Industry News

07 Dec 2015

Scotland - and that reduced Drink Driving limit!

Propel is today reporting that the number of drink-driving offences in Scotland has fallen since the legal limit was lowered a year ago. Police figures apparently show offending in the nine months after December 2014 fell by 12.5% compared with th...

03 Dec 2015

Alcohol Wholesaler Registration Scheme (AWRS) – update

Our monthly newsletter issued earlier in the week confirmed that this scheme was still due to go live on 1 January 2016, following a delay from its original implementation date of 1 October 2015. In anticipation of this, HMRC have now published a...

02 Dec 2015

Disabled access to goods, services and facilities - briefing

The Disability Discrimination Act 1995 (DDA) made it unlawful for service providers to discriminate against disabled people in certain circumstances.  On 1 October 2010, the Equality Act 2010 (EA) replaced most of th...

02 Dec 2015

New THINK drink drive campaign materials

The BBPA is alerting to ‘the availability of new THINK drink drive campaign materials including a selection of new posters and Facebook images for pubs and bars, designed to encourage customers to make the right choice by not driving after d...

27 Nov 2015

Scotland - liquor licensing statistics 2014-15

Every year the Scottish Government releases liquor licensing statistics and those for 2014-15 have just been issued and can be found here: Crime and Justice - Publications - Liquor Licensing in Scotland. The figures show certain details relating ...

26 Nov 2015

New psychoactive substance banned under temporary power

As previously reported, the Psychoactive Substances Bill is continuing is way through Parliament. In the meantime, the Government will place a temporary ban (through a Temporary Class Drug Order) on MPA, properly known as Methiopropamine, which h...