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UK GOVT OVERHAULING GAMING IN PUBS TO SAVE INDUSTRY

Drinking Culture, Global perspective / Clyde Mooney

The UK government has opened consultation on regulations around gaming machines in pubs and other venues, seeking views on updating protection for players and venues amid increasing choices. A series of gambling white paper consultations have begun on multiple gambling issues – including ‘Measures’ relating to ‘land-based’ gambling. In April authorities published the Gambling Act […]

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UK CLOSES AGAIN: ONE THIRD OF PUBS MAY NOT REOPEN

Drinking Culture, Global perspective / Clyde Mooney

Due to a massive resurgence in coronavirus cases since mid-September, the United Kingdom has again gone into total lockdown, closing all pubs in a second attempt to get the pandemic under control. The nationwide lockdown came into effect again on Thursday (5 November), currently scheduled for the next four weeks. Prime Minister Boris Johnson says

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UK PUBS IN TROUBLE AND ON THE ROPES

Drinking Culture, Global perspective / Clyde Mooney

Defying continued prohibition orders, some UK pubs have been secretly serving booze, and their begrudged patrons resorting to violence in defence of their perceived right to sip a pint. Australian pubs are mostly resuming trade, albeit subdued, but thousands of pubs across Britain are counting down the minutes to 4 July, the day Prime Minister

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UK PUB CLOSURES CONTINUE AT TWO-DOZEN PER WEEK

Global perspective / Clyde Mooney

New figures out of the UK show the steady decline in the number of pubs in Britain, with thousands closing since 2013. The UK Market Growth Monitor by CGA and AlixPartners reports that across Britain the number of pubs and bars has fallen 11.3 per cent in the past five years, amounting to an average

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GAS CRISIS THREATENS DRAUGHT BEER

Global perspective / Clyde Mooney

Britain in in the grips of a crisis, as low production and high demand for CO₂ bring the real possibility the country’s famously tepid beer will also be flat. Carbon dioxide, whilst enjoying recent fame as a greenhouse gas, has long been employed to put bubbles in beer, and push it out of kegs and

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HEINEKEN BUYS 1,900 PUBS

Property / Clyde Mooney

Brewing giant Heineken has been given the nod to secure nearly 1,900 British pubs from Punch Taverns. More than two years in the making, the monster deal will see more than 3,200 pubs in the Punch portfolio split between Heineken and Patron Capital, in a total deal worth around AU$650 million. The Dutch brewer, which

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COPS CRACK DOWN ON BAD-BOY UK PUB

Global perspective / Clyde Mooney

UK licensing authorities are calling to task a suburban pub they say has become a “focal point for crime and disorder” after too many callouts for them and paramedics. The south London district of Blackheath is known for its extensive green spaces, village feel and traditional pubs. But one has been identified by authorities as

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