I think I speak for all of us when I say I felt utter disbelief when I first saw the amount my Business Rates was increasing by! I simply couldnt believe it, nothing had changed in my business, I wasnt making a shed load of more money and I found it hard to get my head around the j...
23/10/2018
A huge petition with more than 105,000 names behind it is calling for an end to the price of beer going up. It is hoped that the huge campaign will persuade Chancellor Philip Hammond to cut beer tax to save pubs from closing when he delivers his Budget later this month. At the moment, the Long Li...
22/10/2018
Plastic straws, drink stirrers and cotton buds will be banned from April next year
An e...
22/10/2018
Two pubs a day have either been demolished or converted to other uses according to analysis of Government data by Real Estate adviser Altus Group.
616 pubs have completely disappeared since new rates came into play. Although the £1000 discount, which 90% of pubs received, all with a rata...
05/02/2018
We have all seen how Prosecco sales has sored over the last year so much so that a swansea restaurant has installd a "push for Prosecco button"
They say they are the first in South Wales to have the buttons where guests can expect attentive waiting staff to deliver their chosen tipple t...
31/01/2018
Liberal Democrat parliamentary candidate for St Albans Daisy Cooper has restated a call for 12.5% cap on business rate to help protect pubs and small businesses.
Using her favourite pub The Boot as an example, they've seen a business rate rise of 280% from 14000 to 53000 a year! To ...
09/11/2017
A one voice letter has been sent to the Chancellor stating he will put the future of Pubs and thousands of jobs at risk if he does not address disproportionate ...
30/10/2017
(UK) Campaigners refuse to mee...
Greg Mulholland has refused to meet with Paul Newby next month. Mulholland states that he thinks a meeting would be absurd as both The British Pub Confederation (BPC) and the Save the Pub campaign, both which Mr Mulholland are chairman, refuse to accept Mr Newbys appointment.
Mr Mulholl...
04/05/2016
(UK) Concerns by MP'S over new...
MP attacks 'laughing stock' pub code adjudicator appointment
T...
10/03/2016
(uk) Paul Newby announced as n...
The Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, Sajid Javid, has appointed Paul Newby as Pubs Code Adjudicator (PCA). The PCA will have responsibility for enforcing the Statutory Pubs Code. The Pubs Code will govern the relationship between large pub-owning businesses and th...
10/03/2016