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Great British Pub Awards

Pub Awards: Best Student finalist - The Cowley Retreat, Oxford

08-Sep-2016 By James Evison

The Cowley Retreat is not marketed as a students’ pub and there is a clear desire to make it a space for everyone, rather than just the ‘beer and a burger’ student market.

Families still feel unwelcome in pubs

18-Mar-2016 By Emily Sutherland

Families visiting pubs, bars, cafes and restaurants still experience “covert or overt animosity” and are acutely aware of being unwelcome, according to new research.

Be At One sees sales growth of 42% over six months

06-Oct-2014 By Mark Wingett, M&C Report

Be At One, the Piper-backed cocktail bar chain, has reported a 9% increase in like-for-like sales for the 26 weeks to 28 September and secured a further regional site in Oxford.

Flexible trading hours 'neither fuel or cut violence'

25-Feb-2014 By John Harrington

Staggered pub closing times introduced in 2005 have neither reduced instances of violence or increased them, an academic study has concluded.

Greene King induction course pays off

15-Apr-2010 By The PMA Team

After introducing a compulsory induction course in March 2008, the pubco and its licensees are reaping the rewards.

Beer Hunter collection lives on

28-Jul-2008 By Matt Eley Matt

The contents of the office of beer expert Michael Jackson have been donated to Oxford Brookes University. The Michael Jackson Collection comprises...

Michael Jackson collection at Oxford Brookes

23-Jul-2008 By Ewan Turney

The contents of beer hunter Michael Jackson's office have been donated to Oxford Brookes University. Top beer expert Michael Jackson died aged 65...

Would sirs like axes to accompany dessert?'

09-Dec-2004

by John Harrington Members of a 100-year-old secret drinking club for students at Oxford University appear to have been responsible for a bizarre...