03-Dec-2008 By Tony Halstead
Licensees are being caught out by new-style entrapment tactics employed by trading standards officers to target underage tobacco sales. Officers are...
27-Nov-2008 By The PMA Team
Pubs' performance can be split into three distinct groups, The PMA Team says.
Cigarette machine ban facing backlash
17-Nov-2008 By James Wilmore
Government plans to introduce a ban on cigarette vending machines in pubs are facing a major political backlash. The vending machine ban is among a...
British Gas Business chosen by Ofgem as E4B replacement supplier
30-Oct-2008 By The PMA Team
British Gas Business have asked us to publish the following statement in relation to E4B: Following E4B going into Administration, Ofgem, the gas...
Praise for pubs that ditch cigarette machines
23-Oct-2008 By Matt Eley Matt
Pubs are being urged to remove cigarette vending machines from their premises in a bid to stop youngsters smoking. A government consultation is...
'Mayor calls for cigarette vending machine ban'
20-Oct-2008
The elected mayor of Middlesbrough is calling for pubs in the town to get rid of cigarette vending machines. Ray Mallon believes the move would help...
29-Sep-2008 By Ewan Turney
Retailers have been reminded that new legislation requiring picture warnings on cigarette packets comes in to force on Wednesday 1 October. The 15...
14-Jul-2008 By Ewan Turney
But microbrewery BrewDog claim beer is for the connoisseurs and to be savoured - not drunk irresponsibly.
LGA calls for ban on cig machines
10-Jul-2008
Council leaders have backed Government calls for a total ban on coin-operated cigarette vending machines. It comes after a six-month test purchase...
30-Jun-2008 By Ewan Turney
Call comes after a 50% rise in test purchase failure rates
'Cigarette vending machines should be banned'
30-Jun-2008
Council leaders are calling for a total ban on coin-operated cigarette vending machines, after new figures showed that sales of cigarettes to...
A healthy sparkle
19-Jun-2008
Carbonated drinks already account for 81% of soft drinks volumes in pubs — and there's still room for expansion The carbonated soft drink reigns...
Tough proposals on cig machines
05-Jun-2008 By John Harrington john.harrington@william-reed.co.u
Electronic ID card to buy fags in pubs Tough measures to stop sales to children are proposed as an alternative to a ban on cigarette vending...
03-Jun-2008 By Ewan Turney
The Alcohol Health Alliance (AHA) has called for "strong action" on the price of alcohol
Health Secretary hints at action on supermarket deals
02-Jun-2008 By James Wilmore
Health Secretary Alan Johnson today confirmed the government is willing to take "mandatory action" against supermarkets that sell alcohol as a loss...
Cigarette vending machines to be outlawed
02-Jun-2008 By Matt Eley Matt
Cigarette vending machines could be banned from pubs in a wave of new measures aimed at stopping people smoking. Details of the government's The...
02-Jun-2008 By John Harrington
Tough measures to stop sales to children are proposed as an alternative to an outright ban on cigarette vending machines. This weekend the Government...
02-Jun-2008 By Ewan Turney
Vending machines face ban and sales could be forced under counter
09-May-2008 By Ewan Turney
Almost 60% of men think that health warnings on alcoholic drinks are a waste of time. Research from Mintel shows that only two in five men (40%)...
'Half an hour of passive smoking can harm health' - study
07-May-2008
Boffins from the University of California are claiming that even half an hour spent in a smoky room can be harmful to health.A study found that even...
Unite strives to improve dray safety
27-Mar-2008
Trade union Unite has called for the introduction of minimum safety standards for beer delivery workers. Unite has devised a six-point plan to...
04-Mar-2008 By Ewan Turney
Underage children in Cumbria managed to buy cigarettes from pub vending machines in 13 out of 13 tested venues in a sting operation. The pubs in...
Health secretary: 'Ban is good'
28-Feb-2008
Health Secretary Alan Johnson has labelled the smoking ban "highly successful" and said it will not create long-term economic problems for pubs....
'The kiss of death' if cigs banned outside
28-Feb-2008 By Ewan Turney ewan.turney@william-reed.co.uk
Barnsley could be the first town in Britain to ban smoking outside pubs. In a consultation document, Guidelines for Street Cafés, the South...
Former health secretary backs alcohol tax rise
25-Feb-2008
Former health secretary Patricia Hewitt has admitted she pleaded for higher alcohol duty at every budget. Hewitt, health secretary from 2005 to 2007...
Nick Yates: Health of Marathon runners weighed up by London Pride
19-Feb-2008
The results are in. The age old question of whether chefs or publicans have the more healthy cholesterol levels has once and for all been put to bed...
'Don't tell us that higher tax on drink is healthy'
07-Feb-2008
Fancy a drink? Get to the bar quickly because the price of a round is set to rocket. Around the taxpayer-subsidised watering Palace of Westminster,...
Two drinks a day can be healthy
09-Jan-2008
Two alcoholic drinks a day and a spot of light exercise can halve the risk of dying from heart disease. A study by Danish medics, published in the...
08-Jan-2008
Almost 80% of targeted pubs in Milton Keynes allowed children to buy cigarettes from vending machines
08-Jan-2008
Pub fag machines should be replaced by nicotine gum and patch dispensers to help people quit - that's the call from Manchester's smoking tsar....
Healthy debate
13-Dec-2007
Can pubs capitalise effectively on the rise of the health-conscious consumer? Noli Dinkovski reports from a special MA forum Living well and...
Village pubs' anger over cigarette machine ban
06-Dec-2007
Rural pubs have slammed new government plans which could see a blanket ban on cigarette vending machines. The proposals come as part of a five-year...
'Kids allowed to buy cigarettes in pubs'
02-Dec-2007
Pub landlords let kids as young as 14 buy cigarettes from vending machines, a shock People investigation has discovered. Staff at the Black Horse in...
13-Nov-2007 By Ewan Turney
Lobby group pushing for a tax increase on alcohol launched this morning
12-Nov-2007
The BBPA has posed five key questions to the Alcohol Health Alliance
BBPA sets challenge to new health alliance
10-Nov-2007
The British Beer & Pub Association (BBPA) has challenged a new health body set up to lobby for a hike in alcohol tax to answer five key...
Trade faces battle with health lobby over alcohol
07-Nov-2007 By James Wilmore
The pub industry has been urged to prepare itself for a major and lengthy battle with health lobby groups over the issue of alcohol. Speaking at the...
02-Nov-2007 By John Harrington
Pubs where under-18s buy cigarettes three times could be banned from selling tobacco for up a year
Pubs' ciggie sales threat
01-Nov-2007 By John Harrington john.harrington@william-reed.co.u
Pubs where under-18s buy cigarettes three times within two years could be banned from selling tobacco products for up to 12 months. But despite the...
BBPA queries health report
18-Oct-2007
The British Beer & Pub Association (BBPA) has hit back at claims that one glass of wine or a pint of beer a day for men - and even less for women...
11-Oct-2007
Health and safety rules mean wet T-shirt nights can only happen if no-one gets wet. Plans for a revival of the wild 80's style wet T-shirt nights at...
Pete Robinson: Discarded fag ends? What a load of rubbish!
07-Aug-2007
A survey last year by the Tidy Britain Group claimed that '80 per cent' of town centres were already blighted by cigarette litter. Now the Local...
Scottish health initiative criticised
16-May-2007
Scottish health activists have slammed a voluntary approach by the drinks trade to promote responsible drinking.Senior medical figures and academics...
Gas firm in safety crusade
10-May-2007
Gas supplier BOC Sureserve has launched a campaign to raise awareness of gas safety at 400 Punch pubs. The pubs - located in Wales, Somerset and the...
09-May-2007 By Iain O'Neil
Local authorities preparing for 25 tonnes of extra cigarette rubbish each day as a result of the smoking bans
The only healthy liver in the village?
03-May-2007
Channel 4's Dispatches this week set up a liver-testing clinic at Westminster and asked 200 MPs who signed the Early Day Motion about supermarket...
Three quarters of unclaimed gas cylinders unsafe, say experts
17-Apr-2007 By Gareth Iacobucci
Up to three quarters of gas cylinders left unclaimed in pubs would fail safety tests, says a leading gas company. BOC Sureserve is warning licensees...
Alcohol highlighted as top risk to health
05-Apr-2007
ALCOHOL HAS been highlighted as one of the top five 'greatest risks' to health. The five national priorities set for health enforcement in local...
Peer calls for labels to help child health
15-Feb-2007 By Ewan Turney ewan.turney@william-reed.co.uk
A Labour Peer has called for all cans and bottles of alcohol to carry health warnings aimed at pregnant women. At the end of January, Lord Mitchell...
Pinstripe: Shooting, rugby and cigarettes
02-Feb-2007
I know it's only anecdotally arrived at but I reckon when it comes to industry 'R&R', half the sector and their business acquaintances love...
