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Convenience retailers in Scotland are £4000 worse off under current licensing legislation – while more than 40% of local authorities have made a profit from administering the new system. That’s the damning conclusion of a report by the Scottish Grocers’ Federation (SGF), which claimed the 2005 licensing Act has cost Scotland’s 5600 convenience stores a total of £22.4 million since it went live on September 1, 2009.

MIDLOTHIAN’S Howgate Restaurant & Bistro flew the flag for Scotland at a major awards ceremony in Manchester last month. The business was named Best Scotland...

SCOTTISH & Newcastle Pub Company has introduced a business planning process that will be compulsory for all new lessees. The system requires all new lessees...

PUBS looking to boost midweek crowds should consider turning to supernatural means. That’s the suggestion of professional psychic Jane Dawson, who claims pubs, hotels...

SCOTTISH & Newcastle Pub Company is to spend £1.5 million creating additional income streams for its Scottish pubs. To maximise the impact of the capital...

CIDER consumption in the UK has soared to nudge ahead of lager, new research has claimed. The “steep sales growth” experienced by cider in the...

THE number of UK businesses entering insolvency dipped in January, according to business consultancy Experian. Figures supplied by the company show that the UK insolvency...

A 160-bedroom Tulip Inn hotel is to be the centrepiece of a proposed new restaurant and retail development in the heart of Glasgow’s Commonwealth...

THE importance of tourism to the economy was underlined by Scottish Tourism Forum chair Stephen Leckie as part of this year’s Scottish Tourism Week. Speaking...

PLANS by the Scottish Government to ban tobacco vending machines in pubs could yet be overturned – despite the latest failure of attempts to...