02-Mar-2020 By Nikkie Thatcher
A supplier of illegal streaming devices that provided unauthorised access to Premier League content has been ordered to pay back £521,000 to the ‘public purse’.
07-Jun-2019 By Emily Hawkins
Pubcos have welcomed rule changes meaning they will be able to offer prisoners more work and training opportunities.
Chef recruitment crisis
26-Aug-2015 By Daniel Woolfson
Training convicts in chef skills could help solve combat the critical shortage of skilled chefs affecting the hospitality industry.
03-Jun-2013 By Helen Gilbert
Three men who attempted to steal more than £4.7 million in an alcohol tax fraud have been jailed.
28-Feb-2012 By Adam Pescod
Five men from the Midlands have been handed jail sentences totalling 14-and-a-half years for their part in a plot to steal £5 million worth of beer kegs from across the region.
14-Feb-2011 By Lesley Foottit
A North Yorkshire licensee, jailed for attacking a man, will be free to run another pub when he gets out. Jack William Lindon, 23, of the Old Ebor...
Extra mandatory code guidance due tomorrow
30-Sep-2010 By James Wilmore
More guidance on the next stage of the mandatory code is due to appear on the Home Office website tomorrow (Friday), when the new laws come into...
16-Jul-2010 By John Harrington
Pubs supplied by rogue jukebox firm Access All Areas — whose directors were jailed last week — are now able to play music legally. The 200 or so...
New licensing minister: 'No agenda to penalise pubs'
14-Jun-2010 By Matt Eley Matt
The newly-appointed licensing minister has said there is no government agenda to punish pubs and that they are "part of the solution" to dealing with...
Bolton smoke ban rebel freed from prison
11-Mar-2010 By Matt Eley Matt
A licensee who was jailed after failing to pay fines for letting people smoke in his pub has been released after serving less than two weeks of a six...
10-Mar-2010 By Lesley Foottit
Smoke ban rebel Nick Hogan has been released from prison after just 12 days following an online campaign. More than £9,000 was raised to secure...
Smoke rebel's fury at friend's jailing
04-Mar-2010 By Matt Eley Matt
The first ever jailing of a licensee in connection with the smoking ban has been labelled a disgrace by a fellow rebel. Nick Hogan was sentenced to...
01-Mar-2010 By Ewan Turney
A former licensee who refused to abide by the smoking ban has been jailed for six months after refusing to pay a fine. Nick Hogan, who used to run...
01-Mar-2010 By John Harrington
Smoke ban rebel licensee Nick Hogan, who has been jailed for six months, is a "political prisoner", according to his party UKIP.
19-Jan-2010 By Ewan Turney
Licensees could face a six month jail sentence or a £20,000 fine if they fail to ask anyone who looks under-18 for ID under the Government's...
19-Jan-2010 By Ewan Turney
Sending someone to jail for six months for failing to hand over a free glass of tap water in a pub is "absolutely ludicrous", say trade leaders.
'Student pub crawl company under fire'
08-Nov-2009
"Carnage, the company that organises college pub crawls, is facing a massive backlash from student unions, MPs and the police over the behaviour of...
Man jailed for pub worker attack
05-Aug-2009 By Matt Eley Matt
A campaign group has welcomed the three year jail term given to a man who attacked a pub worker with a lump of wood with nails driven through it....
'Senior judge to send every violent drunk to jail'
05-Aug-2008
Young people caught up in alcohol-related violence should expect zero-tolerance prison sentences, a senior judge warned yesterday. Judge Graham...
Foreign satellite supplier gets suspended sentence
11-Apr-2008 By James Wilmore
A supplier of foreign satellite football equipment has escaped jail, but been given a 10-month suspended sentence for supplying decoder cards to...
08-Oct-2007
Two drinkers who left a Daventry licensee with a broken jaw on Boxing Day could be sent to prison. Robert Dunn, aged 30, and Glyn Shakespear, aged...
07-Jun-2007 By Ewan Turney
Councils and police will get new powers to close problem pubs for almost half a year under latest Government plans to fight antisocial behaviour. The...
What the Sunday papers said
11-Jun-2006
The roll-out of the government's controversial identity card scheme is set to be delayed by a Home Office failure to begin the procurement process on...
31-Mar-2006 By Iain O'Neil
A licensee who admitted allowing alcohol to be sold to underage drinkers in his Guildford pub was spared jail today. Paul Gibbens, 24, had been...
Minister blames pubs, not SIA, for doorstaff licence chaos
07-Apr-2005
Home Office minister Hazel Blears has blamed the pub industry for the crisis over unlicensed doorstaff. Ms Blears (pictured) was responding to...
Last-minute call for postponement of SIA scheme
10-Mar-2005
There are new calls this week for an eleventh-hour postponement of the doorstaff registration scheme, with the body in charge facing legal action...
Landlady cleared of manslaughter
27-Jan-2005
A licensee has been cleared of the manslaughter of her two sons and a customer who died in a fire at her pub. Kate Knight, 32, was cleared of three...
Jail for jilted lover in terrifying attack
28-Oct-2004
A jilted lover who imprisoned his former girlfriend and her friend in his ex-girlfriend's pub before torching the building has been jailed for four...
Shooters boss gets 25 years in jail
26-Feb-2004
A man who led a double life as a drinks company boss and international drugs smuggler has been jailed for 25 years. Francis Kennedy, 39 who...
Pubs join crime fight
03-Jul-2003
Pubs are joining forces with high-street retailers in an initiative to catch shoplifters. The radio link-up scheme, thought to be the first of its...
What the Sunday papers said
12-May-2003
The Mail on SundayMitchells & Butlers plans to raise £1.6bn by effectively mortgaging half its 2,100 pubs. About £1.3bn will be used to repay...
