IPPR: 'policymakers must recognise pubs’ social value'
The social value of pubs is often overlooked by policymakers because official statistics only capture their financial benefits, according to the Institute of Public Policy Research (IPPR).
Archives for February 2, 2012
The truth about alcohol-related hospital admissions
For too long the licensed retail sector has been on the defensive, engaged in anxious hand-wringing when confronted by the remorselessly grim alcohol-harm numbers generated by the health lobby.
NatWest deal for Greene King licensees
NatWest is offering preferential borrowing rates to Greene King’s (GK’s) Meet & Eat pub franchisees under a deal to make the bank its official funding partner for the franchise brand.
Experience key to survival
I’d rather be running a pub than a shoe shop right now. And that’s not just because the idea of handling people’s feet all day turns my stomach.
Government to revise hospital admission stats
Extreme figures on alcohol-related hospital admissions could be a thing of the past as the Government is to revise how it classifies such cases.
BIS 'taking the biscuit' with new PICAS chairman
Pro-pubs MP Greg Mulholland has slammed the appointment of Rodger Vickers as chairman of the newly-formed Pub Independent Conciliation Advisory Service (PICAS).