County Borough

Hickory's financial year turnover up 15% to £16.6m

31-Jan-2018 By MCA Editorial

Hickory’s, the Piper-backed smokehouse operator, grew turnover 15% to £16.6m in the year to 30 April.

Revealed: the worst areas for pub food hygiene

13-Feb-2017 By Daniel Woolfson

Four London boroughs have been named and shamed as having some of the worst pub food hygiene standards in the country. 

HEALTH & SAFETY

Enterprise fined £95k after pub’s employee “seriously injured” in gas stove accident

31-Aug-2016 By Daniel Woolfson

Enterprise Inns has been fined £95,000 after a member of staff at one of the company’s tenanted pubs suffered burns from a gas-fired cooking range. 

'Tube map' for pubs is proving a winner

27-May-2014 By James Wallin

A company is putting pubs on the map with its range of tube-style guides to local boozers.

Robert Humphreys replaces Philip Kolvin as head of Best Bar None

18-Mar-2014 By James Wallin

Philip Kolvin has stepped down from his role as chairman of the Best Bar None scheme.

Northampton pubs face possible EMRO

04-Feb-2013 By Adam Pescod

Northampton Borough Council is to consider whether an early morning restriction order (EMRO) could help tackle the “problems associated with late night drinking” in the town.

Former Farlane pubs up for grabs

21-Mar-2012 By Gurjit Degun

Eight freehold sites from former pub owner Farlane Property Group are set to go under the hammer at the end of the month at an Allsop auction in London.

500 MPs on Enterprise’s ‘work a shift’ list

21-Oct-2011 By Michelle Perrett

Enterprise Inns has written to more than 500 MPs, asking them to support an initiative to get them to work a shift in their local.

Rochdale rolls out Food Hygiene system

06-Jul-2011 By Lesley Foottit

Rochdale Metropolitan Borough Council has rolled out the Food Hygiene Rating System, following more than 150 local authorities in England. The Food...

Wirral asks residents if they want minimum price

01-Dec-2010 By Gurjit Degun

Wirral council is asking residents whether minimum pricing on alcohol should be implemented in the borough. The council explained that it is looking...

Super casino plans scrapped

27-Feb-2008 By Ewan Turney

Plans for super casino in Manchester ditched but 16 smaller venues given go-ahead

Winners celebrate awards glory

15-Dec-2005

list of competition winners

Licensing policies reveal mixed bag

07-Aug-2003

by Claire Hu The good, the bad and the ugly are showing up in draft licensing policies from councils around the country. Some local authorities have...