Community-owned pubs will receive an extra £2.2 million in funding from Power to Change, a programme set up to help save local watering holes from closure.
Brewer and pub operator Brewhouse & Kitchen has broken the world record for the largest beer tasting across multiple venues, with 1,264 people tasting three brews simultaneously across 21 different sites.
UK pub operator and brewer Greene King has been fined over £152,000 following "a number of food hygiene failings" discovered at the company's pub the Tredegar Arms in Newport in July last year.
A pub in Somerset has pulled out all the stops for the festive season, constructing a 20ft snowman from over 2,000 empty wine bottles to accompany the inn's gingerbread house display, which was first installed last year.