Archives for January 16, 2012

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Aylesbury ends its beer duck

By Roger Protz

Brewing has been restored to Aylesbury after a gap of 74 years. It seems scarcely credible that the town in Buckinghamshire, with a population of 60,000, has been without a beer maker since the Aylesbury Brewing Company (ABC) was taken over almost...

Sky announces new discounts for pubs

By Adam Pescod

Sky is to introduce deeper discounts for pubs serving food, as well as a new location-based discount, as it looks to encourage more pubs to show live sport. Commercial Sky subscriptions will also now be available on a rolling 30-day contract to give pubs...

BISC: Pubcos 'drinking in last chance saloon'

By Michelle Perrett

Pubcos are “drinking in the last chance saloon” but regulation will not solve the pubco-tenant relationship, Burton MP Andrew Griffiths told MPs last week.

On track for the Games?

With the world set to descend on London for the 2012 Olympics, the Publican’s Morning Advertiser team ventured into Stratford, in the East End, to find out how publicans are preparing for a sporting spectacle in their own backyard.