Legislation

Successful pub slapped with £20k business rates hike

19-Mar-2019 By Nikkie Sutton

An award-winning gastropub has been hit with a 44% rise in its business rates from £45,000 per year to almost £65,000.

Spring Budget unlikely to help pubs much

13-Mar-2019 By Nicholas Robinson

Little of the Chancellor Philip Hammond’s Spring Budget will give respite to the pub trade, with leaders continuing to call for tax equality.

Publicans hit hurdle with bets at the bar

07-Mar-2019 By Robert Mann

In the build-up to the highly anticipated Cheltenham Festival next week (12 March), publicans are being warned it’s ‘odds-on’ that those operating as bookmakers without a licence will be caught.

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How did historic alehouses, taverns and inns evolve into the pubs we see today?

05-Mar-2019 By Phil Mellows

Getting together over a drink – or some other psychoactive substance – has played an important part in the social evolution of human beings for millennia

Businesses ‘need guidance on salary changes’

04-Mar-2019 By Emily Hawkins

Pub trade bodies have warned that proposals to change national minimum wage regulations on salaried workers must include clear guidance to businesses.

Hospitality managers work 7.5 hours a week unpaid

04-Mar-2019 By Emily Hawkins

Almost one in five hospitality and catering managers regularly work unpaid overtime, new figures from The Trades Union Congress (TUC) have revealed.

Netflix, dating apps and insolvencies blamed for 19% drop in 24-hour licensed venues

04-Mar-2019 By Stuart Stone

According to commercial law firm EMW, continued cultural change such as the rise of Netflix and dating apps, have created less demand for pubs.

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'Government takes pubs code very seriously' says Kelly Tolhurst MP

22-Feb-2019 By Stuart Stone

In an exclusive Q&A with The Morning Advertiser, Kelly Tolhurst MP discussed the early stages of her work overseeing the enforcement of the pubs code.

Lower business rates to save high-street pubs, recommend MPs

21-Feb-2019 By Emily Hawkins

A committee of MPs has recommended lower business rates for town-centre pubs, warning that without urgent action some high streets could eventually disappear altogether.

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Drugs in pubs: embrace testing or lose your licence

14-Feb-2019 By Robert Mann

The use of illegal substances in pubs is not a new problem, but it’s one that refuses to go away and one that continues to cause headaches for operators.

A group of publicans has united against the rates system

11-Feb-2019 By Emily Hawkins

Ahead of a parliamentary probe into the business rates system, The Morning Advertiser (MA) spoke to St Albans MP Anne Main about her work raising the concerns of the city’s publicans in Westminster.

Trade bodies demand halt to consultations until Brexit resolved

11-Feb-2019 By Emily Hawkins

Food industry chiefs have said the sector is beleaguered with no-deal Brexit uncertainty and urged consultations on other matters, including plastic use and a deposit return scheme, be put on hold.

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Putting the house in order

11-Feb-2019 By Poppleston Allen

Specialist licensing solicitors Poppleston Allen unravels legislative twists and turns affecting the pub trade in the past 225 years.

Pub rateable values increase ‘by up to 567%’

07-Feb-2019 By Stuart Stone

Ahead of a Commons debate on beer taxation, research has found that a large number of operators have borne the brunt of huge increases in rateable value following 2017 reform.

Steps tackling ‘wholly unacceptable’ booking site tactics welcomed

07-Feb-2019 By Stuart Stone

Six online hotel booking sites have all voluntarily agreed to make changes to their online conduct following a probe by the Competition & Markets Authority (CMA)