WKD smoke ban prizes up for grabs
Beverage Brands (UK) has responded to the imminent smoking ban in their own inimitable style by producing head-turning point-of-sale kits with a WKD...
Archives for June 20, 2007
Full transcript of interview with Vernon Coaker
Ewan Turney met up with Home Offcie minister Vernon Coaker last week - 13 June 2007 - to discuss the National Alcohol Strategy ET: Is it fair to say...
New guidance on terrorism
Pubs and clubs are being issued with a new guide to counter the threat of a terrorist attack. The Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO) has...
Move to outlaw pub banter
Licensees who allow customers to flirt with or pester barmaids could face legal action under new equality laws being drawn up by the Government. The...
InBrief
Swindon's plan for the ban Swindon Borough Council is planning to pedestrianise half of Fleet Street in the New Town circuit to cope with the smoking...
Hamish Champ: If music be the food of something or other
It's been a long time since I've hung out with a roomful of rock legends. OK, it's been a long time since I've been in the same room as a roomful of...
The Cocktail Challenge
For the last couple of years a lot has been written in these pages and a lot has been said in training courses across the country about the potential...
MyNewPub
Garry & Carol Stickland, The Three Horseshoes, Letchmore Heath, Hertfordshire Agent: Christie+Co Garry Dunks and Carol Stickland have just...
Greene King's pub vouchers
Greene King is running a national ad campaign - with money-off vouchers - to get punters in the pub for the start of the English smoking ban. Under...
Trade boss slams move to open toilets
A trade leader claims pubs could become centres for drug traders if licensees are forced to open their toilets to the public. Guild of Master...
Watch those ID dates
Test purchasers are using genuine ID that says they are a couple of months under 18 during the current national sting operation, the MA has learnt....
LETTERs
Crack down on the ID fakers I refer to the article by Ewan Turney on fake ID card holders (Morning Advertiser, 31 May 2007). Scunthorpe Pubwatch is...
Time to stop making up licensing rules
For many years there has been a simple view that the Government makes laws and the police enforce them. There should be - so the books tell us - a...
MyShout
The necessity for a rational alcohol policy is finally getting through to ministers, says John Grogan Most ministers have cleared their diaries for...
Seafood focus: What's the catch?
Whether you're serving fish fingers or Dover sole, the latest buzzword in seafood is sustainability. Pubs are being urged to capitalise on the...
Gambling with deadlines
Peter Coulson, MA legal expert, looks at the issues around gaming licences
BarTalk
What would you buy Tony Blair for a leaving present? Fiona Horsby Thomas Rigby's, Liverpool Probably 200 Benson & Hedges and an ashtray! We're...
Seafood focus: Fish frenzy
Breaded haddock fillets with horseradish mash & creamed leeksCooking time: 15 minutesIngredients250-350g potatoes Horseradishtwo large leeks75ml...
Underage stings here to stay
Minister determined to totally stamp out sales of alcohol to under-18s
Elixir of youth
Could allowing youngsters into pubs reduce social disorder while providing a new source of income? Andrew Jefford tunes in to the unheard voices of today's disaffected under-16s
The way of the Dragon
Copper Dragon boss Steve Taylor invites Tony Halstead into his lair and reveals how he plans to expand without compromising his beliefs Real-ale...
Reading the smoke signals
The imminent smoking ban in England presents a significant trading opportunity - despite licensees' fears that it will ruin their businesses -...
Licensing@aol.com
Old notices in the bar QWe still have the statutory Licensing Act 1964 notice about drinking-up time displayed in our bar. This notice is out of...
Business Opinion with Hamish Stoddart
Co-founder of Peach Pub Company talks about leases
THE AGENTS
Graham Allman Managing director GA Select The domestic property market is always a barometer - though not the driver - for business transfer agents....
Andrew Pring looks at the drive to improve quality
Quality is the new watch-word for the trade today. Quality in everything you do as a licensee, be it quality of drink and food offer, quality of...
Leisure Property: leases of life
Britain's towns and cities are changing fast. When traditional industries die or move out of urban areas into industrial parks, they are replaced by...
Trade slams 'mob-handed' policing
Licensees and trade leaders have condemned police and licensing officers who are making "mob-handed" visits to pubs to check on premises licences and...
Local authorities fight claims of red tape over smoking
Local authorities have strongly refuted claims that planning red tape is leaving licensees in the lurch before the smoking ban on July 1.Planners say...
Smoke ban comes under fire
A group challenging the legality of the smoking ban has given the Government a "last chance" to consider amendments or face them in the High Court....
Campaigners urge end to live music red tape
The battle to save live music in pubs has been stepped-up following the final submission of an 80,000-signature petition to the Prime Minister. The...
BrandsBriefs
Cellar Trends builds range Cellar Trends is beefing up the range it offers pubs after winning the rights to a new tranche of brands. Gruppo Campari...
Adams re-elected as LTC chairman
Anita Adams, chairman of the Licensed Trade Charity (LTC) board of trustees, has been re-elected at a trustee's meeting and will serve another year...
NewsDigest
Freetrade readers have just over a week to share their views on the industry in the MA's annual survey of the sector. Last week's MA contained a...
Creative challenges
BII's chief executive John McNamara on food, the smoking ban and the BII's new food qualification Describe the BII's new Essentials in Catering...
Seafood focus: The fish factor
Selling seafood is nothing unusual for Matthew Fletcher - his family have been in the business for well over a century. What is new is that over the...
Easy ideas for your menu
Meat-free treats Frozen food supplier Glendale has increased its portfolio of meat-free dishes to include veggie burgers, stuffed peppers and...
Liberal Democrat leader gets behind Proud of Pubs
PROUD OF Pubs Week is continuing to capture the imagination of MPs and licensees - with Liberal Democrat leader Sir Menzies Campbell the latest...
Families 'will enjoy the great indoors'
A quarter of England's families are set to go to pubs more often once the country goes smokefree, new survey results from Cancer Research UK reveal....
Seafood focus: A wizard from Oz
No self-respecting Australian barbecue would be complete without a few fillets of lightly-grilled Barramundi, and this antipodean delight is becoming...
Cherie Blair helps club owner challenge Tony's smoking ban
Prime Minister's wife advises nightclub owner over smoking ban challenge
Cider goes global
Cider is on the march and much of the impetus is coming from abroad. Adrian Tierney-Jones reports from the International Exhibition of Quality Cider...
Thwaites extends property portfolio
Daniel Thwaites Brewery is expanding its portfolio of pubs after spending about £2m on five properties in the north of England. The company,...
Seafood focus: Peggy's seafood selections
Bernard Matthews salmon fillets in a wholemeal crumbKids are a spoilt lot these days, aren't they? Atlantic Norwegian salmon fillets coated in...
Caroline Flint claims support for the smoke ban has never been higher
With just ten days to go until the English smoking ban, Smokefree England has released figures it says show support has never been higher. According...
Row over satellite suppliers' Westminster invite
A BITTER war of words has erupted between the FA Premier League and MP John Grogan over the issue of foreign satellite football. Grogan announced...
Greene King to sell homes
Greene King has confirmed plans to sell off homes on its former Hardys & Hanson Brewery site. The brewery, in Kimberley, Nottinghamshire, is no...
The tide is starting to turn, says Roger Protz
Hawk-eyed readers may recall that I wrote recently about beer and pubs living in two parallel universes. There's one inhabited by the global brewers...
A Brew to be Proud of
There's more to making a decent cask ale than most pub-goers realise.A lot more - and doesn't The Publican team know it!We travelled to Leicester to...
Doorman loses licence for not wearing it
A Cumbrian doorman has become the first to lose his SIA licence for refusing to display it while manning the door. Scott Newton of Strathnaver...