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People
Author Laura Thompson has launched a crowdfunding campaign to fund a book telling the story of her grandmother, the first woman to be given a publican’s licence in her own name.
A pubco and three of its employees have been ordered to pay a record total of more than £120,000 for broadcasting Sky Sports illegally in three pubs.
Openings
Southwark council have given the green light to Fuller’s plans to renovate former live music venue the Half Moon in Herne Hill, south-east London.
Legislation
The issue of disabled access in pubs hit the headlines again recently in a damning House of Lords report that found many pubs are still failing to provide up-to-scratch facilities for people with physical and mental disabilities, with even basic services...
Concerned licensees have hit back against a House of Lords report which argued that pubs breaching the Equality Act by not providing facilities for disabled people should be refused a licence or be shut down.