Archives for January 26, 2006

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Bar Talk

Is an all-out smoking ban now the best option?

May the force be with you

Marstons and the Morning Advertiser's CaskForce venture is providing licensees with invaluable information on how to keep their beer in the best possible shape. Jo de Mille caught up with the man spearheading the countrywide training programme.

Alliance urges MPs to force total smoke ban

By Iain O'Neil

MPs have been urged to vote for a total smoke ban or risk pubs up and down the country going out of business. The message comes from an unprecedented...

Hosts savour success in

By John Harrington

Hosts are beginning to score victories against councils that have set unfair conditions on their licences. Leicester licensee John Fenton...

Shake up in the Spirit world

The next two years will see the biggest en masse transfer of managed pubs into tenanted and leased houses in 10 years. Swathes of existing Spirit...

No apartheid in smoking

The crucial vote on whether to ban smoking in all public places looks set for 14 February. And, if the direst warnings from some pub leaders are to...

Become a true match maker

By Jo de Mille

Daffodils, fresh mornings and April showers - and for some pubs, the dreaded tax return deadline - all come to mind when you think of spring. But...

THE GUV'NOR

So, Tony Blair thinks he can legislate and make everyone show "respect". His "agenda" involves intervening early to "help" problem families and...

RENTWATCH

Licensee Paul Dearing thought fate had dealt him a cruel hand when Punch decided to more than triple his rent at the Kings Arms in Newport, East...