Health groups say Scots smoke ban a success
Two new surveys by health campaigners say the Scottish smoking ban has attracted new punters to pubs but trade chiefs are not so sure. NEW COMMENT
Archives for June 25, 2006
Legal advice: Prepare to repair
If you are a tenant whose lease is coming to an end you are fairly certain to receive a notice from your landlord a few months before the lease...
Legal advice: Problems with holidays and holiday pay
It appears that summertime is at last with us, and no doubt people will soon be off on their holidays.For several years there have been statutory...
Comment: Legislation is needed to save local beers and brewers
In 1989 the UK's independent brewing community breathed a sigh of relief as the Beer Orders finally broke the stranglehold of the national brewers...
City Comment: Hamish Champ
"A disaster." The assessment, put to me by the chief executive of a regional family brewer last week, of the agreed takeover of Hardys & Hansons...
Age discrimination - the new laws
So you've no problems with race discrimination or sex discrimination. Black or white, man or woman, it doesn't stop them being a good worker behind...
'Top' Chef blasts pub food
Marcus Wareing, of Michelin-starred restaurant Petrus, has said that airline food is better the what is served up in most of Britain's pubs. Wareing...