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NEWS Former Caledonian Brewing director Martin Kellaway and former Tetley head brewer Ian Smith have teamed up to open their own brewery - the WharfeBank Brewery. morningadvertiser.co.uk According to the M&C Report, the Orchid Group has revealed ambitions to reach an estate of 500 pubs and plans to double its Bar Room Bar portfolio. The first sites of the proposed 60-strong pub restaurant expansion by Whitbread have been unveiled. The company will be opening two new-build Table Table restaurants in Barnsley and York in April. morningadvertiser.co.uk The Donnington Brewery in Stow-on-the-Wold has been named the UK's "Brewery of the Year" by the 2010 edition of the Good Pub Guide. thepublican.com Jamie Oliver has announced that he is to expand his high street restaurant chain Jamie's Italian with a new outlet planned for Bristol in 2011. caterersearch.com According to the Mail on Sunday, Sky is said to want to link up with the BBC and ITV to offer the World Cup in 3D. Abode Hotels, the firm founded...

The El Bulli restaurant, in the town of Roses, north of Barcelona, winner of the World's 50 Best Restaurants awards a record five times, is to close for good, according to The Independent on Sunday The 'celebrity' London members' club, Paramount, has struck a deal with creditors to stave off administration. The club, whose shareholders include Graham Norton and Stephen Fry, narrowly avoided collapse by wiping out 70% of its £1.4m debt after creditors agreed to a company voluntary arrangement (CVA). The Sunday Times JD Wetherspoon is backing plans to move the UK into the Continental time zone - in the hope that longer, lighter evenings will encourage increased trade. Mail on Sunday According to the M&C Report, James Horler, the former chief executive of La Tasca, has thrown his hat in the ring to buy the tapas casual dining business after news broke that a formal sale process is to be launched. The High Court has rejected PPL's attempt to block payback of...

Wentworth MP and Minister for Housing and Planning, John Healey, has reportedly been handed his dream job in government - Minister for Pubs. Press over the weekend suggested that Healey had been appointed to aid the UK's 53,000 recession hit pubs. M&C Report According to a survey conducted by the Sunday Mirror, pubs are charging up to 60p more for a soft drink than a pint of beer. The survey revealed that a pint of standard bitter is cheaper than an equivalent amount of non-alcoholic drink such as cola and lemonade in almost half of Britain's pubs. Guy Ritchie is opening a British pub in New York in a move that will help him to maintain ties with his children. It is thought that Ritchie will recreate his London pub, The Punch Bowl, in New York's Tribeca area. Mail On Sunday The UK could be in line for its most blistering economic recovery in almost 40 years, according to an authoritative measure from...