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> Report: British pubs closing at nearly 30 a week
>
>
> LONDON (AP) - An industry group says nearly 30 pubs closed every week
> in Britain last year because of high costs, economic worries and the
> effects of a smoking ban.
>
> The British Beer & Pub Association says 1,409 pubs closed in 2007,
> compared with 216 in 2006 and 102 the year before that.
>
> The impact was greatest in cities, where the group estimated that 2%
> of pubs closed last year. Association spokesman Neil Williams says
> city pubs could not provide comfortable areas for smokers as rural
> pubs have done.
>
> Williams said Friday that pubs are responding by campaigning for lower
> beer taxes and by promoting the traditional British pub, which dates
> back centuries. But he says the high rate of closures is unlikely to
> fall while current economic strains persist.
>
>
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>
> Many Brits who have holidayed numerous times in the US say they can
> no longer stand to drink the customary piss warm beer served in UK
> pubs and thats the main reason they no longer frequent them They
> prefer to purchase their beer at market and cool it in the home
> frige. Sounds reasonable to me.

> Report: British pubs closing at nearly 30 a week
>
>
> LONDON (AP) - An industry group says nearly 30 pubs closed every week
> in Britain last year because of high costs, economic worries and the
> effects of a smoking ban.
>
> The British Beer & Pub Association says 1,409 pubs closed in 2007,
> compared with 216 in 2006 and 102 the year before that.
>
> The impact was greatest in cities, where the group estimated that 2%
> of pubs closed last year. Association spokesman Neil Williams says
> city pubs could not provide comfortable areas for smokers as rural
> pubs have done.
>
> Williams said Friday that pubs are responding by campaigning for lower
> beer taxes and by promoting the traditional British pub, which dates
> back centuries. But he says the high rate of closures is unlikely to
> fall while current economic strains persist.
>
>
> *******************
>
> Many Brits who have holidayed numerous times in the US say they can
> no longer stand to drink the customary piss warm beer served in UK
> pubs and thats the main reason they no longer frequent them They
> prefer to purchase their beer at market and cool it in the home
> frige. Sounds reasonable to me.

> Report: British pubs closing at nearly 30 a week
>
>
> LONDON (AP) - An industry group says nearly 30 pubs closed every week
> in Britain last year because of high costs, economic worries and the
> effects of a smoking ban.
>
> The British Beer & Pub Association says 1,409 pubs closed in 2007,
> compared with 216 in 2006 and 102 the year before that.
>
> The impact was greatest in cities, where the group estimated that 2%
> of pubs closed last year. Association spokesman Neil Williams says
> city pubs could not provide comfortable areas for smokers as rural
> pubs have done.
>
> Williams said Friday that pubs are responding by campaigning for lower
> beer taxes and by promoting the traditional British pub, which dates
> back centuries. But he says the high rate of closures is unlikely to
> fall while current economic strains persist.
>
>
> *******************
>
> Many Brits who have holidayed numerous times in the US say they can
> no longer stand to drink the customary piss warm beer served in UK
> pubs and thats the main reason they no longer frequent them They
> prefer to purchase their beer at market and cool it in the home
> frige. Sounds reasonable to me.

> 4square wrote:
>> Report: British pubs closing at nearly 30 a week
>>
>>
>> LONDON (AP) - An industry group says nearly 30 pubs closed every week
>> in Britain last year because of high costs, economic worries and the
>> effects of a smoking ban.
>>
>> The British Beer & Pub Association says 1,409 pubs closed in 2007,
>> compared with 216 in 2006 and 102 the year before that.
>>
>> The impact was greatest in cities, where the group estimated that 2%
>> of pubs closed last year. Association spokesman Neil Williams says
>> city pubs could not provide comfortable areas for smokers as rural
>> pubs have done.
>>
>> Williams said Friday that pubs are responding by campaigning for lower
>> beer taxes and by promoting the traditional British pub, which dates
>> back centuries. But he says the high rate of closures is unlikely to
>> fall while current economic strains persist.
>>
>>
>> *******************
>>
>> Many Brits who have holidayed numerous times in the US say they can
>> no longer stand to drink the customary piss warm beer served in UK
>> pubs and thats the main reason they no longer frequent them They
>> prefer to purchase their beer at market and cool it in the home
>> frige. Sounds reasonable to me.