Further push for 48-hour working week cap
More pub managers are set to cap their working hours as the EU presses the government to implement the 48-hour working week.Trade union the National...
Archives for January 8, 2004
Wine buffs to pump up Harris Arms' list
The new owners of the Harris Arms in west Devon will have no trouble in recommending a good wine for punters to enjoy with their pub meals. Andy and...
Drink-drive limit cut fear for rural pubs
Rural pubs are facing another blow to business after a leading police officer called for drink-drive limits to be reduced.Chief Constable Richard...
Cliquey IFBB shuns brewers
This is written more in sorrow than in anger. I know all the companies that make up the Independent Family Brewers of Britain (IFBB) and some of the...
Great expectations of uncertainty
It was the most uncertain of times. It was the most certain of times. The nod to Charles Dickens, Morning Advertiser's most famous contributor, is...
Advertising drive is no act of folly
Wharfedale Brewery at Hetton in the Yorkshire Dales, is causing quite a stir with its "Drinking is Folly" slogan on the local busservice. There have...
Call for industry-wide drug-rape initiative
by John Harrington Campaigners are repeating their call for an industry-wide strategy to deal with drink spiking in venues, after separate tests over...
As Wadworth runs a 6X campaign based on visual puns,its head
Two very serious German people are talking. One says to the other: "My dog has no nose." The other replies "How does it smell?" "It cannot smell. It...
What effect is the new stamp duty on leases having on your b
It adds to cost of purchasing pubs." TD Ridley & Sons "Introducing shorter leases or switching to tenancies as a preferred option." Tadcaster Pub...
Colin Wheeler, chief executive of the Society of Licensed V
Over the last 210 years the Society of Licensed Victuallers (SLV) has had to change and alter to enable it to adapt to the ever-changing licensed...
Mixed message over festive trading
Brewers received their Christmas bonus with a whopping 18 million extra pints sold over the festive period. The British Beer & Pub Association...
Chris Hutt
The Wizard Inns MD salutes the lure of the big outlets The Botanic Inn, in Belfast, just along from the university, has been an icon for generations...
What are you doing to help lessees/tenants with the new Lice
We are producing a simple format for operating schedules and a central resource for details of relevant official contacts." Tadcaster Pub Company "We...
Yates sinks teeth into Atkins menu
by Claire Hu Yates Group has launched the first high-street pub Atkins-style menu, in a bid to cash in on the seasonal struggle to shed post-festive...
Man shot dead in pub
A man was shot dead in a suspected targeted attack in a Liverpool pub as he celebrated the New Year. Danny McDonald, 20, was shot several times while...