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Statutory Code: MPs respond to family brewers concerns

05-Aug-2013 By Michelle Perrett

All-Party Parliamentary Save the Pub Group (APPSTPG) has written to the Independent Family Brewers of Britain (IFBB) to reassure them over the plans for a Statutory Code.

Fair Deal for Your Local to hold Save the Pub Rally in Westminster

29-May-2013 By Michelle Perrett

Fair Deal for Your Local is to hold a Save the Pub Rally in Westminster next Wednesday (5 June) to send a message to MPs and to the Government over the pubco-tenant relationship.

Mulholland re-elected as chair of Save the Pub Group

19-Mar-2012 By Michelle Perrett

Greg Mulholland has been re-elected as Chair of the All-Party Save the Pub Group Group at its AGM last week.  Grahame Morris MP was also elected as a vice chair.

Tuppen under fire over BISC remarks

17-Nov-2011 By Adam Pescod

Enterprise Inns chief executive Ted Tuppen has come under fire over comments he made about the Business, Innovation & Skills Committee’s (BISC’s) recent report into the relationship between pubcos and tenants.

MP accuses pubcos of 'misleading'

06-Jul-2011 By Michelle Perrett

Pubcos were accused of misleading tenants by a leading MP sitting on the committee investigating the beer tie. Brian Binley is the only MP to have...

MPs give boost to smoking campaign

22-Oct-2010 By John Harrington

A Tory MP is using the weight of MPs' support for relaxing the smoking ban to lobby the Government to look again. A total of 86 MPs voted in favour...

LVA lobbies MPs on smoke ban relaxation

07-Oct-2010 By John Harrington

A Sussex-based trade body has written to three local MPs urging them to back a bid to relax the smoking ban. The 1066 LVA, based in Hastings, is...

'Boozed-up kids are hospital bed blockers'

15-Jun-2010 By Matt Eley Matt

Boozy kids as young as 10 are blocking hospital beds after being admitted for alcohol problems. The number of under-16s arriving drunk at accident...

Batham & Son toasts first XI

17-Apr-2008

Snifter is pleased to report that at a time of closures and administrations all is not doom and gloom for one brewery. Swimming against the tide is...