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WE’VE had pop up bars and restaurants – now what’s claimed to be Scotland’s first pop up hotel has arrived in Edinburgh. With demand for...

A CAMPAIGN for a return to traditional pub and nightclub trading hours has been launched in Glasgow, amid growing concern that intense price competition between operators is fuelling binge drinking in the city late at night. Operators are lobbying the city’s licensing board, the police and council leaders for the restoration of the midnight and 3am closing times for pubs and clubs, which largely prevailed until the 2005 licensing Act replaced seven licence types with the single premises licence in 2009.

Lessee hands over Edinburgh pub to employee of 23 years AN Edinburgh cask ale pub has changed hands – but the new man charged with...

GLASGOW’S hotels, bars and restaurants enjoyed a bumper spin-off from London 2012 as sports fans flocked to the city to catch the Olympic football action at Hampden. Hotel occupancy rates on the night the first of eight games played at the national stadium reached a record 96%, compared to 90% and 81% on the same day in the previous two years, according to figures quoted by Glasgow City Marketing Bureau and Glasgow Chamber of Commerce.

ON the day Sir Chris Hoy took his second gold medal at London 2012, making him the most successful British Olympian ever, a brewery in the cyclist’s home city was celebrating a gold medal of its own. Embra, the 5% ABV amber beer from Stewart Brewing, was named Champion Bottled Beer of Britain at this year’s CAMRA Great British Beer Festival in London on August 7.

EDINBURGH restaurant Mark Greenaway at No 12 Picardy Place has expanded with the launch of seven new bedrooms and suites. Designed by HK Surveying &...

A BRECHIN pub owner is calling time on his 26-year trade career – the second time he’s attempted to retire. Bob Stack, who has run...

WHISKY connoisseurs will have the chance to sample a selection of Scotland’s most expensive drams at an exclusive tasting session next month. Whisky costing more...

PATRICK Ricard, chief executive and chairman of global drinks giant Pernod Ricard, has died aged 67. A joint statement issued by the Ricard family, the...

ALCOHOLIC ginger beer Crabbie’s is back on TV screens this month as part of a new wave of activity for the brand. The new ad,...