Convenience Store

Pub is the Hub showcases Cornish community pubs to MPs

04-Jun-2018 By Claire Churchard

Pub is the Hub showcased the work of pubs that are diversifying their offer in Cornwall by inviting MPs Mike Wood and Steve Double to see how it supports pubs in providing community services in rural and remote parts of the country.

Celebrity’s historic research could save inter-war pub from demolition

31-Aug-2017 By Fred A'Court

A 1930s Somerset pub that has been closed since last year is being considered for Grade II listing following last-minute research by campaigners and the parish council that could save it from demolition.

Property

Is it a pub or a post office? The rise of the multi-purpose community hub

27-Jan-2016 By Ben Winstanley

With the number of village shops and post offices dwindling across the country, communities are in danger of losing their local amenities. Is it time that pubs took over the mantle? Ben Winstanley talks to forerunning licensees about their multi-purpose...

Marston's

'Disappointment' for locals determined to prevent pub from becoming convenience store

28-Aug-2015 By Emily Sutherland

Campaigners fighting to save the Seven Stars in Sedgley have described a meeting with Marston’s CEO Ralph Findlay as ‘disappointing.’

ACV action urged on New River Retail pubs

17-Feb-2015 By Ellie Bothwell

Pub campaigners are urging locals to list the pubs obtained by New River Retail from Marston’s as assets of community value (ACVs), after the property company offered to give money to licensees that agree to co-operate with plans to build convenience...

CAMRA says 600 ACV-listed pubs landmark is 'bittersweet'

10-Dec-2014 By Ellie Bothwell

The Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA) has announced that 600 pubs are now listed as assets of community value (ACV), following the organisation’s List Your Local initiative.

Enterprise to roll out online ordering

29-Aug-2014 By Mark Wingett, M&C Report

A new online ordering platform is set to be rolled out across Enterprise Inns’ 5,500-strong pub estate from 1 September, following successful trials and positive feedback from licensees.

Back to Basics: Retail inspiration

05-Oct-2007

Where is the hub of your local community? Increasingly, research shows, it is the convenience store. People are visiting the local shop, with its...

Pubs open shops with rural funding

19-Jul-2007 By Tony Halstead THals22851@aol.com

Residents in three far-flung villages have been thrown a vital shopping lifeline, thanks to the trade's rural regeneration group Pub is the Hub....

Nuns and pub in hours compromise

01-Sep-2005

A group of nuns has reached an uneasy compromise with Greene King over new opening hours for an Oxford pub. The nuns from the John Henry Newman...

For many UK pubs food sales equate to something served on a

24-Apr-2003

Most customers already perceive that crisps, nuts and the like are not too expensive, but the sale of a few packets of snacks added to a round of...