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@Vince Cable we need #MRO. #BIS plan not enough to #SaveOurPubs

Val Spencer -- aka Life Long Landlady -- runs the Cock in Lavenham, Suffolk and is a leading campaigner via Twitter for reform of the pubco model and the need for a market-rent option for licensees. In typical Twitter style, she expresses her disappointment at Business Secretary Vince Cable's watered-down pubco proposals

Added: Wednesday, June 11th 2014

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BBPA: wake up and smell the coffee

Simon Clarke, both a chartered surveyor and publican, is a leading light in the Fair Pint campaign seeking a better deal from pubcos. He argues that the response by the British Beer and Pub Association (BBPA) to Vince Cable's proposals for pubco reform is woefully inadequate and ignores the fact that beer is cheaper on the open market

Added: Saturday, June 7th 2014

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Cable proposals won't stop pub closures

Proposals in the Queen's Speech for pubco reform from Vince Cable and Nick Clegg stop short of meeting demands for a real shake-up that will give tenants a market-only rent option to widen drinkers' choice. And nothing in the plans will prevent the closure of pubs, running at 28 a week

Added: Tuesday, June 3rd 2014

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Dear Dr Cable: no more shilly-shallying, it's time to get tough with the pubcos

In an Open Letter to Business Secretary Vince Cable, Roger Protz says the delays to Dr Cable's report into the pub companies is causing great concern for pub tenants and pubgoers. As a result of their debt mountains, Enterprise and Punch are selling off viable pubs and closing down vital community assets. The time for action is now

Added: Sunday, June 1st 2014

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Save pubs petition delivered to Cable

Pub landlords and CAMRA members delivered a petition to Business Secretary Vince Cable yesterday demanding action to save pubs from closure and to curb the power of the giant pubcos. But it's strongly rumoured that Dr Cable's promised report on pubcos will not now appear before the general election

Added: Thursday, May 15th 2014

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CAMRA in pub appeal to London mayor

CAMRA's Greater London Region has appealed to mayor Boris Johnson to include greater protection for the capital's pubs in his Plan for London. The campaign wants to stop pubs being turned into supermarkets or betting shops and will hold an open seminar at the end of May

Added: Friday, May 9th 2014

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Why the Fox's goose wasn't cooked

The Fox & Goose pub in Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire, looked doomed to close when the landlady became ill. But locals formed a co-op that raised the money to pub the local and save it from the hands of the dreaded 'pubcos'

Added: Thursday, April 17th 2014

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Cable urged to act on pubco reform

Groups representing publicans and consumers have written to Business Secretary Vince Cable urging to press ahead with pub company reform, including a market rent that will give licensees a decent income and stop them losing their jobs

Added: Wednesday, April 2nd 2014

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Pub lovers join forces to save their locals

More than 50 British pubs are now owned by their communities, research by CAMRA reveals to mark the start of April's Community Pubs month. Many more have been listed as Assets of Community Value to stop pub companies asset stripping them. One example of a community owned pub is the Norton in the Essex village of Cold Norton, with licensee Debbie Guppy pictured behind the bar

Added: Monday, March 31st 2014

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Villagers raise £300,000 to save their pub

Villagers in the tiny Devon village of Littlehempston -- population 207 -- have rallied to save their local pub, the Tally Ho Inn, that was threatened with being turned into housing. The inn has been given Asset of Community Value status and 100 villagers became shareholders in the co-op that now runs the pub and which is open for business

Added: Tuesday, March 25th 2014