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Hot drinks
The temperature is dipping, collars are being turned up and customers are looking for something to warm the cockles of the hearts. The answer, says Noli Dinkovski, is a diverse coffee offer that is adaptable to the seasons.
Beer
Purity celebrates growth - and states new beer likely for 2016.
Events
With the search now on for the industry’s best pub companies in the 25th Publican Awards, the PMA looks at why you don’t want to miss out on being part of it.
Food safety
Six new food safety qualifications to help food businesses prepare safe and legal meals have been launched by the British Safety Council.
Property
This week's property done deals includes pubs in Warwickshire, Lincolnshire and the West Midlands.
Property
Refurbishment of a pub kitchen requires careful thought, planning and execution, with a variety of factors to take into account. Here are 10 top tips for your consideration.
Beer
Shepherd Neame is launching a bottled dark lager variant from Japanese lager brand Asahi, which it currently brews under licence in the UK.
A Cambridge publican has been awarded £25,000 in compensation after being sprayed with a form of pepper spray and being physically removed from his pub.
Marston’s will have to choose the sites of its 20 new food pubs carefully to avoid the pinch of the saturation in the eating out sector, which has already forced menu prices down in high street pubs, a City analyst has warned.
Beer
Roger Protz takes a look at the likely repercussions of AB InBev’s takeover of SABMiller — a move that will see one third of world beer production in the hands of one company.
Pubwatch
Pubwatch is ramping up support for licensees with a street pastor scheme and an online platform to ban customers and share key information.
Enterprise Inns has strengthened its ties to The Royal British Legion with the launch of a new beer, Poppy, which will help raise funds for the Armed Forces charity.
E-cigarette debate
Swansea Council is facing criticism for asking if e-cigarettes should be banned in outside public spaces in a consultation which could impact pub gardens.
FOOD AND BEER PAIRING
Operators should consider creating vegetable-based beer pairings as sourcing, quality and preparation of vegetables become even more of a focus on menus in 2016, Brewers Association executive chef Adam Dulye has claimed.
The trade has given George Osborne’s shake-up of business rates a cautious welcome, despite some fears that squeezed councils will use pubs as ‘cash cows’ to generate extra income.
Advice
This week's legal Q&A focuses on how licence breaches could bring closure, and rules on pavement furniture.
Drinks
Autumn is well and truly on us, Christmas is fast approaching and the need to plan ahead for something warm and comforting to pull punters in to pubs needs to be addressed. Well fear not, says Nigel Huddleston, you need look no further than mulled wine...
Technology
The Review Performance report offers new data to help registered businesses on TripAdvisor.
Survey
PMA readers are in with the chance to win John Lewis vouchers, or cases of the new limited edition J2O Midnight Amber, courtesy of Britvic, simply by filling out a short online survey.
Two Michelin-starred chef Tom Kerridge, of the Hand & Flowers in Marlow, Buckinghamshire, has revealed his top tips for winning at next year’s Estrella Damm Top 50 Gastropubs Awards.
Publican Awards
Check out our top tips to entering the Publican Awards 2016, which are now open for entries.
A controversial scheme to demolish two pubs has been given the go ahead despite over a hundred objections.
The secrets to making the perfect steak have been revealed to the Publican’s Morning Advertiser by top chefs, suppliers and even Steak (R)evolution film director Franck Ribière.