Budget threatens jobs and venues, pub bosses warn as business rates rise Pubs, restaurants and small shops are all expected to see their property tax payments jump from the next financial year. Evening Standard · Nov 27, 2025
Britain Set To Lose One Pub A Day In 2025 Amid Soaring Beer Prices The UK pub industry faces crisis as rising beer prices and inflation force one pub to shut down daily in 2025. Here's why closures are accelerating — and what it means for other sectors. International Business Times UK · Jul 14, 2025
Admiral Taverns to weather Budget tax increases amid stronger trading The pub firm, which runs around 1,400 sites, revealed stronger profits for the past year. Evening Standard · Feb 3, 2025
Wallsend pub landlord reflects on his 22 years behind the bar of The Rosehill Tavern "When I saw an opportunity to take the pub on I thought I'd give it a go and I'm pleased I did" Chronicle Live · Jul 1, 2023
Community pub closes just 18 months after six-figure transformation The pub operator is looking for a new manager to run it Bristol Post · May 22, 2023
Pub landlord forced to tear down £13,000 beer garden shelter after 'one complaint' Pub landlord Paul Dean, 48, has worked tirelessly over the past 18 months to transform the Alexandra Hotel in Lancashire - but says he has now been ordered to tear it down after just one complaint Daily Mirror · May 18, 2023
Angry Leeds landlord booted from pub to move across the road to 'put spanner in works' of new owner's plans David Holmes, landlord of The Sportsman Inn in Morley, said: 'I’m going to make sure a spanner goes in them works' Leeds Live · Mar 25, 2023
160-year-old pub in Newport closes and building put up for sale The pub's landlord said rising costs of beer and the cost crisis had impacted trade Wales Online · Mar 17, 2023
Leeds landlord 'distraught' his family-of-five is being booted out of pub in a week David Holmes, of The Sportsman Inn in Morley, 'doesn’t know where to go' with his partner and three children Leeds Live · Mar 2, 2023
The Nottinghamian: Pubs offer reassurance - and bar determined to open after 'horror show' Take a look at the Nottinghamian newsletter from Friday, February 10 Nottingham Post · Feb 10, 2023
Nottingham pubs move to reassure customers as city council approves plan to sell buildings It comes as the city council sells some of its assets Nottingham Post · Feb 10, 2023
2 Nottingham pubs being sold off by the city council as it looks to balance books It comes at a time when the city council continues to work to avoid Government intervention in the form of commissioners. Nottingham Post · Feb 9, 2023
Leeds pub landlady who has served generations of families pulls last pint after 32 years Michelle took over the pub in August 1990 Leeds Live · Jan 23, 2023
'Prominent' Ilkeston pub closes and goes up for sale The Admiral Taverns-owned venue shut down in September Nottingham Post · Nov 12, 2022
Liverpool Echo · Oct 26, 2022 Chance to save 'traditional' pub from the 18th Century Some regulars have been drinking at the establishment for 40 years
The Guardian - UK · Sep 8, 2022 ‘Didn’t go far enough’: firms give Truss’s energy bills scheme lukewarm welcome The support package for dealing with soaring costs doesn’t go far enough, in many businesses’ eyes
The Guardian - UK · Sep 3, 2022 Chris Jowsey: the pubs boss lobbying to keep locals in business Tired of waiting for government help for his tenants facing soaring energy bills, the Admiral Taverns chief executive decided to buy fuel direct from an oil and gas producer
Wales Online · Aug 29, 2022 Pubs and brewers warn over mass closures as energy bills soar by 300% Bosses from Greene King, JW Lees, Carlsberg Marston’s, Admiral Taverns, Drake & Morgan and St Austell Brewery have signed an open letter to the Government urging it to act. They say the rise in energy costs will cause more damage to their industry than the pandemic did if nothing is…
Chronicle Live · Aug 9, 2022 Historic Northumberland pub reopens following £700,000 investment The Coach and Horses in Hexham was awarded some of the money through a grant from Historic England and Northumberland County Council
Liverpool Echo · Jul 5, 2022 'Haunted' pub closes for urgent work over fears it could collapse "The whole pub has got to shut for health and safety reasons"
Manchester Evening News · Jul 5, 2022 'Haunted' Cheshire pub from the 1600s forced to close as building is at risk of collapse Urgent work has been brought forward to stabilise the 17th century building