23-Jan-2008 By Joe Lutrario
Changes to the empty property relief-rate system will come into effect in less than two months. The new bill penalises licensees who close to...
Government still opposed to blanket glass bans
17-Jan-2008
The Government has re- iterated its opposition to blanket bans on glassware in pubs. The advice comes in a new guide for police and councils on...
ALMR presses Government to take steps against off-trade
10-Jan-2008
Trade body the Association of Licensed Multiple Retailers (ALMR) has met Licensing Minister Gerry Sutcliffe and officials from the Department for...
Government reveals disorder zone flaws
07-Dec-2007 By Peter Coulson
As one of its final "thumbs down" to the reputation of the licensed trade, this Government has at last unveiled its deeply flawed concept of Alcohol Disorder Zones (ADZs).
Government spend on floods is too low
18-Oct-2007 By Ewan Turney ewan.turney@william-reed.co.uk
Flood-hit pubs could be uninsurable because the Government has not committed enough money for flood defences. That is according to the Association...
THE AGENTS
23-Aug-2007
Graham Allman Managing director GA-Select Whoever is in government has a strong effect on the trade and value of our businesses and taxation. Summer...
Pete Robinson: Who's law is it anyway?
17-Aug-2007
Does it belong to the Government? The police? The Queen maybe? How about the judges? Do they own the law? Wrong on all counts. Read the Magna Carta...
LETTERs
12-Jul-2007
The smoking ban starts to bite Is there any hope left for this country? Sunday saw the first day of the smoking ban in pubs. It was the first day of...
MyShout
28-Jun-2007
As Gordon Brown takes over, the time is right to make the industry's voice heard, says Jon Collins Am I the only person to feel a growing sense of...
Campaigners urge end to live music red tape
21-Jun-2007 By James Wilmore
The battle to save live music in pubs has been stepped-up following the final submission of an 80,000-signature petition to the Prime Minister. The...
15-Jun-2007 By Iain O'Neil
The Government is reportedly considering lowering the drink-drive limit to bring the UK into line with most of Europe. A report in the Times says the...
Licensees warned: 'stay responsible'
14-Jun-2007 By Tony Halstead THals22851@aol.com
Licensees and pub operators have been warned against complacency as the Government looks to probe irresponsible drinks prices by supermarkets. The...
13-Jun-2007 By Joe Lutrario
Police are continuing to call for blanket glass bans despite advice to the contrary from the Government, published in its National Alcohol Strategy....
True cost of red tape
07-Jun-2007
Cynical I may be, but not naïve. Councillor John Gover (Morning Advertiser, Letters, 31 May 2007) is right to comment on the red-tape issue that we...
Plan of action
07-Jun-2007
The long-awaited revised Alcohol Harm Reduction Strategy has received tentative backing from the trade. Pubs and the drinks industry have gone...
MyShout
07-Jun-2007
It's time the Government considered the real impact of its activities on the trade, says David Elliott Once again our industry is being pounded by...
Drinks industry calls for guidance on safe drinking labels
31-May-2007
The drinks industry is looking to the government for more direction over new alcohol labels.Following last week's announcement by the Department of...
28-May-2007 By John Harrington
Drinks producers are to list three pieces of sensible drinking advice on labels by the end of 2008 under a new voluntary agreement with Government....
Pubs to house 500 post offices by 2009
24-May-2007 By Ewan Turney ewan.turney@william-reed.co.uk
Pubs are set to house up to 500 post offices after the Government confirmed it would axe 2,500 by 2009. The Government has earmarked pubs as an ideal...
24-May-2007 By Andrew Pring
In a week when the Government announces its new alcohol strategy, it seems strangely perverse to write about public access to pub toilets. But for...
24-May-2007 By Peter Coulson
I have often remarked that the licensed trade has a roller-coaster affair with Government and politicians. For some periods, everything is grand,...
LETTERs
03-May-2007
High cost of freedom As the smoking ban draws nearer, the discussions around my bar go on. I don't think the Government has thought about the...
Bed tax on pubs ruled out by Government minister
22-Mar-2007
The Government has ruled out the possibility of implementing a bed tax, after the Lyons Inquiry this week recommended a consultation on the proposed...
Kick out the kids - right now
22-Mar-2007
There's a real chance that hundreds of pubs could be closed this summer, and facing big fines. The smoking ban? No, this is nothing to do with...
LETTERs
28-Feb-2007
Where there's a will there's a way Re: Roger Protz's article "Breaking the silence" (MA, 21 February 2008). On the assumption that Government will...
Consumers 'ignorant' over smoking ban
15-Feb-2007
The size of the task facing pubs, barstaff - and the government - ahead of the smoking ban has been laid bare by exclusive Publican research.But so...
No time to gamble with machine laws
04-Jan-2007 By John Harrington john.harrington@william-reed.co.u
Licensees are urged not to leave it too late to apply for the right to operate gaming machines when the laws change this year. Government has...
30-Nov-2006
Trade body Business in Sport and Leisure (BISL) has hit out at the Government for not getting its smoke ban guidance out yet.
The GUV'NOR
02-Nov-2006
Yvonne Cleminson Pubcos must do more to help licensees with growing red tape and spiralling costs says the licensee of the Cherry Tree in Farnham,...
BBPA demands government action over smoking ban
09-Oct-2006
Pubs need effective information and a start date for the smoking ban, says the British Beer & Pub Association (BBPA).In its submission to the...
09-Oct-2006
The British Beer and Pub Association has raised concerns about the implementation of the smoking ban. In its submission to the Government's public...
Energy rip-offs must stop - Andrew Pring
24-Aug-2006 By Andrew Pring
The scandal of licensees being ripped off by unscrupulous energy companies grows greater by the day. Big, national, supposedly trustworthy power...
16-Aug-2006 By John Harrington
The Government has launched a survey into how the Licensing Act has affected live music at pubs and other small venues. Pollsters Mori will be...
21-Jul-2006 By Iain O'Neil
Health minister Caroline Flint has told the House of Commons the Government will not issue a start date for the English smoke ban until the Autumn at...
06-Jul-2006 By John Harrington
Frustrated licensees face a "postcode lottery" over when they have to pay their annual premises licence fees. NEW COMMENT
29-Jun-2006 By Andrew Pring
It's hard to know what to make of last week's bombshell "hint" that Government might also be banning smoking outside very shortly. But the safest...
22-Jun-2006 By Iain O'Neil
Rob Hayward, the chief executive of the British Beer and Pub Association has written to the Government seeking clarification over the latest smoke...
20-Jun-2006 By Iain O'Neil
Last-ditch attempts to exempt private members' clubs from the smoking ban - and have separate smoking areas in pubs that serve food - have both...
24-May-2006 By Iain O'Neil
British Beer and Pub Association chief executive Rob Hayward met with officials from the Department of Health yesterday to state the need for smoke...
Health warning claims refuted by DoH
20-Apr-2006
The Department of Health (DoH) has denied claims that licensees will be forced to display cigarette-style notices warning about the health dangers of...
10-Apr-2006 By Iain O'Neil
Watchdog says fees for licensees 'unnecessarily high'.
01-Apr-2006 By Ewan Turney
We just couldn't resist an April Fool - the worrying thing is you just wouldn't put it past the Government to re-name the British pub. Thank you very...
Robert Feal-Martinez
30-Mar-2006
The Wiltshire licensee is an outspoken critic of the pub smoking ban. He believes that the legislation fails to take account of public opinion, making it undemocratic
Countdown to the smoke ban
23-Mar-2006
No date's been fixed, but England is expected to start a ban in 2007. Rosie Davenport outlines the current timetable
Residents call for more power over licensing
23-Mar-2006
Resident groups are calling for the government to make major changes to the new licensing regime to give them more power.Among the demands from Open...
21-Mar-2006 By Iain O'Neil
Support for the petition to overturn the Government's smoking ban is gaining serious momentum according to organisers. With over 30,000 signatures...
No apartheid in smoking
26-Jan-2006
The crucial vote on whether to ban smoking in all public places looks set for 14 February. And, if the direst warnings from some pub leaders are to...
Licence application should be simplified, says review panel
06-Dec-2005
The application process for the Licensing Act should be simplified, says the interim report by the government's independent review panel on...
Get creative with ways to trash the ash
01-Dec-2005
A smoking ban is on the way. Two options now remain - the Government will either outlaw smoking in pubs that prepare and serve food or impose a...
Trade slams 'madness' of smoking proposals
03-Nov-2005
Government contempt prompts dismay by Ewan Turney The Government has shown 'complete contempt' for the public in pushing ahead with its plan to ban...
