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Group, which also owns restaurant brands including Toby Carvery, feels impact of increase in employer NICs The All Bar One owner, Mitchells & Butlers, has warned that it is facing about £130m in extra costs over the next year because of a soaring w…
Opening in Alicante airport is the chain’s first move into mainland Europe, and will offer outdoor drinkingBusiness live – latest updatesWetherspoon’s is to open its first pub outside the UK and Ireland, serving alcohol from 6am every day to sun-seekin…
Move to give mayors powers to raise funds through levies, but industry says it will ramp up prices and inflationBusiness live – latest updatesBritish holidaymakers could have to pay a nightly tax on hotel stays and Airbnb-style visits in plans expected…
Sprinklers could save 500-year-old tree that had branches cut off without authorisation in April, says expertThe restaurant chain Toby Carvery is being urged to pay for life support for an ancient oak tree that its owner had chainsawed last spring to w…
Sector is sceptical over government licensing proposals given ‘ever-rising costs’ and ‘reduced consumer spend’Plans to make it easier for pubs to open until the small hours will not offset the “toxic” combination of high costs and hard-up drinkers stay…
Ministers push ahead with plans as part of drive for economic growthPubs, clubs and restaurants will be able to open into the early hours as part of the government’s drive for economic growth, a move which critics say will lead to more drunken disorder…
Concern for ‘anchor tenants’ as trade body warns that stores could put up prices or cut jobs to protect profitsUp to 400 large shops are at risk of closure with as many as 100,000 jobs at risk if the government goes ahead with plans to hit stores with …
Great British Beer Festival called off as real ale enthusiasts’ group reports rising costs and stagnant membershipCamra, the real ale enthusiasts’ group, has cancelled Britain’s biggest beer festival amid an existential crisis as it launched a cost-cut…
Format to be tested in last quarter of year after chain’s value cut by a third amid ‘intense strains’ on hospitality industryPret a Manger is finally caving in to competition from supermarkets by launching meal deals, after the value of the chain was s…
Hollywood actor helps out at the Swan at Enford in Wiltshire as he and his neighbours fight to save their localIt was a pleasant surprise when a visitor to the Swan at Enford, a thatched pub tucked away in the folds of the Wiltshire countryside, found …