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Govanhill retailers back scheme designed to cut underage drinking OFF-TRADE retailers on the south side of Glasgow have signed up to a new scheme designed...

Jon Beach, four-time winner of the SLTN Whisky Bar of the Year award, urges distillers to do more to support the on-trade. THE whisky industry...

Scottish consumers buying wine more frequently since laws came in THE Scottish Government’s ban on multi-buy deals has encouraged more people to buy wine, according...

PUBS in Edinburgh may soon be entitled to start serving alcohol on Sunday mornings as the city’s new licensing board continues to put its stamp on local licensing policy. Eric Milligan, the Labour councillor who became board convener after the local elections in May, signalled his support for extended Sunday trading in a speech to a conference hosted by legal journal Scottish Licensing Law and Practice.

THE Scottish Government has been slammed by the business community for delaying the next revaluation of business rates by two years. The next revaluation was due to take place in 2015 but will now take place in 2017 as ministers consult on plans to review the business rates regime. One lobby group criticised the move saying firms, including pubs, restaurants and hotels, will have to pay rates based on pre-recession property values for two more years.

THE Scottish on-trade is at loggerheads with Trading Standards over ‘integrity testing’ – a procedure designed to establish how effectively businesses comply with the law around age-restricted products. The testing, carried out by police and trading standards officers, sees 18 year olds attempt to purchase products like alcohol and tobacco to test the procedures retailers have in place.

PUB industry body BII has appointed a new chief executive. Tim Hulme will join the BII on January 7, 2013, and work with current chief...

THE officers behind Pubwatch schemes in the Govan, Craigton and Cardonald areas of Glasgow have been nominated as community champions. Licensing standards officer Julie Kane...

CHANCELLOR George Osborne’s autumn statement provoked a mixed reaction from business and licensed trade groups last week. While organisations like the British Retail Consortium and...

SCOTTISH wine and spirits merchant Inverarity Morton has expanded its wine team with two new appointments. Claire McLachlan has joined the company from wholesaler Bellevue...