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			<title><![CDATA[BII announces apprenticeship initiatives]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[Apprenticeships are set to change the face of the licensed hospitality industry, bringing great opportunities and benefits to employers, existing staff and would-be employees, with Government-funded cash-incentives and financial support to boost on-the-job training and career development.]]></description>
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			<pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 02 Mar 2012 00:00:00 +0000]]></pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Visit Englands's '20.12' campaign launched]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[Letter from Rt Hon Jeremy Hunt MP, Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport, and John Penrose MP, Minister for Tourism]]></description>
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			<pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 06 Feb 2012 00:00:00 +0000]]></pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Scholarship Programme Opens For Scottish Hospitality Industry]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[A programme worth £1 million to improve standards and raise ambition within Scotland’s hospitality industry will be launched at an event in Glasgow today (2nd September 2011).

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			<pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 05 Sep 2011 00:00:00 +0100]]></pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[BII set to celebrate its 30th Anniversary with the help of some friends!]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[2011 will be The British Institute of Innkeeping’s 30th year. To mark thirty years of development in our industry, BII has been celebrating throughout the year with the highlight of these celebrations being the 30th Anniversary Dinner taking place at the Royal Naval College, Greenwich on 24th November 2011. ]]></description>
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			<pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 21 Jul 2011 00:00:00 +0100]]></pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[BII Blog: Andrew Pring, Editor, BIIBUSINESS: MPs Prepare to Deliver Their Pubco Verdict ]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[Pubcos seem to have been drinking in the last chance saloon for a very long time. They’ve been under scrutiny by Parliament since 2004, when a damning report demanded  sweeping operational changes. And they’ve agonized for years over how much, or how little, they need do to get themselves off the hook. Two subsequent select committee reports – in 2009 and 2010 – have been less than impressed by their response. ]]></description>
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			<pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 15 Jul 2011 00:00:00 +0100]]></pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Neil Robertson & Cathie Smith Pay Tribute to Jeremy Allen ]]></title>
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			<pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 23 Jun 2011 00:00:00 +0100]]></pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Machine Income - BII Advises Members]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[BII writes to update and clarify to tenant/lessee members how pub operating companies are treating machine income in rental bids.]]></description>
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			<pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 20 May 2011 00:00:00 +0100]]></pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[BIIAB Scotland Awards its first Advanced Certificate in Licensed Hospitality]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[Kirsty McKeown, Assistant Manager, at the Tayside Hotel in Stanley, Perthshire has become the first person in Scotland to be awarded the BIIAB Advanced Certificate in Licensed Hospitality.  This Certificate has a combination of three units which include “Motivating your team”, “Profit and Loss / Budget Control”, and “Understanding your Market”. People Solutions of Glasgow delivered the training programme.]]></description>
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			<pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 18 May 2011 00:00:00 +0100]]></pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[2011 BII Licensee Of The Year Unveiled – Darran Lingley is Britain’s Top Licensee!]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[Darran Lingley MBII of the Five Bells, Colne Engaine, Essex was crowned 2011 Licensee of the Year at the BII Annual Lunch held in London on Tuesday. ]]></description>
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			<pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 11 May 2011 00:00:00 +0100]]></pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Charity Motor Bike Ride]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[Following last year’s success in raising funds for the Licensed Victuallers’ Schools, we will again be having a charity motor bike ride.]]></description>
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			<pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 04 May 2011 00:00:00 +0100]]></pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[2011 BII Scotland's Annual Dinner & Dance]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[We are delighted to invite you to BII Scotland's Annual Dinner & Dance which will be held at the Grand Central Hotel in Glasgow on 1st May. ]]></description>
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			<pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 13 Apr 2011 00:00:00 +0100]]></pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Budget Blog: Andrew Pring, Editor, BIIBUSINESS]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[If you showed the Budget in your pub this week, it won’t have put much of the old “feel good” factor into customers watching with you. For all the Chancellor’s efforts to claim he was putting fuel in the economy’s tank, it just didn’t come over as much of a boost to anyone. ]]></description>
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			<pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 25 Mar 2011 00:00:00 +0000]]></pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[BII Boss Comments on the Budget ]]></title>
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			<pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 23 Mar 2011 00:00:00 +0000]]></pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[BII Welcomes New Fellow Members - March]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[BII would like to congratulate the following members on reaching Fellow Member (FBII) status recently]]></description>
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			<pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 17 Mar 2011 00:00:00 +0000]]></pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[2011 BII Scotland's Annual Dinner & Dance]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[We are delighted to invite you to BII Scotland's Annual Dinner & Dance which will be held at the Grand Central Hotel in Glasgow on 1st May. ]]></description>
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			<pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 16 Mar 2011 00:00:00 +0000]]></pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Top Beer and Cellar Award Now a Qualified Success]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[Since 2004 over 55,500 people have achieved the BIIAB Award in Beer and Cellar Quality (ABCQ), but now, for the first time, the ABCQ has been nationally accredited by Ofqual on the Qualifications and Credit Framework (QCF), giving every person who now sits the qualification the opportunity to earn credit that will be recognised by employers in all industries.]]></description>
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			<pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 04 Mar 2011 00:00:00 +0000]]></pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Passing of BII Wessex Region Chairman]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[BII is sad to announce that Alec Roud CMBII, Chairman of Wessex Region sadly passed away last Thursday (24th February). ]]></description>
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			<pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 28 Feb 2011 00:00:00 +0000]]></pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Experiencing Scotland Update - February 2011]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[Download the latest update from Experience Scotland ]]></description>
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			<pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 24 Feb 2011 00:00:00 +0000]]></pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Why is alcohol consumption falling? ]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[The BBC have written a report about how alcohol use is falling in the UK, despite media reports that more people are being treated in hospital for excessive drinking. The full report is below. ]]></description>
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			<pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 17 Feb 2011 00:00:00 +0000]]></pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[BII Welcomes New Fellow Members - February ]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[BII would like to congratulate the following members on reaching Fellow Member (FBII) status recently.]]></description>
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			<pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 16 Feb 2011 00:00:00 +0000]]></pubDate>
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