05-Dec-2008 By John Harrington
Pubs with older cellar cooling and air-conditioning systems may have to upgrade them to abide by European rules from the start of 2010. New checks...
03-Dec-2008 By Tony Halstead
Licensees are being caught out by new-style entrapment tactics employed by trading standards officers to target underage tobacco sales. Officers are...
27-Nov-2008 By The PMA Team
Pubs' performance can be split into three distinct groups, The PMA Team says.
Cigarette machine ban facing backlash
17-Nov-2008 By James Wilmore
Government plans to introduce a ban on cigarette vending machines in pubs are facing a major political backlash. The vending machine ban is among a...
Praise for pubs that ditch cigarette machines
23-Oct-2008 By Matt Eley Matt
Pubs are being urged to remove cigarette vending machines from their premises in a bid to stop youngsters smoking. A government consultation is...
'Mayor calls for cigarette vending machine ban'
20-Oct-2008
The elected mayor of Middlesbrough is calling for pubs in the town to get rid of cigarette vending machines. Ray Mallon believes the move would help...
14-Jul-2008 By Ewan Turney
But microbrewery BrewDog claim beer is for the connoisseurs and to be savoured - not drunk irresponsibly.
30-Jun-2008 By Ewan Turney
Call comes after a 50% rise in test purchase failure rates
'Cigarette vending machines should be banned'
30-Jun-2008
Council leaders are calling for a total ban on coin-operated cigarette vending machines, after new figures showed that sales of cigarettes to...
A healthy sparkle
19-Jun-2008
Carbonated drinks already account for 81% of soft drinks volumes in pubs — and there's still room for expansion The carbonated soft drink reigns...
Tough proposals on cig machines
05-Jun-2008 By John Harrington john.harrington@william-reed.co.u
Electronic ID card to buy fags in pubs Tough measures to stop sales to children are proposed as an alternative to a ban on cigarette vending...
03-Jun-2008 By Ewan Turney
The Alcohol Health Alliance (AHA) has called for "strong action" on the price of alcohol
Health Secretary hints at action on supermarket deals
02-Jun-2008 By James Wilmore
Health Secretary Alan Johnson today confirmed the government is willing to take "mandatory action" against supermarkets that sell alcohol as a loss...
Cigarette vending machines to be outlawed
02-Jun-2008 By Matt Eley Matt
Cigarette vending machines could be banned from pubs in a wave of new measures aimed at stopping people smoking. Details of the government's The...
02-Jun-2008 By John Harrington
Tough measures to stop sales to children are proposed as an alternative to an outright ban on cigarette vending machines. This weekend the Government...
Unite strives to improve dray safety
27-Mar-2008
Trade union Unite has called for the introduction of minimum safety standards for beer delivery workers. Unite has devised a six-point plan to...
Nick Yates: Health of Marathon runners weighed up by London Pride
19-Feb-2008
The results are in. The age old question of whether chefs or publicans have the more healthy cholesterol levels has once and for all been put to bed...
'Don't tell us that higher tax on drink is healthy'
07-Feb-2008
Fancy a drink? Get to the bar quickly because the price of a round is set to rocket. Around the taxpayer-subsidised watering Palace of Westminster,...
08-Jan-2008
Almost 80% of targeted pubs in Milton Keynes allowed children to buy cigarettes from vending machines
08-Jan-2008
Pub fag machines should be replaced by nicotine gum and patch dispensers to help people quit - that's the call from Manchester's smoking tsar....
Healthy debate
13-Dec-2007
Can pubs capitalise effectively on the rise of the health-conscious consumer? Noli Dinkovski reports from a special MA forum Living well and...
Village pubs' anger over cigarette machine ban
06-Dec-2007
Rural pubs have slammed new government plans which could see a blanket ban on cigarette vending machines. The proposals come as part of a five-year...
'Kids allowed to buy cigarettes in pubs'
02-Dec-2007
Pub landlords let kids as young as 14 buy cigarettes from vending machines, a shock People investigation has discovered. Staff at the Black Horse in...
13-Nov-2007 By Ewan Turney
Lobby group pushing for a tax increase on alcohol launched this morning
12-Nov-2007
The BBPA has posed five key questions to the Alcohol Health Alliance
Trade faces battle with health lobby over alcohol
07-Nov-2007 By James Wilmore
The pub industry has been urged to prepare itself for a major and lengthy battle with health lobby groups over the issue of alcohol. Speaking at the...
02-Nov-2007 By John Harrington
Pubs where under-18s buy cigarettes three times could be banned from selling tobacco for up a year
Pubs' ciggie sales threat
01-Nov-2007 By John Harrington john.harrington@william-reed.co.u
Pubs where under-18s buy cigarettes three times within two years could be banned from selling tobacco products for up to 12 months. But despite the...
Pete Robinson: Discarded fag ends? What a load of rubbish!
07-Aug-2007
A survey last year by the Tidy Britain Group claimed that '80 per cent' of town centres were already blighted by cigarette litter. Now the Local...
Scottish health initiative criticised
16-May-2007
Scottish health activists have slammed a voluntary approach by the drinks trade to promote responsible drinking.Senior medical figures and academics...
09-May-2007 By Iain O'Neil
Local authorities preparing for 25 tonnes of extra cigarette rubbish each day as a result of the smoking bans
The only healthy liver in the village?
03-May-2007
Channel 4's Dispatches this week set up a liver-testing clinic at Westminster and asked 200 MPs who signed the Early Day Motion about supermarket...
Three quarters of unclaimed gas cylinders unsafe, say experts
17-Apr-2007 By Gareth Iacobucci
Up to three quarters of gas cylinders left unclaimed in pubs would fail safety tests, says a leading gas company. BOC Sureserve is warning licensees...
Alcohol highlighted as top risk to health
05-Apr-2007
ALCOHOL HAS been highlighted as one of the top five 'greatest risks' to health. The five national priorities set for health enforcement in local...
Peer calls for labels to help child health
15-Feb-2007 By Ewan Turney ewan.turney@william-reed.co.uk
A Labour Peer has called for all cans and bottles of alcohol to carry health warnings aimed at pregnant women. At the end of January, Lord Mitchell...
Pinstripe: Shooting, rugby and cigarettes
02-Feb-2007
I know it's only anecdotally arrived at but I reckon when it comes to industry 'R&R', half the sector and their business acquaintances love...
Supplier warns - 'be gas safe'
14-Dec-2006 By John Harrington john.harrington@william-reed.co.u
Licensees are putting lives at risk by not using drinks dispense gas safely, the largest supplier of the trade has warned. Pubs risk lethal gas leaks...
27-Oct-2006 By John Harrington
Health secretary Patricia Hewitt has called for tax on alcohol to be increased to reduce binge drinking among teenagers. In an interview with...
26-Oct-2006 By Roger Protz
Where does freedom end and authoritarianism begin? That question was prompted by a speech given by pubco boss Chris Holmes to the annual awards lunch...
11-Oct-2006
Scottish bar staff have showed marked improvement in breathing-related problems within weeks of the smoking ban, scientists claim. The report from...
Healthy attitude
01-Oct-2006
British consumer demand is moving towards healthy food, but are pubs responding effectively to this significant trend? Humayun Hussain reports
09-Aug-2006 By John Harrington
A multiple operator that faced massive gas bill hikes after changing supplier following a "cold call" from a utilities agent is set to save around...
12-Jul-2006
Thousands of pubs offering food could be posing a "significant risk" to public health because of poor hygiene standards. That is according to a new...
05-Jul-2006 By Iain O'Neil
The Government's Health Bill - which contains the proposed legislation on the smoking ban - passed through the House of Lords yesterday on its way to becoming law. NEW COMMENT
26-Jun-2006 By John Harrington
Two new surveys by health campaigners say the Scottish smoking ban has attracted new punters to pubs but trade chiefs are not so sure. NEW COMMENT
Health minister hears new demands on smoking from the BBPA
15-Jun-2006
A new string of demands from the hospitality industry ahead of the smoking ban has been made to health minister Caroline Flint.With the Health Bill...
Health warning claims refuted by DoH
20-Apr-2006
The Department of Health (DoH) has denied claims that licensees will be forced to display cigarette-style notices warning about the health dangers of...
24-Mar-2006 By Iain O'Neil
A study into the impact of banning smoking on the health of bar staff is to take place in Scotland. NEW COMMENT
HSE plan for health and safety 'doomed to failure'
19-Jan-2006
The Health & Safety Executive (HSE) has launched a campaign to get small businesses, including pubs, to improve health and safety measures.
Close but no cigar - Pub Sandwich of the Year 2005
01-Jun-2005
Commended entries in Pub Sandwich of the Year 2005 Chef: Adrian McIntosh, Royal Oak, Flimwell, East Sussex Sandwich: Royal Oak steak baguette -...
