Five people are dead, including two children, after a BMW drove into a crowded outdoor area at the Royal Hotel in Daylesford around 6pm on Sunday evening. Established in 1856 in the centre of the small tourist-based town about 100 kilometres north-west of Melbourne, the Hotel is a popular destination for locals and visitors. Police […]
Max Hitchins, aka Melbourne Cup Max, veteran hotelier, chairman of the 15 Club and author of ‘How To Pick The Winner Of The 2023 Melbourne Cup’, has penned some prose on this year’s big race, set to run at the usual time on the first Tuesday in November. Max is the son of a bookmaker in
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ALH and a former Wiggle have teamed up to save lives through the rollout of defibrillators in more than 350 hotels across the country. This week Endeavour Group, parent company to Australian Leisure & Hospitality (ALH), announced a new partnership with former yellow Wiggle Greg Page and his charity Heart of the Nation to install
An international storm has erupted and prompted sombre investigation after Britain’s historic so-called ‘wonkiest’ pub closed, burned down and was swiftly demolished. Built in the 1830s, the Crooked House in Himley withstood and was suitably modified to accommodate its foundations having sunk 1.2 metres on one side. After nearly two centuries, last week it was
A suspicious fire at the Paradise Valley Hotel in the early hours of Sunday morning has forced it to close. Emergency services were summoned to the Clematis pub around 3.30am, with seven units responding, from Clematis, Bayswater, Emerald, Menzies, Narre Warren East and Selby. According to crews, the fire was underneath the hotel, in the
Dozens of firefighters fought to save the historic Burwood Inn of Merewether, as a blaze took hold in the kitchen and spread through the building. Fire and Rescue NSW (FRNSW) crews bearing more than 40 personnel responded to calls for help at the Hunter region pub soon before 10am on Tuesday. They found the rear
Investigators are treating as suspicious a fire that destroyed the historic and beloved Ky West Hotel in northern Victoria. Just before midnight on Monday (20 March), emergency services were summoned, and police and more than a dozen CFA vehicles rushed to the Ky West Hotel at Tongala, near Kyabram, around three hours north of Melbourne.
This is an open love letter to pubs. By Mel Buttle, comedian A good pub makes you feel both at home and comfortable, but a great pub makes me feel like getting a tattoo. Going out for dinner to a restaurant is one thing, and, yes, restaurants have their place, but going up the pub,
A Queensland town’s hub pub is fighting on and back, after a huge storm hit the tiny town and crashed nearly half the pub, late last year. A night of drinking and offer of an interest-free loan led to old mates Tom Auriac and Grant Champion buying the pub in the in the town of
An aviator walked into a bar, bought it, and installed a new lived-in look to accompany the kitsch community of Kaniva. Lurking around 420 kilometres north-west of Melbourne, in a Victorian border town, the Commercial Hotel in Kaniva is a two-storey brick pub, built 1928. There has been a hotel on the site since 1888.
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