All news articles for February 2018

Trophy time: Arsene Wenger can secure the League Cup for the first time this Sunday with a win against Manchester City

Carabao and Calcutta cups up for grabs this weekend

By Stuart Stone

Both Carabao and Calcutta cups will be contested this weekend while Britain’s largest ever contingent of winter Olympians challenge for medals in the last two days of the Pyeongchang games.

Kit free: host of regular life drawing classes, the Bristol pub and its regulars are no strangers to nudity

Award-winning gastropub to host naked dining night

By Stuart Stone

The Greenbank community pub in Bristol, winner of the city’s gastropub of the year award, is encouraging diners to get their kit off for the pub's first ever naked dining event on 20 March.


Tailor-made: Mayfair's Running Horse pub underwent a major transformation to provide the backdrop for a London Fashion Week show.

Pub gets metallic makeover for London Fashion Week

By Stuart Stone

The Running Horse pub, in Mayfair, in London's West End, closed for three days so that it could be transformed into a tin-foil covered backdrop for a London Fashion Week installation.

New power: the ALMR's Kate Nicholls will head UKHospitality

New ‘powerful voice’ vows to fight for pub rights

By Nicholas Robinson

New trade organisation UKHospitality, a fusion of the ALMR and BHA, has promised to fight hard for the £130bn hospitality sector after members voted in favour of its creation yesterday (21 February).

Figure drop: packaged cider value also fell by 5.3%

Packaged cider volumes flop

By Nikkie Sutton

Operators should widen their draught cider offer after volume sales of packaged cider saw a fall of 9.3% since last year, new figures have revealed.

Craft credentials: Fuller’s announces Dark Star take over

Fuller’s announces Dark Star take over

By Mark Wingett, MCA

Fuller’s is set to enhance its craft beer credentials after acquiring West Sussex-based Dark Star Brewing for an undisclosed sum, The Morning Advertiser’s sister title MCA has learned.

Taken off: JD Wetherspoon removed gammon, rump and and sirloin steaks from its menus (Russell Hume steaks not pictured)

JDW meat supplier ‘heartbroken’ to go into administration

By Nikkie Sutton

The meat supplier that supplied JD Wetherspoon is being investigated by the Food Standards Agency has gone into administration and has blamed the watchdog, claiming its action was “out of proportion to concerns identified”.

Pub careers: realising the dream can happen in a slightly different way

Pub Skills: HR Summit

Fight staff shortages with in-house career development

By Claire Churchard

The chief executive and co-founder of the fast-growing Brewhouse & Kitchen brew pub group has said the answer to skills shortages in the pub sector is to develop the careers of your own people.

Pretty crap: Pub toilets are only slightly better than train toilets, according to a new survey

Pub toilets get piss poor rating

By Georgina Townshend

Pubs, bars and nightclubs are seen as some of the "worst offenders for poor quality toilet facilities", with only train toilets seen as worse, according to a survey of 2,000 people.

'Inappropriate clues': CAMRA apologises for any offence caused by the publication of the crossword

CAMRA slammed for ‘racist’ crossword

By Nikkie Sutton

The Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA) has apologised after it was criticised on social media for the language used in one of its branch's publications.

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