Beer tie loosened after Bill amendment?
By Gillian McKenzie
IT has spanned several years, dividing opinion and polarising the industry; and, last week, the debate over the ‘beer tie’ took another...
Lessons must be learned from refresher meltdown
By Gillian McKenzie
IT has loomed large on the Scottish trade’s horizon for some time now.
And as the deadlines by which the first ‘batch’ of...
Will Bill call time on licensing reform?
By Gillian McKenzie
IT was billed as a piece of legislation designed to ‘tidy up’ bits of the 2005 Licensing Act which weren’t quite working...
Board was right to scrap glass ban plan
HIGHLAND licensing board’s proposal to ban glass after 9pm in bars, restaurants, nightclubs and hotels across the region was certainly a controversial one.
When it...
Music to the trade’s ears but more must be done
NEWS that the Scottish Government plans to implement the ‘agent of change’ principle in the planning system has rightly been welcomed by operators
Licence lessons must be learned
I DON’T want to tempt fate but, at the moment, it seems as if history could be on course to repeat itself.
Business impact must be given full consideration
BARELY a week goes by without some new initiative or piece of legislation being introduced without, it seems, full consideration of the wider implications...
Training turbulence continues
By Gillian McKenzie
THAT many in the Scottish trade are running out of time in which to complete personal licence holder refresher training and notify...
Beer’s cup runneth over
By Gillian McKenzie
FROM new brands and flavoured beers to the expansion of production facilities, the beer category has been a hive of activity in...
Time to act as lower limit takes its toll
“VITAL to the Scottish economy”, “one of our biggest employers” – the praise for our tourism industry just kept on coming from deputy first...
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