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Sky will be showing golf’s 2010 Ryder Cup live in 3D this year, and has just released the list of 3D football fixtures for this season.

A Greene King tenant is suing the company for more than £230,000 after attempts to lease the pub or buy the freehold failed.

The transfer of responsibility for licensing to the Home Office should free up the DCMS to positively promote pubs, trade leaders argue.

The winner of Campaign for Real Ale’s Champion Bottled Beer of Britain will be stocked at Travelodge for the second year.

A report into the collapse of Merchant Inns, the mid-market pubs-and-inns business, shows that only half of its six venues were profitable.

Drinks giant Diageo has backed the Government's tough plans for licensing — saying they are better than a ban on below-cost alcohol sales.

Fancy a £12 pint? Well, hundreds did at the renowned White Horse in London’s Parsons Green - which sold 576 half pints of special American ale at £6 a pop.

Save the Pub Group chair Greg Mulholland has called for a meeting with the Home Office over the proposed changes on licensing.

The long-running dispute between Sky and the ALMR rumbles on — the two are at odds on the actual size of this year's price hike.

One trade group has blasted the proposed licensing changes as top down stick bashing of pubs.

The second part of the controversial mandatory alcohol retailing code is set to be scrapped — but the pay off will be new late night levy.

The trade has expressed fears over the size of any proposed hike in licence costs and being the target once again of Government action.

An Aberdeen councillor is waiting for guidance from the Scottish government before acting on irresponsible alcohol promotions.

Luminar, Britain's biggest nightclub group, has attracted the interest of at least two private equity groups according to reports.

Local authorities will be able to object to a licence on the grounds of public health under a major shake-up of licensing laws.

Read our summary of the ten key points from the Licensing Act consultation launched this morning by the Home Office.

Alcohol charity Drinkaware has joined forced with the National Union of Students (NUS) to target alcohol misuse among students.

Scottish & Newcastle Pub Company (S&NPC) has become the latest pubco to have its updated code of practice for tenants fully accredited for clarity.

Bogus callers are targeting pubs in south Wales to pay for ads in magazines — according to one Chepstow host.

Doorstaff licences are being revoked or suspended at an increasing rate, according to figures from the Security Industry Authority (SIA).

A clutch of operators that took part in a trial of labelling menus with calorie information have decided not to continue with the scheme.

Police in Cambridge say a traffic light system has helped two pubs raise their safety standards.

Brewers Fayre, the value pub restaurant brand by Whitbread, is to rollout an “all you can eat” offer across eight of its pubs to run alongside its existing offer. The company has been conducting a trial of the “Buffet Place” concept.

A Government minister has promised to bring forward plans to reform licensing of live music “as fast as we can”.

Manchester brewer and pub operator Hydes has recorded a 38% rise in underlying annual pre-tax profits.

Small businesses are still finding access to finance tough, the Forum of Private Business has said.

Are you a dining pub which has added an exciting new element to your pub’s business or a newly opened gastropub that deserves to get noticed?

A Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA) member has released a book to help ale-lovers visiting Edinburgh find good pubs.

Punch Taverns' code of practice with tenants has been formally accredited for clarity under the BIIBAS scheme.

A former BII Licensee of the Year is ramping up his consultancy business to help others in the pub trade.

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