British People

Fuller's chief executive: 'the great British pub will outlive us all'

20-Dec-2017 By Georgina Townshend

In an interview with The Morning Advertiser, Simon Emeny, chief executive of Fuller Smith & Turner plc and the new British Beer and Pub Association (BBPA) chairman, spoke about his main concerns for the pub industry in 2018, offered advice to licensees...

Estrella Damm Top 50 Gastropubs

Inside Michelin-starred the Pony & Trap

12-Oct-2017 By Nicholas Robinson

The great British pub has had to continually evolve over the years in order to survive and nowhere is there a more apparent example of that than at the Pony & Trap, a West Country icon of a Michelin-starred gastropub .

Majority of diners happy to be served food on slates and wooden boards

22-Aug-2017 By James Beeson

It is the question that has long divided a nation of food lovers, and the source of many an argument on social media. Is serving food in pubs and restaurants on anything other than a good old-fashioned plate acceptable?

Pub helps provide villagers with superfast broadband

27-Jun-2017 By Fred A'Court

The current holder of The Morning Advertiser-organised Great British Pub of the Year Award is set to become the 'hub' of its village.

North-west boasts most award-winning pubs in UK

17-May-2017 By MA Editorial

North-west pubs are officially the best in the country compared to any other region, if awards are anything to go by.

GBPA: inspiration from three 2016 winners

02-May-2017 By MA Editorial

Thinking about entering the Great British Pub Awards this year? We've spoken to a selection from last year’s title winners to find out how the awards have boosted business.

Great British Pub Awards 2016

Pub Awards: Party pictures gallery

06-Oct-2016 By Oli Gross

Party pictures from the 2016 Great British Pub Awards

Great British Pub Awards 2016

Pub Awards: Winners' gallery

06-Oct-2016 By Nikkie Sutton

All of the winners from this year's Great British Pub Awards.

Great British Pub Awards 2016

Pub Awards: Video interviews with this year's winners

06-Oct-2016 By Liam Coleman

We spoke to a selection of the winners at the Great British Pub Awards just after their moment of glory.

Great British Pub Awards

Pub Awards: Best Family Pub shortlist

08-Sep-2016 By MA

The list of finalists for this year's Great British Pub Awards 2016, Best Family Pub.

gastropubs

Closure: Great British Menu winner to shut award-winning Hampshire gastropub

15-Dec-2015 By Daniel Woolfson

Acclaimed chef James Durrant has announced he plans to close his Hampshire gastropub the Plough Inn, Longparish.

Eight finalists announced for Parliamentary Pub Chef Awards

14-Dec-2015 By Daniel Woolfson

Eight UK pub chefs have been named as finalists in the British Beer & Pub Association (BBPA) and All-Party Parliamentary Beer Group’s Parliamentary Pub Chef awards.

Pub devastated in blaze set to reopen

03-Nov-2015 By Daniel Woolfson

A Suffolk pub that was severely damaged in a fire earlier this year is set to reopen in late November.

Video: The Great British Pub Awards

11-Sep-2015 By PMA

Interviews with some of our award-winning licensees at the Great British Pub Awards 2015.

Hail to the chef

VIDEO: Mark Anderson of the Ruddington Arms

04-Sep-2015 By Daniel Woolfson

On the Great British pub and making it as a chef patron...

VIDEO: Sky Great British Pub of the Year 2014 - The Grafton, Kentish Town

23-Sep-2014 By James Evison

The Publican's Morning Advertiser caught up with the winners of the Great British Pub of the Year to find out what they thought of winning, and how they developed the Grafton in Kentish Town into an award-winning pub.

PHOTOS: Great British Pub Awards 2014 - the winners

12-Sep-2014 By James Evison

Check out our gallery of winners from the Great British Pub Awards 2014, held at London's Park Lane Hilton on 11 September 2014.

Are you Britain's friendliest business?

18-Dec-2013 By Lewis Brown

Pubs, restaurants and other UK businesses are being encouraged to enter a competition to be in with the chance of winning the title of ‘Britain’s Friendliest Business’.

New head of Star Pubs & Bars announced

19-Feb-2013 By John Harrington

Star Pubs & Bars, the Heineken-owned leased pub operator, has announced changes to its management team, with commercial director Chris Jowsey taking on the role of trading director.

Lost Society team to open fifth site

16-Sep-2011 By Mark Wingett, M&C Report

The team behind the London-base bar and restaurant sites Lost Society and Blind Tiger are set to open a fifth site in the capital, after acquiring the leasehold interest of a site in St John’s Hill.

The nouvelle hell of the gastropub

29-Jul-2010 By Tony Jennings

Budvar's Tony Jennings hails the rise and rise of the gastropub — but wishes the concept could be renamed.

Save the pub single released

16-Jun-2010 By Ewan Turney

The charity single released to help raise funds to save the Great British pub has now been officially released. British born country singer and...

Mulholland: game is up for pubcos

19-Mar-2010 By Ewan Turney

The game is up for "unscrupulous pubcos", Save the Pub Group chair Greg Mulholland has warned. The pro-pub Lib Dem MP has worked tirelessly for a...

Union backs licensees' march on Parliament

17-Apr-2009 By Ewan Turney

Trade union Unite has thrown its full weight of support behind Inez Ward's Justice for Licensees campaign — including backing a protest march on...

Chefs compete to make Britain's best shepherd's pie

20-Jan-2009 By Claire Elliott

Major International launched a national competition at Hospitality, NEC yesterday to find Britain's best shepherd's pie. In conjunction with the...

Pubs mobilise to fight the hikes

15-Apr-2008 By Ewan Turney

Licensees are mobilising to force a rethink on massive alcohol duty rises

Six Continents boss blames Government for demise of UK pub

27-Nov-2001

Six Continents chairman Sir Ian Prosser has blamed Government intervention for the shift of his company from brewing into hotels.And he has warned...

Survey shows Britons favour further smoking restrictions

27-Sep-2001

More than half of British people would like to see smoking restrictions in all pubs, according to a survey by the Government's Office for National...