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Mitchells & Butlers and Help for Heroes give food discount for Armed Forces

02-Jun-2015 By Daniel Woolfson

Mitchells & Butlers chains Crown Carveries, Sizzling Pubs and O’Neills have announced the launch of new charity initiatives for British Armed Forces members.

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How to make £50k in drinks sales

24-Apr-2015 By Michelle Perrett

How the Cape of Good Hope delivered a winning formula.

Stonegate offers employees generous discounts with new reward card

17-Feb-2014 By John Harrington

Stonegate, the managed pub operator, is offering every member of staff 25% off all purchases at the company’s venues under a new employee reward card introduced this month.

Mark Daniels: What they give with one hand, they take away with the other...

25-Nov-2008

If you watched Soccer AM on Saturday morning you will have seen Paul Daniels, making a couple of lewd jokes that made Helen Chamberlain blush,...

Pack for sale to suit aspiring pub player

10-May-2007 By Joe Lutrario joe.lutrario@william-reed.co.uk

A highly-unusual property is up for sale in Combe Martin, on the north Devon coast. The Pack o' Cards Inn was designed around the theme of a pack of...

Gambling for pleasure

09-May-2007

IF PLAYING poker involves a fine balance of skill and chance, it seems that pubs hosting it are in a similarly precarious game with much at...

Gambling and a lack of knowledge

22-Jun-2006 By Peter Coulson

When it comes to card games for cash in pubs, there's a distinct lack of knowledge. Perhaps the reason for this is that in many areas the local...

Brum shows drunken yobs yellow card'

09-Jun-2005

Birmingham has become the latest area of the country to issue football-style "yellow card" warnings to drunken yobs. Fourteen yellow cards were...

Play your cards right

30-Sep-2004

When it comes to card games for cash in pubs, there's a distinct lack of knowledge. Perhaps the reason for this is that in many areas the local licensing justices, who previously had power to control gaming on licensed premises, had not made any...

Ale House host is so card sharp at boosting custom

12-Dec-2002

The Porter's Ale House in Macclesfield, Cheshire, has boosted its trade with a unique promotion linked to the town's rugby union football club....