Welcome back to the Morning Advertiser website after the Christmas and New Year break.

We're looking forward to reading your comments on the stories that matter this year – and also your ideas on how to improve business in what looks a challenging year.

One of the main aims of our web site has always been to help licensees share best practice with each other. This year, we want even more business tips and advice on how to run a pub successfully. Please do share freely with fellow trade members your experiences and what you have learnt from them. They will be very gratefully received.

However, please remember that we are interested in constructive postings. This site is not the place to blame companies or individuals for any problems you may be encountering. If you do have issues to resolve with your pub company, your supplier or any other companies or individuals, this is not the place.

As a reminder of the way we want this site to operate, please do refer again to the terms and conditions you agreed when you joined us.

Thanks and enjoy the Forums.

1176 user(s) have contributed to 2928 thread(s) and 33155 post(s).

The most popular (most viewed) thread created in recent 3 days has been 'Enterprise Inns can convert to a Reit'.

Overall, the most popular (most viewed) thread has been 'Scottish pubs suffer under ban'.

Most replies were made in the thread 'Scottish pubs suffer under ban'. This thread has received 68 replies.

Most replies were made to the posting 'RE: Pub crisis: 27 close each week'. This posting has received 6 replies.