02-Sep-2009 By Ewan Turney
The countdown is on for the unveiling of the best pubs in the country with the Great British Pub Awards just one week away. The Category and...
18-Aug-2009 By Ewan Turney
Marston's has thrown its full support behind Inez Ward's National Pub Week and will encourage all its tenants and managers to take part. The Week,...
14-Aug-2009 By Ewan Turney
Conservatives will be educated on the plight of the Great British pub, thanks to a pub quiz held at their annual conference in October. The Tories...
10-Aug-2009 By Ewan Turney
Darts legends Eric Bristow and John Lowe have voiced their support for National Pub Week. The Week, running from 31 October to 7 November, is the...
Getting into gear for Proud of Pubs Week 2009
18-Jun-2009
Whether it's with your own Proud of Pubs party, by engaging with a local MP or simply by selling Morrissey Fox Proud of Pubs Best Bitter, more and...
Who's backing Proud of Pubs Week?
18-Jun-2009
Find out more about how you can get involved in Proud of Pubs Week.If you'd like to join this illustrious group, email your picture and some text to:...
29-May-2009 By Ewan Turney
A group of licensees are planning to hold a National Pub Week to celebrate the Great British pub. The week is being organised by high profile...
15-May-2009 By Stephen Crawley
I had the perfect visit to a great British pub this week, says Stephen Crawley.
29-Apr-2009 By John Harrington
The Morning Advertiser is looking for the country's best live-music pub in a new category sponsored by Gaymers.
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...
Mark Daniels: Old publicans don't die... they just vacate their bar stools!
08-Apr-2009
We all know the type. I even have a couple who still use my pub who are similar. The gentlemen who you can set your watch by, who sit in the same...
Beer and Food Matching: Mark Sergeant's menu
16-Mar-2009
Mark Sargeant - 'Sarge' to his friends - has worked with Gordon Ramsay at restaurants including Aubergine and Claridges, as well as being seen...
National Pub Day launched
06-Mar-2009
Justice for Licensees and the Save the Great British Pub campaign has launched a National Pub Day on 4 April to highlight the positive role played by...
02-Mar-2009 By Ewan Turney
A group of licensees have launched a petition calling for Gordon Brown and Alistair Darling to resign for "ensuring the demise" of the British pub....
Tories get behind the Great British pub
20-Feb-2009 By Matt Eley Matt
The Conservative Party has launched a campaign to save the Great British Pub. The party points to the six pubs closing every day and slams the...
20-Feb-2009 By Andy Slee
While there are some rocky roads ahead, we can learn from the experience of others in laying the foundations for future prosperity, says Andy Slee.
30-Jan-2009 By Ewan Turney
Almost 60,000 people have signed up to a campaign to "Save the Great British Pub". The campaign is led by high profile licensee Inez Ward, who also...
09-Jan-2009 By Ewan Turney
Frustrated licensees are planning a protest march to highlight the plight of tenants outside the headquarters of Britain's two biggest pubcos —...
Tuppen and Thorley say pubco debt is not a problem
09-Dec-2008 By Hamish Champ
Bosses of the UK's leading pub operators today emphatically denied their companies' massive debts were putting the institution of the Great British...
27-Nov-2008 By Ewan Turney
A major campaign to save the Great British pub has been launched at Westminster today with calls to axe the beer tax.
27-Nov-2008 By Stephen Crawley
if the Great British Pub does not re-invent itself and evolve out of the current climate to offer great value to the citizens and tourists of Britain, I'll eat my hat, says Stephen Crawley.
Scots are the most generous at the bar
29-Oct-2008
The stereotype of Scots as penny pinchers could be coming to an end, after new research revealed they are the most generous round buyers in the UK....
City Diary — 25 September
25-Sep-2008 By The PMA Team
All the latest gossip and rumour from the City.
19-Sep-2008 By Ewan Turney
The Compasses in Pattiswick, Essex has been crowned Great British Pub of the Year — licensees Jono and Jane Clark won three awards in total.
Thousands of pub and brewing jobs to go
15-Sep-2008 By Matt Eley Matt
More than 40,000 pub and brewing jobs will be axed in the next five years according to a new report published today. The British Beer & Pub...
05-Sep-2008 By Neil Morgan
The sector will be kept on its feet through survival of the smartest.
Your say
17-Jul-2008
Winning with brand positioning I was surprised that your panel of experts missed the key subject of brand positioning when considering the criteria...
Hamish Champ: Arguing the case for pubs
09-Jun-2008 By Hamish Champ
Everyone's been bemoaning falling beer sales recently. Brewers, for obvious reasons, have been bemoaning them. Pubcos, for example Mitchells &...
Your say
08-May-2008
Flexible rents are way forward for pubs With reference to the editor's leader "What's fair and maintainable?" (MA, 24 April), I have a few comments....
17-Apr-2008
The Great British Pub Awards are specifically designed to recognise excellence in retailing across a diverse range of areas. There are 13 categories...
The agent
17-Apr-2008
Andrew Coulter, Redwoods Dowling Kerr The image of the Great British Pub is changing. Lifestyles, the economy, trends, the smoking ban and continuing...
14-Feb-2008 By Andrew Pring
MA editor Andrew Pring says it's high-time the pubcos joined the debate on the hard times ahead for the industry. "If you've had time to read any...
THE GUV'NOR
20-Sep-2007 By Yvonne Cleminson
The industry must unite and fight on all fronts to save the great British pub following the summer of discontent, says the licensee of the Cherry...
Pubcos must join in debate
14-Feb-2007
If you've had time to read any papers recently (other than the Morning Advertiser, that is) or listen to the radio, you may have noticed that the...
Why it's time to pledge your pride
14-Sep-2006
Pubs. We love them. You love them. And we hope that a lot of your customers are rather fond of them too. An army of licensees, from Guernsey in the...
Who's the best?
13-Jul-2006
The three finalists in the Whitby Breaded Scampi Great British Pub Challenge have been selected. The three will now go head-to-head for the title,...
Community pub contest offers £1,000 prize
08-Jun-2006
Pubs still have chance to enter the contest to find the Great British Pub, with a £1,000 award up for grabs.In association with The Publican, Whitby...
It's a fishy tail
01-Jun-2006
If you want to be voted "Great British Pub" you're still in with a chance, so download your entry form and posters from Whitby Seafood's website...
Licensee bids to raise profile of pubs
03-May-2006
A Kent licensee is set to walk from John O'Groats to Lands End in a bid to raise the profile of the great British pub.Darren Apps, from Tonbridge,...
In Praise of the Pub - Jean Christophe Novelli's passion for the great british pub
01-May-2005 By Max Gosney
Jean-Christophe Novelli - currently appearing on ITV's Hell's Kitchen - is a self-confessed Anglophile with a passion for the great British pub. Max...
