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Former pubs minister Bob Neill accuses Enterprise Inns of "underhand behaviour"

Former pubs minister Bob Neill has accused Enterprise Inns of deliberately “running down its estate” after it sold the Porcupine pub in Bromley to supermarket chain Lidl.

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