Cost of appeals will rise for licensees
The cost for pubs of appealing against any licence condition, or refusal to vary a licence, will rise from £75 to £400 from 1 October. The original...
Archives for August 16, 2007
Chris Maclean: 50 days of smoke-free
This weekend will signify 50 days of the smoking ban. Only now can we start drawing realistic conclusions. Even so it is impossible to separate out...
Pete Robinson: Who's law is it anyway?
Does it belong to the Government? The police? The Queen maybe? How about the judges? Do they own the law? Wrong on all counts. Read the Magna Carta...
Heartstone Inns banks £3m in new financing
Heartstone Inns, the Reading-based pubco founded earlier this year by industry veterans Stuart Hawthorn and James Birch, has raised £3m in a second...
Traces of polonuim210 found at Hey Jo Club
Hey Joe Club in Mayfair, which is currently publicly flouting the smoking ban, has been named by Westminster City Council as one of 21 premises that...
Rugby World Cup: Rugby conversion
THE RUGBY World Cup is set to draw huge numbers of sports fans to the pub to watch the tournament. Licensees are gearing up for the start of an event...
Water claims not allowed
Pubs in Gloucestershire that were affected by the loss of running water due to the floods will not be able to claim compensation from Severn Trent...
Coming your way? The new stealth tax
HM Revenue & Customs has published its proposals for changes to the way in which publicans and others will obtain tax relief for expenditure on...
Back to Basics: Stocktaking
For pubs and hotels it can now be the difference between success and failure, profit and loss. Indeed, there are many recent cases where it has...
Rugby World Cup: The legends pick their winners
THE PUBLICAN scrummed down with some world cup heroes and rugby legends to get their thoughts ahead of a sporting event that should mean big...
Radioactive material found at Hey Jo
Hey Jo, the West End bar owned by smoking ban critic Dave West, was contaminated with radioactive polonium210 around the time that former KGB spy...
Rugby World Cup: Pubs prepare for rugby fest
SINCE THE heady days of England¹s rugby World Cup win in 2003, brands and pubcos have been rampaging like a prop forward to get a piece of the rugby...
Pubs urged to raise standards on real ale
Cask Marque has launched a new campaign in a bid to attract more drinkers to real ale and encourage pubs to raise standards. The Campaign for Great...
Rugby World Cup: The beer world cup
What better way to celebrate the imminent start of the Rugby World Cup than with a beer tasting? Halves were sipped, aromas were sniffed and notes...