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14 Aug 2008
Report By Jonny Fordham  Courtesy of The Reading Evening Post

A Whitley convenience store has had its licence suspended for six weeks after selling alcohol to a 15-year-old boy.

Supersave in Northumberland Avenue sold booze to the same teenager twice in two months. Just six days after Trading Standards officers questioned its...
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13 Aug 2008
 Report By Linda Fort     Courtesy of The Reading Evening Post

It's a case of 3Bs to 3Been after the much-loved council-run bar has announced plans to slash its opening hours and close at lunchtimes because it is losing cash.

The bar, part of the Town Hall and Museum of Reading, currently opens most...
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12 Aug 2008
Report  By Anna Roberts  Courtesy of  Reading Evening Post

A well-known figure in Reading’s gay community is waving goodbye to the town after nearly four decades.

At 38 – having lived in Reading all his life – manager of The Wynford Arms Adrian Grist is moving up north to Manchester to take...
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12 Aug 2008
Report Courtesy of The Reading Evening Post

A barmaid from Reading has raised a glass to say cheers after reaching the final of the De Kuyper Cocktail Cup 2008.

Michelle Temple, from the Pitcher & Piano in Friar Street, entered the competition with her smooth and fruity ‘Apricot Sundown’.

The summer drink packed...
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04 Aug 2008
Report Courtesy of www.crp-news.com

How can existing powers be used to ensure the proper monitoring and implementation of alcohol-related controls at neighbourhood level? This report from The Wine & Spirits Trade Association, The Retail of Alcohol Standards Group and Cambridgeshire Trading describes a successful pilot project which tackled under-age drinking...
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04 Aug 2008
Report Courtesy of The Cornish Guardian

A Night Marshal scheme is to be trialed in Newquay, Cornwall. Private security staff will patrol the streets of the popular holiday centre in the early hours during the holiday season.

Security staff have been hired to patrol the town between 1.30am and 4.30am...
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01 Aug 2008

Report By Paul Charity, Courtsesy of The Morning Advertiser 

Two major managed pub companies, Yates’s operator Town & City Pubs and Mitchells & Butlers (M&B), have taken disciplinary action against staff after food hygiene lapses uncovered in a BBC documentary.

Yate's has taken action over food safety

A Yates’s site in Reading...
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01 Aug 2008
Report By Ewan Turney, Courtesy of The Morning advertiser 

Regent Inns non-executive chairman Bob Ivell has left his post with immediate effect.

 Jim Glover will take Ivell's place with Tanith Dodge replacing Glover as chairman of the renumeration and appointments committee.

Ivell was made non-executive chairman last month after his time as executive...
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01 Aug 2008
Report By Ewan Turney, Courtesy of The Morning Advertiser 

The BII has blasted a Government commissioned report on social responsibility as nothing more than “tittle-tattle”.

 Pubs, bars and clubs were slammed for "irresponsible and harmful practices” in a damning report by auditors KPMG earlier this month.

The report said the industry’s voluntary Social...
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01 Aug 2008
Report By John Harrington, Courtesy of The Morning Advertiser

Current pressures on the Government suggest it is seriously considering minimum pricing again.

What’s the background?

Minimum pricing, where retailers don’t sell drinks for lower than a set price, has divided the trade for years. Advocates say it’s a sensible way to stop irresponsible...
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