A brilliant quote in the FT from the head of Peach Inns:

“Much worse is the torture of being forced to dismantle, inch by inch, everything that makes us hospitable. Every late-announced, badly communicated, ill-considered restriction is another sword-cut to hospitality’s body, until we are left like Monty Python’s Black Knight, limbless and impotent, roaring that we can still fight on, even when it’s so hopeless it’s funny."

Hopefully lobbying from the Campaign for Pubs, CAMRA, BBPA, Hospitality UK, BII and other hospitality groups will continue to bring the plight of wet-led pubs like ours to the fore and the trading restrictions are lifted sooner rather than later.