the what is served up in most of Britain's pubs. Wareing...
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...
Greene King remains tight-lipped over plans for Hardys & Hansons' brewery
23-Jun-2006 By Hamish Champ
Greene King says that until it gains full control of Hardys & Hansons (H&H) it would be "inappropriate" to discuss its plans for the...
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...
A Punch below the belt - a column by Phil Dixon
22-Jun-2006
Attitudes may be changing on both sides of the great pub-trade divide, but - as PHIL DIXON observes - there's still a crying need for more transparency in rental calculations
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...
20-Jun-2006 By The PMA Team
Former Spirit Group chief executive Karen Jones has celebrated the award of a CBE with a return to the pub industry has bought the lease on five former Sprit gastro pubs in London.
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...
Greene King moves into W&DB territory with Hardys purchase
15-Jun-2006 By Hamish Champ
Greene King has agreed to buy Nottingham-based brewer Hardys & Hansons (H&H) for £270m.The deal brings the number of pubs Greene King owns...
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 Iain O'Neil
Greene King has unveiled an agreed offer to buy Hardys and Hansons for £271m. The Suffolk-based brewer will pay shareholders £10.59 a share -...
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...
Hosepipe ban applies to pub gardens but cans OK
15-Jun-2006 By Lucy Britner
The current hosepipe and sprinkler ban in the south-east does apply to pubs, despite water boards giving commercial properties the green light to use...
Everards sells freetrade business
13-Jun-2006 By James Wilmore
Everards Brewery has agreed to sell its independent freetrade business to WaverleyTBS with effect from June 30. WaverleyTBS will acquire an...
Crehan case comes to an unexpected halt
13-Jun-2006
The landmark case of Bernie Crehan v Inntrepreneur, which was being heard in the House of Lords, has come to an unexpected halt.The Lords had heard...
What the Sunday papers said
11-Jun-2006
The roll-out of the government's controversial identity card scheme is set to be delayed by a Home Office failure to begin the procurement process on...
09-Jun-2006 By The PMA Team
Another company is following the Provence business model and is trying to sell pub freeholds to private investors for large profits by offering a...
09-Jun-2006
THE safest pubs, bars and clubs in the Lancashire towns of Blackburn and Darwen were honoured when the Best Bar None scheme hit the region. The...
09-Jun-2006 By Ewan Turney
We need to know what you would do to make life easier for the UK's struggling licensees
Win the shirt off Rooney's back!
08-Jun-2006
With World Cup fever gripping the nation we've got a competition to help you make the most of it - and raise some money for a really worthwhile cause...
08-Jun-2006 By Iain O'Neil
Punch Taverns has confirmed the sale of 290 former Spirit pubs for £571million to US firm GI Partners. GI Partners is understood to have beaten off...
07-Jun-2006 By John Harrington
A campaign has been launched to make sure pubs use widescreen TV correctly during the World Cup. IT expert and football fan Vincent Lo is fed up with...
06-Jun-2006 By The PMA Team
Former Soho Clubs & Bars chief executive Jeremy Gordeno has bought 10 leasehold nightclubs, the Morning Advertiser has learnt. Gordeno, who has...
06-Jun-2006 By Iain O'Neil
A licensee who used a Welsh flag as target practice at a St George's Day event has been questioned by police over alleged racism. Angie Sayer used...
06-Jun-2006 By John Harrington
J D Wetherspoon has overturned a ban on England shirts after a high-profile case involving a two-year-old boy. The High Street pub chain got a bit of...
06-Jun-2006 By Iain O'Neil
A Home Office report has found 93% of 10 to 15-year-olds surveyed said they had been able to buy alcohol in pubs. However, it is not clear what...
What the Sunday papers said
05-Jun-2006
Pubs in Tyne & Wear have been barred from flying the flag of St George during the upcoming World Cup because safety experts claim they could pose...
05-Jun-2006 By Iain O'Neil
Drinkers in Coventry were asked to walk through a metal detector as part of a police clampdown on knives. NEW COMMENT
05-Jun-2006
Pub marketing company Promotions on Tap has teamed up with BBC Sport Relief in a bid to get pub regulars walking that extra mile for charity on...
