New Alcohol Strategy

Greater Manchester to review licensing powers under new alcohol strategy

29-Aug-2014 By Ellie Bothwell

Councils, health services, and police in Greater Manchester have officially teamed up to tackle alcohol abuse under a new strategy that includes the review of licensing powers.

Manchester proposes licensing powers review to reduce £1.2bn alcohol bill

22-Aug-2014 By Ellie Bothwell

Pubs in Greater Manchester could face a crackdown on licensing from police and councils, following a new report that reveals excessive drinking costs the region £1.2bn each year.

The anti-pub charter

28-Mar-2012 By Gerry Price

‘I have no further changes to make to the duty rates set out by my predecessor.’ So once again, for just a few hours, George Osborne had the public thinking that duty on alcohol hasn’t gone up when it has actually gone up by over the rate of inflation,...

DoH starts talking strategy

22-Jul-2011 By Michelle Perrett

The Department of Health (DoH) is conducting meetings with the industry to discuss the development of a new Alcohol Strategy.

Focusing on less, but better

14-Jun-2007

The headlines this last week have made pretty depressing reading for anyone who likes alcohol, or who likes selling it. Media reactions to the...

Off-trade is focus for new alcohol strategy

07-Jun-2007 By John Harrington john.harrington@william-reed.co.u

Review promised into links between alcohol price and harm Trade leaders have welcomed the Government's new alcohol strategy as recognition that pubs...

Andrew Pring asks for a penny for your thoughts

24-May-2007 By Andrew Pring

In a week when the Government announces its new alcohol strategy, it seems strangely perverse to write about public access to pub toilets. But for...

Last chance to get it right

18-Mar-2004

If ever the phrase "drinking in the Last Chance saloon" really meant something, then it does for the trade today. The Government, in its new Alcohol...