#Pubs

Letters: Ian Williamson and Susan Gregory respond to an article by Sam Wollaston on pub closures and share experiences in their own communities

The English have their green and pleasant land. The Irish, traditionally, have the land of saints and scholars. One-nil to the Irish, on the ethno-cliché front, at least. But whatever happened to that

The Wolverhampton-based pub giant saw shares slide after revealing stalling sales.

For 400 years, The Hare and Hounds in Bowland Bridge offered a warm welcome to locals and travellers. Then the rent doubled. With two pubs a day closing in England and Wales, can the community save this 17th-century gem?

There are two “Grantas” in the life of the thinking man or woman. There is Granta, the leading literary journal in the Anglophone world, which published the early William Empson, and is now helmed by

It came as the firm, which has 794 managed pubs and 21 franchise sites, revealed slower sales growth over the latest quarter.

From Independent RSS Feed: Shock number of British pubs closing every day as tax and costs pile pressure on sector

From Independent RSS Feed: World Cup could give struggling UK pubs a £275m boost if England reach final

The British Beer and Pub Association says 161 pubs have closed in the first three months of this year.

From Independent RSS Feed: Two British pubs closing every day as tax and cost pressures devastate hospitality sector

From Independent RSS Feed: Around two pubs in Britain closing each day after tax hikes, figures suggest

Star Pubs operation runs 2,350 sites across the UK, and a substantial investment at these venues has now been announced

From Independent RSS Feed: Heineken to invest £44.5m in hundreds of pubs creating 850 jobs

From Independent RSS Feed: Heineken plans huge investment in hundreds of UK pubs ahead of World Cup

The Blue Bell was built in 1794, and there are records of it feeding and watering – mostly watering – the agricultural workers of Stoke Ferry and environs until the turn of the 21st century. Unfortuna

Devon is full of little villages, snug in their combes, carefully thatched, held apart from the passing of time by planning laws and a lack of public transport. Newton Abbot is not one of them. It is