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As a vital pub in a village less than five miles from the centre of Sheffield, the Blue Ball Inn has plenty going on.

Whitbread, which operates pub-restaurant brands Beefeater and Brewer’s Fayre, is set to put 126 sites on the market and cut 1,500 UK jobs.

You may know James May from a TV show about cars but he also co-owns a pub and is the face behind a gin brand.

North-east-based pub management group Blackrose Pubs has secured a partnership deal with build a portfolio of more than 100 pubs across the nation.

BrewDog CEO James Watt has hit back at claims the firm’s reforestation project has been “doomed”.

Wells & Co has seen sales reach £62.3m – a rise of £7m versus the previous year.

JW Lees has achieved record sales of £94.3m in the year to March 2024, according to managing director William Lees-Jones.

Suffolk-based business Adnams has appointed Jenny Hanlon as chief executive officer – its first female CEO in its 150-year history.

Licensees of the Cavendish Arms, Cartmel, Cumbria, have received an award to mark their 20th anniversary at the pub, which is the oldest in the village.

The assets of late-night operator Rekom UK were sold to a connected party for £19.5m in a pre-pack administration process.