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Pubs run in the family — her grandmother and her parents were all licensees — so despite a brief time managing hotels, Federation of Licensed Victuallers president Michelle Dwan quickly found herself back behind the bar.
Great British Pub Awards
Help us to celebrate the great British pub at this year's Great British Pub Awards.
Cocktails
The popularity of cocktails in pubs is higher than ever, with more than three quarters of the country’s bars now providing a cocktail menu.
Nottingham City Council raised £150,000 less in the first year of its late-night levy than it originally estimated, new figures have revealed.
PMA events
The hunt is now on for the UK’s best pubs and this year we’re making it even simpler for bars across the UK to enter the competition.
PMA events
It's your last chance to enter the Great British Pub Awards! We have extended entries until today to ensure that all of you that have begun the online process can finish off your forms.
Strongbow has been announced as the official drinks partner for Team GB for the upcoming Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.
Flooding
Timothy Taylor pub the Brown Cow in Bingley, West Yorkshire, has re-opened its doors for the first time after being damaged in the devastating Boxing Day floods.
PCA appointment row
The trade must look at the positives of the controversial appointment of Paul Newby as Pubs Code Adjudicator, according to Michelle Dwan, president of the Federation of Licensed Victuallers Association (FLVA).
Councils
Local councils have been urged to do more to help pubs suffering from loss of trade due to nearby roadworks or risk “shooting themselves in the foot”.
One in four people with a food allergy have suffered a reaction while eating in a pub, restaurant or café, despite the new Food Information to Consumer (FIC) regulations that came into force in 2014, figures from the Food Standards Agency (FSA) have shown.
Social media
A licensee has urged pubs to follow his lead after his sign offering to help customers on nightmare Tinder dates went viral.
Pubs have been urged to turn the music down and the lights up to help create a better experience for the 10 million deaf and hard of hearing in the UK.
Pubcos
Punch has urged tenants not to turn to their Punch Development Managers (PDMs) for advice on the pubs code and instead consult independent trade bodies like the British Institute of Innkeeping (BII) the Association of Licensed Multiple Retailers (ALMR)...
Roaring fires, hearty food, thriving trade…what exactly is it that makes a pub ‘heartwarming’? The PMA meets the licensees who have just won £20,000 for their dedication to the local community