Village Pub

How the Community Services Fund helped publicans grow their business during lockdown

10-Nov-2021 By Rebecca Weller

Some 20 new village stores were opened on pub premises during lockdown, according to Pub is the Hub.

My Pub: The Dukes, Leighton Buzzard

15-Sep-2017 By Georgina Townshend

Two entrepreneurial sisters realised their dream when they helped return 200-year-old village pub, the Dukes, back to its former glory after spending time as failing Indian and Thai restaurants – before sitting abandoned for years. Co-director Jo Carter...

Punch grows Village Pub & Kitchen estate

24-Feb-2017 By James Wallin, MCA

Punch has grown its Village Pub & Kitchen format to seven sites and is assessing its estate for the next stage of rollout, MCA has learnt.

'Village pub invaded by 800 Nazi supporters'

25-Sep-2008

A village pub has been invaded by more than 800 white nationalists from Britain, Germany and Eastern Europe. The Bungalow Inn in Redhill, Somerset...

InBrief

14-Feb-2008

Preston's losing one pub a month Plungington Taverns licensee Graham Rowson claims that pubs in Preston, Lancashire, are closing at a rate of one per...

Pub Review - Hind's Head, Bray, Berkshire

01-Feb-2005 By Mark Taylor

Anybody who has experienced Heston Blumenthal's innovative cooking at his three Michelin-starred restaurant in Bray may have wondered whether he would turn the village pub into a watered down version of the Fat Duck...