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- “Axe the beer tax – save the pub”
- ‘Ban alcohol loyalty points to save health’
- ‘Darling couldn’t give a XXXX’
- ‘Trade must unite to save pubs’
- 100 councils have now resolved to use the Sustainable Communities Act!
- 100,000 Britons back call for freeze in Beer Tax, forcing Parliamentary debate
- 113 councils that have so far ‘opted in’ to the Sustainable Communities Act
- A Plea to the Chancellor
- A taxing time for beer drinkers
- Academic dismisses Scottish Licensed Trade Association appeal on smoking ban
- Alcohol a third cheaper in shops than 10 years ago
- Alcohol Concern’s support for ‘responsible drinking’ published in SIBA Journal
- Alcohol duty rise could worsen binge drinking
- Alcohol report to be published by MPs
- Ale brewers join forces to revitalise beer
- Alistair Darling told of North Yorkshire’s ailing pubs
- ALMR urges ban on below-cost selling
- Anti-tax mascot and friends hit Parliament
- Apples blossom as brewers’ pips squeak
- Axe the beer tax news
- BBPA and SIBA join together in demanding HMRC join us in the 21st Century
- Beer “price-fix” fury: Call for ministers to investigate overcharging pubs
- Beer Debate on Newsbeat!
- Beer Duty Debate: Treasury minister vows to do more to help pubs
- Beer duty reform is backed by 100 MPs
- Beer Duty: Andrew Griffiths puts pressure on Treasury to review escalator with early day motion
- Beer Duty: note to members
- Beer group chairman Andrew Griffiths labels VAT cut campaigners as “deluded”
- Beer is the best match for food
- Beer tax rises ‘must end to secure future of Ulster’s pubs’
- Beers to parliamentary candidates offer well received!
- Below-cost selling not “immoral”,
- Bob Neill raises a glass to the Great British pub on a visit to Kent
- Brewer calls for urgent beer duty review
- Brewer’s Plea to MPs to Stop Beer Tax Escalator
- Brewer’s rage over “backdoor” tax
- Brewers attack Chancellor for increased tax
- Brewers call on Hogarth
- Brewers In Call For Beer Tax Axe
- Brewers plead for duty rethink
- Brewers Pledge Beer Ahead of Westminster Mass Lobby
- Brewers tell OFT removing the tie would “shake the industry’s foundations”
- Brewers use Hogarth-esque pictures
- Brewing chiefs urge end to beer tax regime
- Brown to ban ’24-hour drinking’
- Brown: no plans to introduce minimum price
- Budget 2009 : New Duty Rate
- Budget 2013: Pubcos and breweries pass on beer duty cut
- Budget responses from members & more
- Cabinet minister hails ale as ‘solution’ to drinking problems
- Call for Action after Pub Closures Hit 18 Per Week
- Call Time on Beer Duty Escalator, Government Told
- Call to Stop Beer Tax Rises
- Campaign for Real Ale challenges competition ruling
- CAMRA beer duty rally: Escalator is “crippling the industry” says MP Andrew Griffiths
- CAMRA beer duty rally: SIBA encourages Government to invest in pubs
- CAMRA calls for new pubs minister
- CAMRA stats show regular pub visitors down 3 million since beer duty escalator introduced
- Camra to give super-complaint update at BII event
- CAMRA to lobby for lower duty on 3.5% beers
- CAMRA urges planning law changes to stop pub supermarket conversions
- CAMRA warns Government after below-cost booze ban delayed
- CAMRA’s OFT appeal hearing postponed
- CAMRA: Budget freeze on beer and cider
- Chancellor first to taste ‘Pennies from 11’
- Chancellor guilty of ‘gross cultural vandalism’
- Chancellor increases duty in line with inflation
- Chancellor praised for ‘lifeline to pubs and communities’
- Chancellor raises duty on alcohol…again
- Chancellor ‘buried bad news on beer duty’, says SIBA
- Cheers as long fight on beer tax ends in victory
- Cider wins reprieve after government backs down on tax hike
- Closing time?
- Common Duty Calculation
- Darling ignores calls for beer duty cut
- David Cameron to reveal alcohol minimum pricing plans this week
- Disaster Brewing for Pub Industry
- Doctors call for cut in licensing hours
- Drinks discount cards legal in Scotland
- EC: minimum pricing can be legal
- End to beer tie ‘a near impossibility’, warns CAMRA
- Ex-Health Secretary calls for higher alcohol duty
- Excise Duty for Small Brewers
- Fair Pint calls for OFT to probe beer discounts
- Fair Pint challenges MPs’ community pub demands
- Fair Pint challenges pubcos over beer tax cuts
- Fair Pint tells OFT tie is to blame for pub closures
- Fair Pint: make Mulholland pubs minister
- Family brewers: beer tie fundamental to success
- Fears over major cider duty hike
- Fresh calls for beer duty freeze
- George Monbiot applauds Local Works for the Sustainable Communities Act
- Get off Beer Escalator – MP Pleads
- Get your MP’s to support the motion to scrap the Beer duty escalator
- Government confirms plans to ban below-cost selling
- Greg Mulholland MP calls for an investigation into price-fixing in the pub sector
- Grogan: ALMR played a blinder in mediation
- Heeley MP Supports Campaign Against Beer Duty Increase
- Hobgoblin – Stop the Beer Duty Escalator – E-Petitions
- Hogarth pictures – Channel 4 article
- Hook Norton says Axe the Beer Tax and Save the Pub
- House of Commons Beer Debate has started
- House of Commons Beer Duty Debate
- Industry groups unite over call for Budget duty concession
- It’s Better Down the Pub: your support needed!
- James Wilmore: Can we trust Cameron and Clegg on pubs?
- JFL adds to calls for alcohol code to be dropped
- Julian Grocock: MPs need to recognise the importance of beer and pubs
- Leading politician praises pub trade
- Lib Dem slams cheap supermarket booze
- Licensing stays with the DCMS
- Local brew Double Maxim on tap in Parliament
- Local brewers show support for duty cut
- Local Works campaign
- Low price drives heavy drinking
- Major push for bylaw to allow minimum pricing
- Mandatory code looks set for major delay
- Mandelson meets with Fair Pint
- Minimum pricing of alcohol does not go far enough, says Royal Society of Edinburgh
- Minimum pricing ‘welcome if it promotes pubs’ says SIBA
- Minister “pleased” OFT has re-opened beer tie inquiry
- Ministers offer CAMRA hope on beer tie
- MP backs brewer in campaign to save the Great British Pub
- MP issues pub warning
- MP slams supermarkets
- MPs hold event to change smoking ban
- MPs renew effort to lobby Gov’t to cut VAT in pubs
- MPs to debate threats to pubs
- MPs to examine pubco reforms
- MPs unite to call for scrapping of unfair beer duty escalator
- MPs welcome Independent Pub Confederation formation
- MPs ‘haven’t fully grasped’ beer duty escalator impact, claims SIBA
- New Duty Rates
- No reprieve on beer duty
- Off-trade attacked in new sketches
- OFT & Beer Tie
- OFT re-opens beer tie investigation
- On the day of the Budget Hook Norton says axe the tax to save the pub
- over 100 councils have resolved to use the new Sustainable Communities Act
- PBD tax breaks ‘distort market’
- Plymouth MP presents beer tax petition
- Politics Show – South East
- Pub closures rise due to beer tax, campaigners warn
- Pub group’s tax fight goes online
- Pub Industry Mediation Group
- Pub-goers get a fair price at the pump, says watchdog
- Pubco giants say no to Fair Pint meeting
- Pubco mediation draws to a conclusion
- Pubco reforms still to be finalised
- Pubs campaign targets election candidates
- Pubs Cannot Compete with Supermarket Prices says Managing Director of The Head Of Steam Ltd
- Rebalancing the Licensing Act (part 1)
- Roy Beers: No minimum pricing – just maximum policing
- Scrap the beer duty escalator hits 100,000 signature target
- Send A Text To Alistair Darling
- Shane Parr Talks to BCC Radio Shropshire about Beer Duty Escalator
- Shropshire’s MPs urged to back pubs and breweries in Commons debate
- SIBA and Minimum Pricing
- SIBA argues Defra report on Food Miles is relevant
- SIBA backs Publican’s Make it the Minimum
- SIBA disappointed at ‘more of the same’ for pubs
- SIBA hails beer duty debate as ‘triumph for British beer and pubs’
- SIBA Keeps up political pressure
- SIBA letter to the Financial Times
- SIBA Members Update and Action re the Sustainable Communities Act
- SIBA Mobilises to Axe the Tax!
- SIBA Political Subcommittee
- SIBA Reacts to Budget
- SIBA sends Chancellor a ‘Message in a Barrel’
- SIBA ships in ales for mass lobby
- SIBA shows Pride in British Beer
- SIBA slams duty hike
- SIBA slams Government’s ‘schizophrenic’ approach to local brewing
- SIBA slams Government’s ‘disconnected’ duty hike
- SIBA welcomes beer tie OFT referral
- SIBA welcomes Chancellor to ‘penny off the pint’ celebration
- SIBA/MASS LOBBY
- SIBA: Chancellor driving people out of the pub
- SIBA’s Local Brewing Report is covered in today’s Daily Telegraph
- Six out of 10 MPs against Budget beer tax rise
- STOP ANOTHER BEER TAX RISE – LOBBY YOUR MP NOW
- Storm in a pint glass: David Cameron faces Commons revolt to save pubs
- Strong beer tax could boost weak ale market
- Students Brew up a Success with Local MP
- Supermarket deals damaging alcohol brand building
- Sustainable Communities Act
- Sustainable Communities Act
- Sustainable Communities Act London Public Meeting
- Sustainable Communities Bill
- Sustainable Communities Bill
- Sustainable Communities Bill Update
- Sustainable Communities Bill Update
- Talk of the beer tie was banned from mediationBBPA lawyers said it would be against competition law to discuss the tie
- Tax on high-strength beer to go up
- The Beer Story
- The Budget: was Mr Osborne ashamed to spell it out?
- The New Duty Rate – info for SIBA members
- The New Duty Rate – info for SIBA members
- The Scottish government’s plans to impose a minimum price for alcohol suffered a serious set-back
- The smell of stagnating ale
- The Sustainable Communities Act
- The Sustainable Communities Bill
- Tough new drinks code to take effect on April 6
- Trade attacks government’s draft alcohol plans
- Trade groups slam Budget duty rise
- Trade lobbies for beer duty freeze
- Treasury Confirms it has no plans for Beer Duty Escalator Review
- U.K. Lawmakers Demand Probe of ‘Tied’ Pub Industry (Update2)
- U.K. Regulator Ends Pub Investigation
- Unite asks Molson Coors to reconsider jobs and pay changes in wake of beer duty cut
- Virtues in staying close to home
- We want “fairness” and “flexibility”, IPC tells MPs
- Welcome for Pubs Minister John Healey MP
- Welsh ministers push government for minimum pricing
- What does the new Government coalition have in store for alcohol policy?
- WSTA Advise Claims that Increasing the Cost of Alcohol Saves Lives are Misleading
- ‘The Beer Story – calling Time on Duty’ – Launch of new BBPA Short Film Making the Case for Tax Change
- ‘Time to get off the escalator’ says SIBA chairman
