Katherine Price

The company that owns the Real Greek and Franco Manca restaurant businesses will “proceed cautiously” in the face of cost pressures over the next year.

Pasta restaurant group Bancone has closed its crowdfunding campaign having raised £911,188 from 941 investors, smashing its target of £700,000.

Dos tapas restaurant in Broadstairs, Kent, a sister site to Michelin-starred Stark, is to close by the end of the year.

The government has announced details for a new law which will require venues to take steps to improve public safety, including scaling up preparedness for, and protection from, terrorist attacks.