New restrictions including the Government’s controversial 10pm curfew don’t appear to have dampened drinkers’ enthusiasm for visiting pubs, according to new research.
After almost a week of 10pm closure, The Morning Advertiser (MA) quizzed its readers on what steps they’d been taking to enforce the Government’s curfew.
Heineken's pub arm pledged more than £600,000 to reopening a Dundee pub which has been closed for the last four years while Oxfordshire-based Hook Norton Brewery has put wheels in motion at a 17th century coaching inn.
The hospitality sector has seen just 5.18% of cases recorded by Public Health England (PHE) data from the week pubs opened (commencing 9 July – week 28).
Westminster City Council has revealed temporary measures to enable al fresco dining and hospitality across areas including Soho, Covent Garden, and Chinatown will continue for an extra month.
There are calls from local government leaders across the country to end the 10pm hospitality curfew because it is causing more problems than it is supposed to solve.
Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak announced a raft of measures on Government-backed loan schemes as part of his Winter Economy Plan earlier this week (Thursday 24 September).
