39 pubs are closing every week in Britain.

Goodness - that is a huge amount of pubs vanishing. Not that I'm a drinker, but when I lived in the UK I loved to pop in with my friends for a bar meal or a game of darts. It was where everyone of all ages congregated - and in the little town I came from the pubs were the hub of the community. Course that was in the days when we didn't set out just to get rat faced (sorry sounding like a grumpy old gran).

Some of them are beautiful buildings too - what a tragedy.

Cause - the big guys (isn't it always the big guys) forcing pubs to buy only their brand of beer at greatly inflated prices.

However a few pub co-ops have started - local people clubbing together to literally save their 'local'.

POWER TO THE PEOPLE - ann


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Posted by Ann Andrews CSP, filed under Tool-box News and posted on 17/02/2010

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