Children's smoke exposure increases after pub bans
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Archives for March 5, 2007
Que pasa Marston's?
Leafing through a Wolverhampton & Dudley Breweries (W&DB) annual report from 1990 triggers memories of the political climate of the time....
St Patrick's Day: don't overlook food
Food? On St Patrick's Day? What are you, some sort of an eejit?That, give or take a few expletives, would almost certainly have been the reaction of...
A show for your business
In just over four weeks time the curtain will come up on Publican Live. The Publican's Pub & Bar Show has been completely revamped with a new...
Chris Maclean: the price is all right
So yesterday I put my prices up. I did it in my usual cowardly way.Having decided what the price shall now be, and taking into account all sorts of...
Pubs must act to avoid menu origin laws
Pub groups must stop hiding behind excuses and give customers more information on the origin of meat on the menu, says Labour minister Lord...
Legal advice: Applying for a licence under the new regime
The legal steps required to open a pub, bar or restaurant are, in parts, perplexing and often cause frustration and annoyance to those new to the...
St Patrick's Day: up for the craic!
St Patrick's Day is always, as those pesky kids would say, "a large one". But this year it will be particularly large, because once in a while all...
St Patrick's Day: raise a glass to the saint
March is an eagerly anticipated month for licensees in Great Britain, and indeed around the world, as with it comes one of the most well established...
St Patrick's Day: stout support
THERE ARE plenty of drinks brands out there with good, solid Irish heritage. Indeed, with the Celtic Tiger continuing to roar on, a marketing guru...
St Patrick's Day: credit is Dew...
An American point-of-sale poster featuring a burly Irish rugby player hangs prominently on the wall in the Tullamore Dew Heritage Centre in...
A market adjustment or the beginning of the end?
There's a saying that when America sneezes the rest of us catch a cold. When Alan Greenspan, former head of the Federal Reserve - the Yankee...
Alcohol and tobacco more dangerous than ecstasy, says study
Government urged to consider reclassifying drugs according to the harm they do - and putting alcohol and tobacco above illegal drugs like ecstasy.