Former pubs minister Bob Neill has accused Enterprise Inns of deliberately “running down its estate” after it sold the Porcupine pub in Bromley to supermarket chain Lidl.

Pubs have been reminded of the law on gaming equipment after two individuals at a pub in Ashford, Surrey, were prosecuted for giving customers access to an illegal gaming machine.

Star Pubs & Bars, the Heineken-owned leased pub operator, is set to run more business building and networking area meetings for its lessees.

Guinness has signed a deal with the Rugby Football Union (RFU) to become the Official Beer of England Rugby.

Licensees in Lewes are campaigning for a major music festival in the town to change its strict no re-admittance policy after fears were raised that local businesses would suffer.