Jukeboxes are part of the furniture in most pubs. And new technology means customers can choose a tune without leaving their seats The humble jukebox...
Licensee Adam Billingham stands absorbed, demonstrating a form of entertainment becoming increasingly popular in pubs. He is flailing his arms in the...
Pubs that run quizzes and karaoke nights have always paid more in tax according to the government agency that works out how businesses are taxed.The...
Reports that pubs could be taxed extra for running quizzes are wide of the mark. The Mail on Sunday claimed plans for the secret quiz tax is included...
Pub gaming is on the brink of a digital revolution. For almost 1,000 years, maybe longer, there has been a tradition of game playing and gambling in...
With research showing that the Scottish smoking ban has had a negative impact on AWP takings, licensees need to pay their machines extra attention if...
"It's usually funny and, when it's not, it's barbed and beautiful." So says the host of a cutting edge comedy night that has been splitting the sides...
There is something impenetrably mysterious about Morris dancing. No one quite seems to know how it started, and the way it has finished up offers few...
By John Harrington john.harrington@william-reed.co.u
Doctors and nurses in Manchester are to ask drunken patients where they had their last drink so that police can locate irresponsible pubs and clubs....
Pubs will no longer need permission from their local authority to operate poker or other gaming under proposals published yesterday by the Department...
The Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) has set out new proposals to control the provision of gaming in clubs and premises licensed to sell alcohol.
Pubs would face massive hikes in costs to operate gaming machines under new Government plans. A pub with three machines would see initial fees rocket...
Fruit machines have for many decades been an integral part of the pub scene - and a vital source of extra income for many publicans, too. But now the...
There was a time when licensees could take a casual approach to live music - but that was last year. Since the new licensing regime came in, putting...
Pubs across the City of London will be the venues for a mammoth summer pub quiz with a difference. Safety Thirst, the organisation which rewards pubs...
Licensees could face massive price hikes of close to 300 per cent to run music events such as discos in their pubs. The increase in tariffs will come...
