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Aug 25, 2023 · When the Crown and Anchor pub in Llanidloes in mid-Wales was built, there was a different Charles on the throne, America was a British colony and France still had a king.
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Jun 18, 2024 · England and Wales saw 239 pubs closing doors in the first quarter of 2024, averaging 80 closures monthly; Experts have expressed concern over closures, highlighting community impact and job...
Jul 4, 2022 · The number of pubs in England and Wales continues to fall, hitting its lowest level on record, according to new research. There were 39,970 pubs in June, down by more than 7,000 since 2012, said...
Nov 30, 2022 · The Five Bells Inn in Devon, a highly regarded gastropub, has recently announced its closure due to “lockdowns and the economic downturns they caused”. Nationwide pub chain Wetherspoons hasn’t...
- Lots of Pubs Have Already Closed
- People Are Drinking Less
- They’Re Also Drinking Differently
- We Could Cut Taxes
- Pubs Could Change
- The UK Could Borrow Others’ Ideas
The problem is real. The new data, collected from Camra’s WhatPub online guide shows, that 460 pubs closed between July and December, with 515 closing in the first half of 2017. That’s actually down from the peak of the bad years, but things have been declining for decades. There were 67,800 pubs in Britain in 1982, and 60,100 as recently as 2002. ...
Things are changing. Gradually, ONS data is showing that people are consuming less alcohol on the whole, and young people are in the vanguard: young people aged 16 to 24 years are less likely to drink than any other age group. There’s only so much soda and lime you can sell – and if young people aren’t developing the habit, they’re unlikely to beco...
People evidently do still drink, but they’re leaning increasingly towards buying their booze in supermarkets and off licences. In 2014, off-trade outstripped on-trade (pubs, clubs and restaurants) for the first time. Cans in shops are increasingly affordable, relative to income, while pints in pubs are going the other way. But when people do go to ...
It can’t hurt. Camra is open to a range of options for a “new deal” for pubs. “This could include implementing the Australian model of having a lower rate of duty for beer sold in pubs, radically changing the business rates system, or charging a lower rate of VAT for pubs or, even better, all three,” says the chairman. Tax cuts aren’t likely to cha...
We have an idea in our head of what a British pub is like, but that has already changed – very few people want to bring back smoking, for example, or cock-fighting– and could change again. Couldn’t we move towards a nibbles-and-halves model like the continent? Perhaps not – but just as bookshops have integrated coffee into their business model, pub...
The Irish pubin Ireland has a similar relationship to society as the British pub in Britain, but they’ve taken different steps to protect them, including barring sale of alcohol in shops after 10pm. Scotland is already about become the first place on earth to introduce minimum alcohol pricing, with Walesto follow. This will bump up the cost of the ...
May 10, 2024 · Heineken, the brewer that owns 2,400 pubs in the UK through its Star Pubs & Bars arm, is reopening 62 that closed in recent years and investing £40mn on this and other refurbishments, such as...
Oct 8, 2023 · The Blue Eyed Maid in Borough recently closed its doors to drinkers. More pubs closed in London in the first six months of this year than anywhere else in England, a study has found. The capital...
