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27/8/20: Story and photograph courtesy of North Wales Live www.dailypost.co.uk Richard James Griffiths who was barred under the Pubwatch scheme and Gino Breeze swore and threatened workers at the bar The Fat Cat bar in High Street, Bangor Two men who were abusive towards two bar workers after they were refused service have been ordered […]
18/8/20: Story and photograph courtesy of Scottish Licensed Trade News www.sltn.co.uk A NEW hospitality trade group in Aberdeen is to create an assurance scheme for participating venues to reassure returning customers once venues in the city are allowed to reopen. Aberdeen was placed back into lock-down on August 5, by first minister Nicola Sturgeon after […]
17/8/20: Story and photograph courtesy of The Mail www.nwemail.co.uk A MAN who brandished a bread knife in front of a Lake District bar manager later told police he was nine out of 10 on the “drunk scale”. The Lily, Ambleside Lee Stuart Atherton, 30, was passing the Lily Bar on Lake Road in Ambleside at […]
Landlords slam ‘totally unacceptable’ behaviour 12/8/20: Story courtesy of Derby Telegraph www.derbytelegraph.co.uk Pub landlords in a Derbyshire town have criticised a “small minority” of punters who found it “amusing” to provide incorrect tracking information. The Ilkeston Pubwatch scheme made the accusations after Derbyshire County Council confirmed that four people who visited some of the town’s pubs […]
9/8/20: Story and photograph courtesy of Stoke Sentinel www.stokesentinel.co.uk Quinn Reardon-Garlick has signed up 33 venues to his Covid-19 Pubwatch group. Drinkers who refuse to abide by social distancing regulations could soon find themselves banned from every pub in North Staffordshire. Quin Reardon-Garlick, who runs non-profit culture and entertainment magazine Mark! has set up a […]
7/8/20 Story and photographs courtesy of Cornwall Live www.cornwalllive.com Landladies Emma and Shannon say there have been many challenges since they re-opened they have been overwhelmed by the support from locals Emma Dow and Shannon Joosse, landladies of the Garland Ox pub in Bodmin The landladies of a pub in Bodmin say they have had […]
7/8/20 Story courtesy of The Courier www.thecourier.co.uk Publicans in Brechin have introduced a booking system and want bar goers to stop “pub crawls” as they hope to ward off a potential coronavirus outbreak linked to hospitality venues. A group of Angus publicans have been praised after moving swiftly to curb any potential coronavirus outbreak following the […]
5/8/20: Story courtesy of The Daily Gazette www.gazette-news.co.uk A CRACKDOWN on pubs and bars which don’t obey social distancing guidelines has been announced by Colchester Council following concerns about lack of social distancing at a number of venues. The council also says it has received complaints from the public about a number of other venues […]
Some of the attendees 4/8/20: An indication that despite all the commercial challenges and uncertainties faced by licensees at this time, that they are still very conscious of the threat posed by the small number of troublemakers who could damage their efforts to rebuild trade. NPW Chairman Steve Baker, wearing his regional representative hat for […]
It is with great regret that we have had to cancel this years Pubwatch Awards. It has become clear that due to the continuing pandemic that our venue for the awards dinner on 21 October could not be guaranteed. Currently all House of Lords events for September 2020 have been cancelled with no firm guarantee […]