Marketing can be tough for small or single-site operators, who often don’t have the budget to compete with multiple site operators or the big managed pub chains. But one Yorkshire licensee has scooped a major marketing award and driven more trade to...
Pubs that missed out on grants to help move their businesses forward because of tight deadlines could be in line for extra funding. Rural pubs in the...
"Parliamentary privilege" gives rights to MPs that lesser mortals such as journalists can never enjoy. Last week the Labour MP John Grogan described...
Why are so many rural pubs closing, at the rate of a dozen or more a month? Is it lack of consumer demand, or some new force at play in society? The...
Population changes have affected the viability of licensed premises. Agents say pubs across the country have closed down and sprung up in new places,...
Grants are being offered to help rural pubs in Cumbria provide new services for their communities, in a ground-breaking tie-in between the trade and...
A Swindon MP has highlighted the plight of rural pubs by asking exactly how many are closing. Civil servants were unable to provide MP Michael Wills...
by Ewan Turney The Welsh Assembly has voted to ban smoking in all public places, but may excuse small and rural pubs from paying business rates amid...
A survey of beer volumes at more than 1,000 pubs has shown the hot weather in July and August produced a spectacular 11%-plus increase at rural pubs....
by Claire Hu A new planning law that aims to save the last remaining pub in a village has helped stop the closure of at least eight rural pubs since...
Struggling rural pubs should not try to compete with larger chains on price but should add value to their food and entertainment offer, according to...
Could you run this Warrington pub? The Hawthorne is a thriving community sports pub in Warrington, showing live sport each day, along with live music every...
