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A CALL for a new tax to be levied on whisky to ensure Scotland shares more of the industry’s success highlights the need for...

A LONG-standing campaigner for pubco reform welcomed the move by business secretary Vince Cable last week to make the country’s biggest landlords accountable to government in their relationships with tenants, saying it could signal a brighter future for hard-pressed leaseholders in Scotland. Cable surprised industry watchers when he announced that the Coalition would consult on putting the code of practice that sets out the pubco-tenant relationship on a statutory footing in the spring. The Lib Dem minister also confirmed plans to appoint an independent adjudicator to address unfair practices in the industry.

SKY Sports is promising to better its biggest ever year of sport after setting a new benchmark in 2012. During the last twelve months Sky...

MACLAY Inns is to open a pub in Broughty Ferry as part of its ongoing expansion drive. The operator acquired the former Robertsons retail/restaurant site...

TENNENT’S lager delivered “strong” revenues in the run-up to Christmas – despite a drop in the volume sold. In its interim management statement last week,...

A COPPER bar top is the centrepiece of the recently-revamped Jinglin’ Geordie pub in Edinburgh. Laidlaw Contracts, which is based in the capital, worked on...

AN award-winning chef has returned to the kitchen after relocating his restaurant to an historic Georgian building in Edinburgh. Mark Greenaway closed his eponymous restaurant...

THE final preparations are being made in the Scottish trade for events marking the birth of Robert Burns tomorrow (January 25). Luxury hotel Ackergill Tower...

IT’S not just because St Valentine’s Day is approaching that love is in the air at a top Ayrshire hotel. The four-star venue at Ayr...

SCOTTISH Licensed Trade News is to have a new editor – for only the fifth time since the paper was established in 1964. Gillian McKenzie,...