Micropub
Couple set up micropub with Government-backed funds
A couple have set up the first micropub in the village of Whiston in Knowsley, Merseyside, though a Government-backed scheme.
Archives for December 13, 2016
Bar Talk
Bar talk: how do you encourage drivers not to drink alcohol?
This week's bar talk hones in on what operators offer to their customers who are driving rather than drinking alcohol.
Drink Driving
Budweiser's 'biggest ever' anti drink-drive campaign hailed a success
Budweiser’s ‘biggest ever’ responsible drinking campaign in partnership with Uber has so far been ‘well received’, according to AB InBev’s marketing director for the UK and Ireland.
Legal
Staying on the right side of the law this Christmas
The festive period will likely involve a police drink-drive campaign showing disturbing images and reinforcing the devastating effect that ‘just one more’ drink can have on families.
Food safety
Rare burger crippling health risk warning
A food safety watchdog has warned of the crippling health threats undercooked burgers can cause now that the category is in steep growth and as a result of more consumers specifying how their burgers should be cooked.
Retirement
Punch’s commercial director John Healy to retire next year
Punch’s commercial director is to step down next year after 30 years with the business.
Alcohol consumption
Brits spend two years of their lives hungover
Britons spend at least two years of their lives nursing hangovers, according to a new survey.
Legislation
‘Targeted by supermarkets’: Save the Pub Group could protect pubs under amended planning law
The Parliamentary Save the Pub Group has put forward an amendment to planning proposals that would give more protection to pubs.
CAMRA
2017 Predictions: CAMRA concerned at pub’s ‘high taxation’ levels
Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA) chairman Colin Valentine has expressed his concern over high taxation differentials between pubs and supermarkets.
APPBG
‘We can’t be complacent’: Graham Evans urges Government to help British pubs
The industry must unite in pressuring the Government to further reduce the level of beer duty, All-Party Parliamentary Beer Group (APPBG) chairman Graham Evans has urged.
Bar staff insider
Bar staff insider: the graveyard shift destroyers
It has been a graveyard shift. There has just been a big bank holiday weekend, the end of the month isn’t quite here yet and no one has been in the pub for the last two hours.
Sport
Illegal football supplier jailed for four years
The supplier of an illegal IPTV box has been jailed for four years in the first trial of its kind in the UK.
Sport
Dartcember pub quiz part 4 - Raymond van Barneveld
Ahead of the World Darts Championship, which will be shown live on Sky Sports from December 15, five of the world's leading darts players will be testing their wits against their fellow players in an exclusive pub quiz. Next to test his knowledge and...