'Russell Crowe's big tip for pub'

Russell Crowe has become a local hero in West Wales after leaving staff in a country pub a £600 tip. The New Zealand-born actor is filming Ridley Scott's new Robin Hood movie on the Pembrokeshire Coast, and popped into the Carew Inn, near Tenby, with nine fellow cast members for a feast of mussels and chicken. After enjoying the meal Crowe paid the £240 bill and then added in the huge tip - Daily Express ​

Questions were mounting over the future of Globe Pub Company after it reported another quarter of widening losses.The company, owned by Robert Tchenguiz, the property entrepreneur, has been in default of its securitisation covenants for the past two financial quarters. Yesterday, the company warned there was little sign that a recovery was on the horizon - Financial Times​

A new book has lifted the lid on some of the most historic pubs in Scotland. Raising the Bar, compiled by the Campaign for Real Ale (Camra) and Historic Scotland, charts the different styles and types of traditional pubs - The Scotsman​

Antony Worrall Thompson, the celebrity chef, is spearheading a campaign to overturn the ban on smoking in British pubs. Mr Worrall Thompson is one of 19 signatories to a letter in today's Daily Telegraph calling for the ban to be relaxed The Ready-Steady-Cook star and restaurateur is leading the Save Our Pubs & Clubs campaign calling for changes to the blanket ban which came into force in 2007 - The Daily Telegraph​