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It’s back and it’s bigger and better than ever. Yes, it’s that time of year again, when judges close in on the category winners in The John Smith’s Great British Pub Awards – the highlight in the calendars of licensees up and down the land.
An annual survey of readers of The Morning Advertiser shows a sector struggling to keep up with the demands of a changing consumer base. Here we detail their concerns and look at what solutions are offered in MCA’s UK Pub Market Report.
Boatyard Gin has won two awards in the prestigious International Wine and Spirit Competition 2017.
Welsh brewery Tiny Rebel has announced it is temporarily halting all of its canned beer production after reports of lids popping off several batches.
A publisher of UK pub guides and maps from Liverpool has warned publicans a conman is ripping off licensees across the country by trading under his name.
More than 550 enquiries have been made to the pubs code adjudicator (PCA) in its first year with the overwhelming number of cases that have been accepted relating to the market-rent-only (MRO) option under which tied tenants can request to go free of tie.
A publican has “bookings coming out of her ears” for the festive season after putting up a fully-decorated Christmas tree – five months early.
Pests, thought to be maggots were discovered in nearby bins to a JD Wetherspoon (JDW) pub in Gloucestershire, forcing the kitchen to close temporarily.
A Buckinghamshire brewery is pioneering the use of new unnamed hops that can reportedly withstand pests and diseases.