Health & safety

Publican sentenced over fire safety breaches

04-Feb-2020 By Alice Leader

The owner of the Foresters Arms pub and hotel has been convicted after admitting serious breaches of fire safety law after its standards “fell far short”.

GK’s toilet signage to raise awareness of invisible disabilities

31-Jan-2020 By Alice Leader

Greene King is rolling out a new signs outside all accessible toilets across its estate from next month to raise awareness of those with invisible disabilities.

Missing ex-Royal Marine may have recently visited coastal pubs

30-Jan-2020 By Stuart Stone

Suffolk Police and those co-ordinating the search for missing 47-year-old Lee Fitzgerald have suggested he may have very recently frequented pubs along the Norfolk and Suffolk coastline.

How are pubs battling Australian bushfires?

21-Jan-2020 By Alice Leader

As the bushfires continue to wreak damage and destroy wildlife, native Australian animals need more help than ever spurring various pubs to do their charitable bit to help.

Licensee catches burglar red handed

21-Jan-2020 By Alice Leader

A licensee pinned a burglar to the floor after the intruder smashed through a window and began attacking a fruit machine with half a paving slab.

How can pubs look out for society’s most vulnerable?

17-Jan-2020 By Poppleston Allen

Nelson Mandela once said: “A nation should not be judged by how it treats its highest citizens, but its lowest ones,” and this principle could be applied to the late-night economy as well.

Stonegate on verge of winning Best New Wellbeing Strategy

15-Jan-2020 By Alice Leader

Stonegate Pub Company could be named Best New Wellbeing Strategy, due to its focus on improving staff and work culture.

Bar Facebook ad banned for promoting ‘binge drinking’

13-Jan-2020 By Alice Leader

An ‘irresponsible’ bar advert promoting customers to buy their own keg for the chance to have ‘50 cold pints available at your fingertips’ has been banned.

Pub shows community spirit during tyre yard blaze

13-Jan-2020 By Alice Leader

Pub staff have been praised for providing shelter and free refreshments to those evacuated from their homes after a fire broke out.

Stonegate bar has licence suspended over brawls

10-Jan-2020 By Alice Leader

A Stonegate bar has had its licence suspended after fights broke out on two occasions within four days of each other.

48-hour closure imposed on pub after Christmas violence

02-Jan-2020 By Alice Leader

A Welsh pub was forced to close over the new year period following incidences that resulted in injuries to police officers and members of the public.

Best Bar None National Awards shortlist revealed

20-Dec-2019 By Stuart Stone

A record number of regional schemes have been shortlisted for Best Bar None’s 2020 National Awards, the home office backed programme has announced.

How does the Licensed Trade Charity make a difference?

18-Dec-2019 By Nicholas Robinson

In March, Age UK revealed that there are 1.4m chronically lonely older people in England, and many more across the rest of the UK, with the Christmas period only serving to magnifying the issue.

Troublemakers can expect 13-month pub ban

16-Dec-2019 By Alice Leader

Cumbria Police are knuckling down on drink-fuelled trouble in pubs and clubs across Whitehaven by implementing a bar ban for troublesome customers, spanning both this Christmas and next.

How to overcome loneliness in the run-up to Christmas

13-Dec-2019 By Nicholas Robinson

More than nine million people in the UK say they are always or often lonely but almost two-thirds feel uncomfortable admitting to it, according to research by the British Red Cross and Co-Op.