Bar 08: The future starts here
27-May-2008
The future is here… BAR.08 opens in London in just a few weeks and, as past shows have proved, it's the place where operators sharpen their cutting...
Westminster ordered to pay nightclub £65,000
23-May-2008 By John Harrington
A judge has ordered Westminster City Council to pay £65,000 costs to a nightclub operator after refusing the authority's request to reduce opening...
Early closing for Bucks vodka bar
22-May-2008 By The PMA Team
Police praise Inventive 'responsible view' Inventive Leisure has agreed to close earlier at a second Revolution vodka-bar site to tackle antisocial...
Leadenhall vodka bar hours cut to midnight
17-Apr-2008
Inventive Leisure's flagship Revolution vodka-bar site in the City of London's Leadenhall has had its hours pegged back from 3am to midnight...
Nick Yates: Maasai Wariors and Puffing Publicans at the London Marathon
15-Apr-2008
Sweaty, breathless congratulations to all the London Marathon runners in a week in which the chefs team outran the publicans."We was robbed," said...
10-Apr-2008 By The PMA Team
Inventive Leisure's flagship Revolution vodka bar site in the City of London has had its hours pegged back from 3am to midnight
18th century brewery to be brought back to life
08-Apr-2008
One of London's oldest brewing sites is being brought back to life by the Meantime Brewing Company. The brewer has just started excavation and...
Whitbread in £100m London hotel expansion
08-Apr-2008 By Hamish Champ
Whitbread announced today it will be opening six new Premier Inn hotels in London during the next three years at cost of £100m, adding 1,200 rooms...
28-Mar-2008 By The PMA Team
Suffolk brewer and retailer plans to have 30 Cellar & Kitchen stores open by 2012 as part of a plan to more than double profits
Anglesea Arms
27-Mar-2008
South Kensington, London Capital Pub Company managed house The idea of a country pub in the middle of London may sound like a fantasy, but that is...
The Gun
27-Mar-2008
Coldharbour, London E14 Punch Taverns leasehold Tom and Ed Martin finally opened the Gun in September 2004. Prior to that, the brothers had spent a...
Legendary music pub up for sale
20-Mar-2008 By James Wilmore
An iconic North London pub where bands such as Blur, Suede and the Libertines plied their trade, has come onto the market for the first time in...
City diary
06-Mar-2008 By The PMA Team
Opening bars of the Bluus Marston's is lining up a City of London opening for its Bluu Bar Brasseries chain, acquired from the Fat Cat Group a few...
29-Feb-2008
Ross Williams of the Wellington in Wellington, Herefordshire scoops the prestigious title
Hamish Champ: Music in pubs; you can't beat it
18-Feb-2008 By Hamish Champ
I was pleased to see that my last blog effort - on the subject of music pubs threatened with closure thanks to high-minded local residents -...
Marathon contenders line up
06-Feb-2008
THE PRIDE of the pub trade will be on the line in April when the chefs take on the brewers in this year's Flora London Marathon.The Chefs on the Run...
Young's buys three Capital pubs
30-Jan-2008 By Hamish Champ
Capital Pub Company has sold three freehold pubs to South London operator Young & Co in an £8.5m deal.One of the sites, the Cock & Hen in...
Top chefs praise pub grub
29-Jan-2008
Pubs are driving a revival of interest in fresh, local food, according to two of Britain's best known chefs.Michel Roux Jr and Anton Edelman told...
Licence revoked at murder pub
17-Jan-2008
A pub where a young girl was murdered will lose its licence after police asked a local authority to review it. Haringey Council's licensing committee...
Sudarghara Dusanj
10-Jan-2008
Sudarghara Dusanj, chief executive, Cains Corporate goal for the year? To maximise our sponsorship of Liverpool, European Capital of Culture 2008,...
09-Jan-2008 By John Harrington
Westminster City Council is fighting defeats of its restrictive licensing policy. Westminster has applied for a judicial review (JR) of a judge's...
New pubs on the block
01-Dec-2007
Mark Taylor looks at some of this year's hottest new openings The Narrow Limehouse, London, E14 ?gordonramsay.com When Gordon Ramsay announced his...
Alcohol emergency figures rise 12 per cent
22-Nov-2007 By James Wilmore
Alcohol-related 999 calls to the London Ambulance Service have risen by 12 per cent in the capital in the last two years, new figures have revealed....
Safer drinking campaign hits the road
12-Nov-2007
Drinkers in four major cities are being warned that if they are not careful how much they drink, they may end up in a police car or ambulance. Black...
The end for the real East Enders?
08-Nov-2007
Forget the Queen Vic, says Karen Dugdale, how will the real local pubs near London's planned Olympic site fare under the onslaught of redevelopment?...
London regional focus: Passing the Flask
25-Oct-2007
MAKING CHANGES to anyone's local is always potentially fraught with peril, and the more history that's attached to a pub, the more difficult it can...
London regional focus: Capital gains
25-Oct-2007
THE SAYING goes that when you're tired of London, you're tired of life. And it would appear that many members of the brewing fraternity have, at some...
Cllr Theobald feels exposed over nudity
11-Oct-2007
There was spirited debate at the Association of Licensed Multiple Retailers Morning Advertiser-sponsored away-day in Brighton last week. Councillor...
London councils team up to show 'scores on the doors'
08-Oct-2007
Pubs across London are to be asked to display a food hygiene rating after 28 of the capital's councils teamed up to launch a 'scores on the doors'...
25-Sep-2007
Morning Advertiser readers are being asked to help create a little history by sending their pre-smoking ban paraphernalia to London's Science Museum
21-Sep-2007 By Tamara Sender of M&C Report
BBPA writes to government with figures showing the Licensing Act has led to a reduction in alcohol-related violence
Licensing Act having positive effect, MPs told
20-Sep-2007 By James Wilmore
MPs have been told of the major effect the Licensing Act is having on cutting alcohol-related crime.In a letter seen exclusively by The Publican, Rob...
Camden Council reviews licensing policy
11-Sep-2007
Camden's alcohol policy is currently under review and the London council is asking for residents to share their views.The council is responsible for...
17-Aug-2007 By Joe Lutrario
Hey Joe Club in Mayfair, which is currently publicly flouting the smoking ban, has been named by Westminster City Council as one of 21 premises that...
Pub prices up after complaints from neighbours
13-Aug-2007
A Wetherspoon pub in Battersea, south London, is reportedly planning to push up its prices to deter rowdy drinkers who neighbouring residents' have...
19-Jul-2007 By Iain O'Neil
The BBPA has questioned a new study, based on figures at one hospital, which says the new licensing laws trebled alcohol-related admissions to A&E departments.
Pubs "pawns in the City's game of monopoly
13-Jul-2007 By James Wilmore
Pubs have become "little more than pawns in the City's game of monopoly", the joint chief of a property agent has claimed. During a speech on the...
Unfair balance in West End, Glendola chief claims
05-Jul-2007 By James Wilmore
A leading pub operator has spoken out about the imbalance between the needs of businesses and residents in London's West End. Speaking at a debate on...
Call for unity to solve drink-related problems in London
05-Jul-2007 By Mark Wingett
Operators, property agents, councillors and police say better communication and partnership is needed
London bar gets extra hours in landmark case
26-Jun-2007 By James Wilmore
A landmark licensing case has seen a London bar granted extended hours in the West End stress area. Fudge, on Bear Street, just off Leicester Square,...
Camden venues praised for drop in crime
15-Jun-2007 By James Wilmore
Pubs and clubs in the London borough of Camden have been praised by a senior police officer for helping produce a major drop in violent crime....
BBPA fights bill giving litter authorities veto over licences
07-Jun-2007 By James Wilmore
A trade group is fighting potential new legislation that could hit pubs in London with more red tape over licensing.Under the London Local...
Novus' bar brand targets professionals
10-May-2007 By Tamara Sender tamara.sender@william-reed.co.uk
Novus Leisure, the late-night bar operator, plans to launch a new bar concept across 30 of its sites over the next three years. The new contemporary...
Customers to pay with contactless cards
08-May-2007
Pub customers will be able to pay for their two pints of lager and a packet of crisps with new contactless credit and debit cards using new readers...
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...
01-May-2007 By Tamara Sender of M&C Report
Novus Leisure, the late-night bar operator, plans to launch a new bar concept across 30 sites over the next three years. The new contemporary bar,...
The ALMR conference - a lesson in how to have fun in the licensed trade
27-Apr-2007 By Hamish Champ
I wandered over the Millennium Bridge from our offices on the South Bank this week to pay a visit to the Association of Licensed Multiple Retailers'...
Pubs told to speed up smoke planning
26-Apr-2007 By John Harrington john.harrington@william-reed.co.u
Councils are urging licensees in England to submit plans for smoking shelters as soon as possible, after reporting that only a trickle of...
NewsDigest
19-Apr-2007
Capital Pub Company (CPC), the EIS-backed London group, has delayed its planned public listing, according to MA's sister publication M&C Report....
Young's top retail managers rewarded
12-Apr-2007
Neil and Maria Dunning of the Duke on the Green in Fulham, west London, were crowned Retail Managers of the Year at the Young's awards. The couple,...
