Jon Snow helps save pub
Channel 4 newsreader Jon Snow has saved his favourite pub from development after leading outraged locals into battle. Snow hailed it a "great day for...
Archives for October 9, 2008
Employment law: Dependants day
Since December 1999, employees have had a statutory right to take time off to deal with particular situations involving someone who depends on...
James Wilmore: This is now a big deal
It's nice to see the national media catching up again with an issue with the pub trade has been banging on about for ages. Supermarkets - the big...
Banks put squeeze on pub borrowers
Banks are beginning to turn the screw on pubs as the global economic crisis hits the high street. Business loans and charges for overdraft...
'Number of drink and drug abusers filling mental hospitals soars by a third'
The number of alcohol and drug abusers being treated by mental hospitals has leapt by almost a third in five years. Critics last night blamed the...
TV's Jon Snow helps save his local pub
TV newsreader Jon Snow has helped saved his favourite pub after leading outraged locals into battle.The Channel 4 newsman last night hailed it a...
Fears over Scots pub closures
More than 10 per cent of Scottish pubs, clubs and restaurants could have shut by the time the new Licensing Act takes effect next year, a trade group...
Minimum pricing: the thin end of the wedge?
In the government's attempts to tackle the problems around alcohol, one solution has provoked more reaction than most. Minimum pricing.A significant...
Pimm's gears up for second Christmas
For the second year running, Diageo is to market Pimm's Winter with a teapot serve as the trade approaches the Christmas period.Pubs are being...