Police block JDW pub plan
Police have blocked an attempt by JD Wetherspoon to open a pub on Cambridge Leisure Park. City magistrates have backed officers after they claimed...
Archives for July 19, 2007
Close to home
Just how local is local? It's a question pubs are increasingly being asked as consumers become more interested in the credentials of the food on...
Legal advice: Buying outside the tie?
Many tenants are required by a contractual obligation under their tenancy agreement to purchase beer and other products from their landlord or from...
Chris Maclean: smoke police call
I have just been visited by the smoking police while I was out. A woman from the local borough council with the neat title 'smoke-free projects...
What the papers say - July 20, 2007
The first official figures on the impact of the change in pub opening hours - in the Home Office's British Crime Survey - suggest the new licensing...
Hamish Champ: The smoking ban and 'national socialism'
Here's a quick quiz I just thought up. Don't write in, it's "just for fun". Hands up who thinks we live in a dictatorship? OK. Hands up how many...