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BRIGHTON DYKE CLOSURE
A Brighton pub that was closed and turned into a furniture shop has been listed as an Asset of Community Value (ACV) after campaigners mobilised to save it from potential development.
Pubs code
The first figures released by pubs code adjudicator (PCA), Paul Newby, show that his office received 79 requests for arbitration in just the first four months of the pubs code being law.
Designated driver
Are brewers finally managing to create no and low-alcohol beers that are genuinely palatable, rather than the curate’s egg we have endured for so many years before?
Designated Driver
This month, the on-trade will witness the highest sales of alcohol compared with the rest of the year. Can soft drinks equal the likes of beer, spirits and Champagne, or are they likely to wane during the festive cheer? Sara Hussein and Jane Peyton report
Designated Driver
No one bats an eyelid when wines are paired with specific dishes, and it should be no different with soft drinks. Andrew Don reports
Designated Driver
Well it’s been quite a year, with Leicester City winning the Premier League, Trump’s election, the Referendum and the biggest upset of all, Danny Baker being the first out of the jungle.
Designated Driver
The festivities around Christmas are always tempered by warnings about the dangers of drinking and driving, and the mayhem it can cause to the lives of victims and perpetrators alike. But there is an underlying message of hope behind the grim stats – the...
Designated Driver
Designated drivers amongst a group of Christmas revellers can boost the dwell time of the whole party as well as their spend, here we explore how to give the drivers just as good a time as the drinkers.
Soft Drinks Tax
The Government has revealed the extent of costs pubs could be forced to pass on to their customers created by the upcoming sugar tax.
Designated Driver
From the long-running Designated Driver campaign to the sugar levy proposal, Rob Harris has plenty on his plate as the ‘new boy’ at Coca-Cola European Partners
Property
In December 2014, the last pub in the Suffolk village of Somersham closed its doors. Less than two years later, the pub has been bought by the local community and is on the verge of reopening. Here’s the story of the Duke of Marlborough.
Designated Driver
They may have endured snide remarks and sidelong glances in the past, but low and no-ABV beers are enjoying a renaissance on the back of the current trend towards healthier living Nikkie Sutton and Jane Peyton report
CAMRA
A London Assembly member is to be given the Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA) John Young Memorial Award this week.
ONLINE REVIEWS
A licensee has told of his outrage after a customer who was refused a refund left a negative review claiming to have come down with food poisoning in retaliation.
Charity
A Draycott licensee has taken his kit off with another member of staff and customers in a bid to raise money for Cancer Research UK.
Designated Driver
Christmas may be a time for groups of revellers to let their hair down and party like there’s no tomorrow, but it also a time for licensees and pub operators to face up to their responsibilities and reward the designated drivers in those parties with...
Designated Driver
Rab Ha’s is named after a 19th-century lover of great food and drink. Manager Karen Pringle talks about how the site now aims to deliver great food and drink for the 21st century
Breaking
Molson Coors has promoted its former European chief supply chain officer Phil Whitehead to managing director of its UK and Ireland businesses, The Morning Advertiser can exclusively reveal.
Stonegate
Stonegate Pub Company is set to acquire Walkabout brand owner Intertain for an undisclosed sum.
Awards
The Morning Advertiser (MA) team was celebrating this week after The Publican Awards scooped a top prize.
Designated Driver
Since taking on Dorset pub the New Queen Inn in early 2016, licensee Will Everingham and his wife, Lorraine, have put their own stamp on the site by developing both its interior and its soft-drink offer
Health
Government will look at whether minimum unit pricing and a reduction in the drink-drive limit in England will help tackle drink-related crimes and health problems, despite rejecting similar plans in 2013.
Designated Driver
Scotland’s lower drink drive limits have had a profound effect on the pub trade, leaving a significant amount of sites with a decline in trade. Has this led to a crisis or opened up opportunities for change? Phil Mellows reports