Sting Operation

Wetherspoon spends £50k on aborted review

21-Apr-2011 By John Harrington, M&C Report

JD Wetherspoon spent about £50,000 on legal and other fees preparing to defend itself at an aborted licence review for one of its pubs that failed...

Lancashire licensee warns of new scam

10-Jun-2008 By Ewan Turney

A Lancashire licensee has warned his fellow hosts to be on the alert for a new scam hitting the trade. Michael Baines of the Eagle pub in Child...

Drunks sting reveals small number of incidents

09-Apr-2008 By James Wilmore

A month-long police clampdown on more than 1,700 problem pubs resulted in just three warnings to licensees, one review of a licence and one premises...

Back to Basics: Preventing underage drinking

18-Mar-2008

Beating the problem of serving to underage drinkers is a top priority for licensees - especially since the recently announced government plan to...

Cumbria pubs fail underage cigarette sting

04-Mar-2008 By Ewan Turney

Underage children in Cumbria managed to buy cigarettes from pub vending machines in 13 out of 13 tested venues in a sting operation. The pubs in...

Watch those ID dates

21-Jun-2007 By John Harrington john.harrington@william-reed.co.

Test purchasers are using genuine ID that says they are a couple of months under 18 during the current national sting operation, the MA has learnt....

Beware: police sting starts today

04-May-2007 By John Harrington

Three out of four police forces to take part in the 10-week national sting operation

The Guv'nor

09-Feb-2006

Bernard Brindley, licensee at the White Lion, Pailton, Warwickshire: Police should act in a more honest and up-front fashion to help crack down on...

Government's alcohol strategy spells out pub future

18-Mar-2004

The besieged pub trade is in for a long campaign of criticism from the public health lobby and the media in the wake of the government's Alcohol Harm...