Why Jason Atherton's sommelier is opening a community-owned pub

In part two of our look at community-owned pubs, Ben Winstanley gets the lowdown on one such outlet and why the owners have chosen now to hand the lease to former Jason Atherton sommelier, Boris Poliakov

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