The so-called ‘cowboy’ developers that illegally demolished Melbourne’s historic Corkman’s Irish Pub have been jailed for a month and ordered to pay over $400,000 in fines and legal costs. In 2016 news broke of a fire in the pub, which was not trading. Just a week later the old hotel was unceremoniously demolished over a […]
Albury’s oldest pub, Soden’s Hotel, is looking at a massive repair bill after a reckless driver crashed into the 163-year-old heritage building, bringing down its awning. Around 3am on Saturday a 24-year-old driver, allegedly seen driving erratically and doing burnouts, appears to have lost control of his Ford Futura, crashing through three poles suspending the
A 33-year-old man has appeared in court, accused of ramming his ute into a pub in Collie last week, pinning two young women to the wall, causing horrific injuries. Last Thursday night 23-year-old Georgia Moloney and 18-year-old Alexis Tate were outside the Crown Hotel, around 11pm, when Benjamin Lawrence Byrne-Quinn reversed his Toyota Hilux into
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A former manager at ALH’s Royal Hotel in Beenleigh is suing the group for around $750,000, claiming their failure to provide safe conditions resulted in her PTSD and ongoing disability. In a statement of claim filed in Beenleigh District Court, Amanda Lena Kathleen Budd outlined her case against Australian Leisure & Hospitality (ALH) in regards
Salec Sua, aka ‘Lekks’, has been jailed again this week for his role in a brawl at the Village Hotel last year, occurring shortly before he was jailed for a previous brawl at the Carousel Inn that nearly killed an innocent man. The 27-year-old was one of the front men of the once up-and-coming rap
A 35-year-old former soldier has been charged with murder over an alleged attack and the death of another man, in a Canberra pub last week. Police understand Kerry Kourpanidis was dining at the Kingston Hotel on 5 July with his partner, six-year-old daughter and another friend. Also at the pub at the time was Warren
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A man was arrested this week for allegedly glassing a manager at ALH’s Boomerang Hotel after he was asked to leave an area of the pub due to COVID-19 restrictions. Police were called to a Hotel on Wagga Road at Lavington around 8:45pm on 4 June, after report of an assault. Police allege a 21-year-old
The Supreme Court in South Australia has ordered directors of Bloody Mary Group to pay partners over $380,000 after they pocketed lucrative rebate deals with major brewers. In 2016 business partners Brett Viney and Matthew Mitchell bought the Windmill Hotel for around $1.4 million in a venture with father and son Michael and Nicholas Crouch.
Doctor-publican John Harvey has unleashed a David and Goliath battle against the ATO, which has already seen the closure of his Royal Oak Hotel at Cessnock. John Harvey operates the Hunter Valley Dental Practice, and in 2011 bought the nearby Royal Oak Hotel. The Australian Tax Office (ATO) reportedly allowed Harvey to file returns as
A Tamworth publican has been banished to Sydney after being further charged in matters of witness tampering and breaching bail relating to other pending licensing matters. Owner of Tamworth’s Imperial Hotel, Michael Ian Foxman, was arrested on Wednesday, charged with two counts of ‘acting with intent to influence witnesses’. The 49-year-old was initially charged in
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