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Human remains may be dug up from under pub car park for convenience store

17-Dec-2015 By Oli Gross

When a pubco announces plans to build a convenience store on a pub car park, it’s often met with uproar from licensees, regulars and locals. But Marston's pub the Plough and Harrow in Sutton Coldfield has an unusual problem – the site is based on...

'Giant' vending machine installed in pub car park to replace village shop

02-Apr-2014 By Ellie Bothwell

A Derbyshire pub has become "a tourist destination" after its tenants installed a large vending machine, stocking a host of household essentials, in its car park.

Free Root Canal with Every Pint

31-Jan-2012 By Mark Daniels

There is nowhere I would rather be on a dreary Saturday afternoon in January than sat in the back of a mobile dental surgery… actually, strike that.

'Greene King to sell 100 pubs despite improving profits'

12-Feb-2009

The pub operator and brewer, Greene King, told analysts that while its top 1,000 tenanted pubs are improving profits, it has accelerated corrective...

Inquest hears of Wild West-style brawl

07-Jul-2005

A man died after a 'Wild West-style brawl at a south Wales pub, an inquest heard last week. Ian Wood, 25, severed an artery as he put his hand...

Murdered girl met gang in pub car park

12-May-2005

The 16-year-old girl whose body was found at Prospect Park in Reading met a group of men in a pub car park on the night of her death, police believe....

Labour Party photo shoot angers host

21-Apr-2005

A Gloucestershire host was left fuming after Home Secretary Charles Clarke used her pub car park for an election photo shoot without asking...

Pub car park bungee jump banned

28-Apr-2004

A charity bungee jump in a pub car park has been abandoned after safety fears.The jump was being held to raise money for the Children's Heart...

Man jailed for life after pub killing

25-Mar-2004

A man has been jailed for life for stabbing to death an 18 year old in a pub toilet after England's World Cup victory over Argentina. Thomas...

Brakspear buy

16-Oct-2003

Brakspear has bought its first pub in Wiltshire ­ the Shears Inn at Collingbourne Ducis. The buy takes Brakspear's total estate to more than 100,...

Unprovoked assault

16-Oct-2003

A man was jailed for six months for punching a customer in an unprovoked attack in a Dorset pub, a court has heard. Victim Wayne Keighley lost all...

Slain host's family plea

10-Jul-2003

The family of a landlord who was murdered during a raid on his pub has appealed for help in catching his killers, on what would have been his 60th...

Police probe

10-Oct-2002

into gunfire Police are appealing for information from pub customers after shots were fired on a Birming-ham pub car park. The incident happened at...