British director Guy Ritchie could be forced to close down his pub after a row over noisy celebrities. Neighbours in posh Mayfair, London, claim the Punch Bowl is making their lives hell, and they want Westminster Council to review 41-year-old Ritchie’s pub licence.But Piers Adam, a director of the Punch Bowl, has hit back in defence of the pub. “We have created a lovely pub,” the Daily Star quoted...
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Admiral Taverns has confirmed that Lloyds Banking Group is working on a financial restructuring of the struggling pubs group that is thought to involve a £600m debt-for-equity swap.The deal means Lloyds will in effect take control of Admiral, which it inherited in last year's acquisition of Halifax/Bank of Scotland, although it will stop short of owning a 50 per cent majority stake. Lloyds declined...
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director Guy Ritchie praised Princess Beatrice, the elder daughter of Britain's Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson, saying she was very humble when she came to his pub, The Punch Bowl, here.Dailystar.co.uk reports that the 41-year-old Ritchie, who was married to pop star Madonna, said that Princess Beatrice was mobbed the last time she came to the pub. He said that others in the pub thought the princess...
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British director Guy Ritchie could be forced to close down his pub after a row over noisy celebrities.Neighbours in posh Mayfair, London, claim the Punch Bowl is making their lives hell, and they want Westminster Council to review 41-year-old Ritchie’s pub licence.But Piers Adam, a director of the Punch Bowl, has hit back in defence of the pub.Topnews.in...
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director Guy Ritchie could be forced to close down his pub after a row over noisy celebrities.Neighbours in posh Mayfair, London, claim the Punch Bowl is making their lives hell, and they want Westminster Council to review 41-year-old Ritchie's pub licence.But Piers Adam, a director of the Punch Bowl, has hit back in defence of the pub....
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Police investigating the rape of a 19-year-old woman in a pub in Dorset have arrested a local 39-year-old man.Police went to the Salisbury Arms in the Purewell area of Christchurch shortly after midnight on Tuesday after a 999 call from a man.They want to speak to three men who were drinking at the pub between 2000 GMT and 2230 GMT on Monday.The man is being held on suspicion of rape. The pub was sealed...
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disc jockey (DJ) of a popular pub in Bandra was nabbed by anti-narcotics cell (ANC) sleuths on Saturday evening while allegedly trying to sell drugs outside the pub. The DJ has been identified as Jolly alias Balwinder Singh, 22. Sachin Singh, 28, believed to be the middleman in the drug deal, was also arrested.The ANC, Bandra unit, officials were acting on a tip-off that a pub insider was going to...
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One of the UK's last parlour pubs has been bought by two regulars, including its next-door neighbour, after the death of the landlady who ran it for 74 years.After moving to a small Herefordshire village about 17 years ago, Gary Seymour went for a pint in the Sun Inn and felt like he had entered a "time warp".As one of the last remaining 'parlour' pubs, the 200-year-old establishment in Leintwardine...
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died after drinking six pints of water over three hours which left him with dangerously low levels of sodium in his blood, an inquest heard.Anthony Holtam, 47, from Bridgend, had been in the Mackworth Arms pub in the Laleston area of the town when he collapsed in October last year.The inquest was told Mr Holtam had underlying health problems and liver cirrhosis caused by excess alcohol.The inquest...
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Four people have been arrested after a 23-year-old man was seriously injured in a shooting on Merseyside.The victim was discovered with bullet wounds to his chest and stomach outside the Kingfisher Hotel pub on Bewley Drive, Kirkby, at 2210 GMT on Friday.Police said the man, from Kirkby, was in a critical condition in hospital after undergoing emergency surgery.A woman aged 47, and three men aged 20,...
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