Comment & Opinion

For many it’s a dream combination, but how do home deliveries of food and drink by pubs play out in licensing terms? I AM aware...

EVER since he assumed the licensing brief in 2007, justice minister Kenny MacAskill has often praised the value of the on-trade and the wider...

I WAS very sad to learn through the pages of the SLTN (December 13, 2012) of the tragic death of John Morton, who must...

AS Christmas ‘gifts’ go, it would have been as welcome as an ill-fitting woolly jumper from grandma. In normal circumstances, licensed operators spend the final...

IN an age of controlled media pronouncements, with politicians rarely allowed to stray ‘off message’, it’s always pleasing, if rare, to hear an elected...

TIMING, so the mantra goes, is the golden rule of comedy. That being the case, one can only conclude that finance minister John Swinney has no delusions of abandoning the day job in favour of a role as a stand-up. Take last week’s announcement by the Scottish Government that it intends to fall in line with Westminster and delay the next rating revaluation from 2015 until 2017. While the subject of property rates can never be described as a laughing matter, there was some irony in the fact the decision came in a consultation paper titled ‘Supporting Business – Promoting Growth’.

The right database can streamline your bar, restaurant or hotel business, writes IT consultant Richard Walsh BY the time you’ve looked at three new cars...

AS I sit at my computer, stroking my (Movember only) moustache and contemplating the latest developments in the trade, I find myself becoming more...

But ministers’ plans to bring empty buildings back to life could backfire IN a leisure sector which has not had its troubles to seek over...

THIS month I’d like to draw your attention not to the wonderful world of wine, but to a craft brewer that I think is...