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Future bleak for Yarmouth pubs

Sun 7th Feb, 2010 • Great Yarmouth Mercury

The future for Great Yarmouth's pubs looks bleak after up to half of the town's drinking holes closed in the last five years, a worried councillor has claimed. Mick Castle, borough councillor for Central and Northgate ward, says that since the general election of 2005 about 30 pubs, bars and clubs have called last orders in Yarmouth - leaving only about 30 remaining. And, in an ironic twist, the Labour councillor blamed his own party's pub smoking ban for being one of the main reasons for the town's drinking den cull. He said the government only originally planned to ban smoking from food pubs while leaving “traditional boozers” alone but that ministers had been persuaded to widen the ban by health organisations.

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