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But SLTA insists football TV bills should have been cut for pubs SKY Business has given Scottish pubs some welcome breathing space after confirming its...

GLASGOW design firm Surface ID has scooped two awards at the national Restaurant and Bar Design Awards in London. Surface beat competition from five London...

Pub giant Punch Taverns is poised to split into two separate companies on August 1. The demerger, which was announced in March following a strategic review of the company, will see its tenanted and managed divisions separated to form two listed pub companies. It comes nine years after Punch first demerged its managed division, the then Spirit Group Holdings, before buying it back in January 2006.

A successful appeal by the operators of a Glasgow lap dancing club against the board’s decision to refuse its licence application may lead to a “dramatic erosion” of licensing board powers. Solicitor Stephen McGowan said the Court of Session decision to refer the application back to the board for reconsideration has major implications in terms of matters boards can seek to control and the conditions they can attach to a licence which are not “expressly linked” to the sale of alcohol.

Keeping empty properties secure can be cheaper in the long-run EMPTY pubs and restaurants are not exciting, writes Mark Cosh of vacant property management firm...

THE UK Border Agency’s clamp-down on businesses using illegal migrant workers has been further reinforced with the news of two central belt businesses facing...

GLASGOW bar The Big Blue has expanded its outdoor dining space in time for summer, with the introduction of new seating and the opening...

THE latest annual quest to find Scotland’s best wholesale businesses is now underway. Now in its tenth year, Scottish Wholesale Achievers aims to recognise excellence...

BBC MasterChef champ Tim Anderson took time out the kitchen recently to help the team at Alva’s Harviestoun Brewery cook up a batch of...

GOOD weather and the sequence of bank holidays in April and May provided some respite from “challenging” trading conditions, the firm behind Tennent’s lager...