'4,000 bad pubs likely to close'

Up to 4,000 pubs will close in the next year - but they are ones "stuck in the 1980s", offering indifferent drink and food, according to a new guide.

The closures are bad news for staff and customers, but it is high time "bad pubs" went out of business, giving visionary and energetic licensees a chance to open new ones, it argues.
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