Glass Half Full
Former Beautiful Beer public relations manager Ros Shiel reflects on life after redundancy in her first Morning Advertiser blog. Days since being...
Archives for November 3, 2008
'Pub trade faces 4,000 closures'
More than 4,000 pubs will go out of business in the next two years as beer sales fall and higher bills crush profits, according to insolvency...
A constant state of flux
Twenty years ago the brewing and pub industry was, as usual, grumbling. In 1986 the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) had ordered the Monopolies &...
'Lethal' vodka seized from shops
The Food Standards Agency has put councils across the country on alert after counterfeit bottles of vodka were found laced with potentially lethal...
Hamish Champ: Have we learned anything from the credit crunch?
I was on holiday last week doing the half-term thing with my nine year-old. In between the usual visits to cinemas and museums I listened to a lot of...
Mark Daniels: Something to cheer about...
Who would have thought that watching Formula One in a pub could be so exciting? Yet, as a small crowd of people gathered in my Public Bar yesterday...