MA’s review of the Week
‘We can see the light and want to make a plan – but need detail’
The Morning Advertiser's Ed Bedington speaks with Clubhouse Bars director Iain Pert to reflect on some of the week's biggest headlines.
Further reading:
- Review alcohol rules and curfews, Scottish Government urged - Pubs in Scotland have been served a “bitter blow” after it was announced they can reopen from the end of April but cannot serve alcohol indoors.
- Scottish pubs can reopen outdoors from 26 April - Scottish pubs will begin to reopen from Monday 26 April, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has announced.
- Allow all Scottish pubs to serve alcohol after lockdown, sector urges - Scottish trade associations have called on the Government to change its levels system for hospitality and allow all pubs to serve alcohol.
- Scottish Government evidence for pub shutdown 'deeply unconvincing' - The Scottish Government has failed to provide any specific evidence to justify the restrictions it imposed on the hospitality sector when pressed, according to one trade body.
- Westminster Government ‘shown up by Holyrood’ on rates relief - English pubs were granted a three month full extension of the business rates holiday while Scotland and Wales will see a year-long extension.
- Scottish pubs left with ‘more questions than answers’ on reopening - Scottish pub operators and trade groups have said they still feel left in the dark by the Scottish Government’s announcement about when pubs can be expected to reopen.
- In numbers: 12 months since Boris Johnson told pubs to close - With 20 March marking a year-to-the-day since last orders were called in pubs just days before a first national lockdown, The Morning Advertiser looks back on some of the defining data from the past 12 months.
- LIVE: 'No change to the next steps of the roadmap' - The Morning Advertiser will bring you the latest updates and reactions to lockdown news impacting the pub sector.
- Pub companies review late-night working practices following Sarah Everard's death - While the Government has outlined a controversial pilot scheme to send plain-clothed officers into pubs and clubs, recent events have compelled a number of hospitality firms to review late shift practices on the other side of the bar.
- Post-lockdown profits hidden in cocktails - It was the rising star of the on-trade outside of specialist bars, yet cocktails in pubs understandably took a bashing during and after the first coronavirus lockdown. But forget the category at your peril, because the money generated by cocktails prior to the pandemic is not to be sniffed at.
