Crime
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Themed nightclub-cum-restaurant and celebrity haunt Gilgamesh in Camden, North London, has had its licence put under review by police after a man was glassed in the neck and other violent attacks went unreported. Police lodged a licence review of the nightspot with a claim that it was "associated with serious crime and disorder", according to www.hamhigh.co.uk.
Posted: 03 February 2012 | 19:33
A Chinese restaurant in Greenwich has been handed a record fine of £54,000 and its owners have been banned from running restaurants in the future after it failed to clean up its act. The Peninsula restaurant, 85 Bugsbys Way, SE10 pleaded guilty in Woolwich Crown Court to 18 breaches of food hygiene...
Posted: 23 January 2012 | 13:24
Hoteliers need to take steps to better protect themselves against fraud, according to a report published jointly by PKF Accountants and University of Portsmouth. The Resilience to Fraud of the UK Hotel Sector survey investigates how well the industry protects itself against fraud.
Posted: 13 January 2012 | 13:13
Celebrity chef Antony Worrall Thompson has apologised for what he called his “stupid and irresponsible actions” after being cautioned by police for shoplifting items from a Tesco supermarket. He was arrested after he took cheese and wine without paying for them from the store in Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire, on Friday.
Posted: 09 January 2012 | 12:17
A 14-year-old boy has pleaded guilty to robbing diners at the two-Michelin-starred Ledbury restaurant in Notting Hill during the riots this summer. The Inner London crown court heard that he and 13 other youths barged into the restaurant in the middle of service.
Posted: 20 December 2011 | 11:23
Police searching for missing chef Claudia Lawrence have a potentially "crucial" new lead after a new witness came forward. Lawrence, who was 35 when she vanished, was reported missing in 2009 after failing to turn up for work as a chef at the University of York.
Posted: 13 December 2011 | 11:12
A suit of armour, a two-piece leather suite and a 12ft model of Concorde are among some of the more unusual items that guests at Best Western hotels have taken home with them, along with the obligatory toiletries. One guest even managed to clear out an entire hotel room.
Posted: 05 December 2011 | 15:13
A 16-year-old teenager who set fire to JD Wetherspoon's Great Harry pub in Woolwich, causing £3.5m of damage, has been jailed for four years. The teen, who cannot be named for legal reasons and comes from Abbey Wood, was caught on CCTV setting light to a piece of wood and then running into the pub with it.
Posted: 05 December 2011 | 13:00
Two West Yorkshire licensees have been fined £17,000 for showing Sky Sports programmes illegally at their premises. Angela Briscoe and Edward Geater of the Bold Privateer in Shipley, West Yorkshire were fined following a successful prosecution by the Federation Against Copyright Theft...
Posted: 30 November 2011 | 15:04
Enterprise Inns has won a High Court case against the company that runs the Lord Palmerston pub in Dulwich, south east London, following a dispute over the beer tie. Enterprise took Palmerstone Associates to court, accusing the operator of...
Posted: 30 November 2011 | 14:55
Hospitality provider Keith Prowse has issued a warning to UK businesses to beware of being mis-sold corporate hospitality. Suppliers looking to cash in are already trying to sell hospitality packages for the World Athletics Championships 2017...
Posted: 22 November 2011 | 14:05
Two senior catering officials at Lord's have been suspended while an internal investigation takes place into their conduct. Steve Smith, executive chef at Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC), and catering general manager Mark Harris...
Posted: 08 November 2011 | 13:50
A Cumnock hotel has released a statement in response to the suspected murder of a former employee who was beaten to death, tied to a lamppost and set alight. The body of Stuart Walker was found by passers-by in Caponacre Industrial Estate in Cumnock, Ayrshire, at 4.50am on Saturday morning.
Posted: 24 October 2011 | 15:36
The hotel industry's resilience to fraud is to be tested in a new survey conducted by accountants and business advisers PKF. To be undertaken jointly with the Centre for Counter Fraud Studies (CCFS) at the University of Portsmouth, the survey intends to understand how the industry safeguards itself against the risk of fraud.
Posted: 27 September 2011 | 16:18
The Clink Charity, which is behind the training restaurant for inmates at Her Majesty's Prison High Down in Sutton, Surrey, has teamed up with hospitality education charity Springboard...
Posted: 16 September 2011 | 16:43
Hospitality has the potential to provide the purpose so missing from the lives of many of last week's rampaging youths, says Pride of Britain chief executive Peter Hancock
Posted: 10 August 2011 | 15:48
The British Beer and Pub Association (BBPA) has passed on Metropolitan Police advice on how pubs should deal with the London riots. The BBPA said pubs' first priority should be the safety of staff and customers, even if that meant temporarily shutting the premises.
Posted: 09 August 2011 | 12:29
Three pubs have been fined a total of £2,480 in the past week for not having a TV licence. The owner of the Insole Arms in Cardiff was given the maximum fine of £1,000 while the publicans at the Royal Oak in Llanelli and the Oak Inn in Walsall...
Posted: 13 July 2011 | 11:23
Travelodge has launched an investigation after an apparent security breach on its customer database. The budget hotel chain contacted users of its online service, warning them to be on the lookout for spam emails...
Posted: 24 June 2011 | 14:50
In March the annual Festival Culinaire Bernard Loiseau took place in Mauritius. Christopher Barber, managing director of Leiths Food Solutions, represented the UK as a judge, with Michael North, chef-proprietor of the Michelin-starred Nut Tree in Murcott, Oxfordshire, competing. Barber reports
Posted: 17 June 2011 | 17:53
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