Legal advice: Licence application fees set to rise by 7%
The Independent Fees Review Panel has submitted its final report on the fees introduced by the Licensing Act 2003. As you may be aware, many...
Archives for February 7, 2007
Trade calls for "light touch" over smoke ban
Trade leaders call for "light touch" enforcement of the smoking ban
Day in the Life: breakfast and brunch
Breakfast: so many statistics, often entirely contradictory, are rolled out regarding the various benefits or otherwise of different food and drink....
Bar owner praised in drug fight
A Lincolnshire bar owner has been praised for helping police fight drug use by allowing his customers and his bar to be swabbed for drugs.
Fuller's sends out smoke signals
Fuller's is gearing up for the smoking ban by a newsletter to customers in its pubs. The campaign, designed to educate people about the precise...
Chris Maclean: traditional pubs are being overlooked
This afternoon is the LVA meeting. They are usually good fun and the other licensees get along well. There is a strong sense of collective effort for...
Durham Fat Buddha to open
Utopian Leisure, the bar, nightclub and restaurant company is planning to open a 8,500 sq ft Japanese barbecue restaurant in Durham.
Day in the Life: Morning
There have always been pubs that thrived on breakfast trade. Special licences were issued for those next to markets to enable the porters to slake...
Day in the Life: case study
For most of us, 50 miles north of Inverness sounds like a reasonable definition of 'off the beaten track'. However, it's here, where the Scottish...
The rules of the game
All eyes were on Portsmouth magistrates court last month in the latest episode in the battle over foreign satellite systems. One of the 'Portsmouth...
Day in the Life: chameleons and day parts
Long gone are the days when pubs shut in the afternoon after a three-hour trading session and opened at five ready for the evening.It does seem...
CAMRA makes six-point system available online
The Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA) is to introduce a new online National Beer Scoring Scheme (NBSS) to rate the quality of beer in pubs.The NBSS is a...
Wales smoking regulations published
The Welsh Assembly has published the regulations for the smoking ban giving details of what it considers an outside area from April 2, 2007.As...