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  • Britain lost one pub a day in 2025

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    One pub a day closed its doors in 2025 as businesses were forced to battle mounting cost pressures and an increasingly heavy tax burden. Fresh analysis from global tax firm Ryan showed 366 pubs were demolished or converted for other uses in the last 12 months. Since 2020, nearly 2,000 pubs have closed for good, [...]

    The City of London has some of the best eating and drinking spots in the UK. Ye Olde Watling on Watling St
  • Sainsbury’s: Business rates ‘nothing more than an unfair tax on shops’

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    Sainsbury’s has urged the government to cut business rates and warned that failure to act could lead to over 17,000 shop closures over the next decade.  It has called for a rate cut of 20 per cent in a bid to revitalise the high street and protect jobs. Not only would this project jobs, the [...]

    Sainsbury's has said cutting business rates could boost the government's tax take.

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