Pro smoking group calls for exemptions
Pro smoker's lobby group Forest has called for some pubs to be allowed smoking rooms and for private members clubs to be allowed to decide their own...
Archives for June 24, 2007
Surveys, surveys, and more surveys
Against a backdrop of rising interest rates, shaky consumer confidence and the depressing prospect of there being another two months before the start...
Comment: Pointless Exercise
When I was about eight I was bought a replica shirt of my beloved football team, which is Watford (yes, Watford - you may have heard of them -...
Scots docs slam cheap shop booze
Scottish doctors have called for an end to cheap supermarket booze promotions. The pressure on the off-trade in Scotland has intensified this month...
Planes, trains and Geronimo Inns
Locating the Black Swan pub in the Surrey enclave of Ockham is easy - if you know where you're going. Horror film aficionados know it well, since in...
3663 launches local range in East Anglia
3663 has launched the next phase of its locally sourced product initiative. aimed at customers in East Anglia. Th elaunch was marked with a farmers'...
Ultimate Leisure buys Living Room for £28m
Ultimate Leisure has acquired Living Ventures - which operates the Living Room bar and restaurant brand - for £28m.Ultimate said it hoped to create...
Spirit pub fined over hygiene breaches
Spirit Group has been fined £17,500 for seven breaches of food hygiene rules at an Edinburgh pub.The managed pub operator, owned by Punch Taverns,...
Lancashire's finest take the culinary crown
A team from Blackpool and The Fylde College have won the prestigous Nestlé Toque d'Or student chef challenge .The competition tests students'...
What the papers say - June 25, 2007
Sales of fine wines costing £20 or more continued to help drive growth at Majestic Wines last year. The wines and spirits retailer said that pre-tax...
Licence suspended for illegal Sky screening
Host has personal licence suspended for six months after screening Sky football in his pub using a domestic contract.
Chris Maclean: a sad wash-out
Yesterday they had a Medieval Fayre in town.It poured with rain.I walked past the few stalls they had, saw some people putting a brave face on things...
Brewer George Bateman dies
George Bateman, the head of Lincolnshire family brewer George Bateman & Son, has died. Mr George, as he was affectionately known at the...