Warning: Bank revaluations could lead to bankruptcy
Licensees with a loan from a high-street bank may be hit with more interest hikes, according to pub finance specialist Paul Thompson of Acorn Finance.
Archives for February 29, 2012
Blackpool minimum pricing scheme is 'responsible'
A Blackpool licensee has defended the town’s minimum-pricing scheme as a “responsible way of selling alcohol” amid further warnings that it is illegal.
Keep your eye on the ball
They think it’s all over... it is now for Karen Murphy. The final whistle has blown on her six-year legal battle against her conviction for using foreign satellite services to show live Premier League football in her Portsmouth pub, the Red, White & Blue.
Making the most of St Patrick's Day
For those willing to put in the hard yards and prepare for it, St Patrick’s Day can provide licensees with one of the busiest days of their year. Sheila McWattie reports.
Beer petition against beer duty hikes
Eleven MPs have supported calls for the beer duty escalator to be suspended in next month’s Budget.
Redcomb Pubs secures fifth site
Redcomb Pubs, the pub operator led by former Mitchells & Butlers executive Dan Shotton, has secured its fifth site, a Greene King leasehold in Cambridge.
Apprentices and young workers
The call for apprentices to receive full Government support in the licensed trade, even over 18, is a valid one, given the opportunities that can be created. But there has often been a problem about employing young people in connection with alcohol that...