The cost of fish and chips being twice as much - in my experience - at the coast as what I can get in land is something which I have never been able to understand. It is actually landed in Whitby, ie no transport costs so, if anything, it should be cheaper.

Cost of beer in pubs, again, usually at the coast, is more expensive when it is already too expensive inland. When supermarkets are selling it so cheap is it any wonder that people are staying in and drinking more at home? One thing I can't really understand is the Weatherspoons chain, how can they sell it so much cheaper than the rest? It's almost as low as club prices. If they can do it why can't other chains? Sam Smiths pubs sell cheaper ale - again club prices - and although most would not drink Sam Smiths given a choice, surley there brewing costs are no different to that of other breweries?

I don't think the number of pubs closing down has much to do with the smoking ban, it's the cost of the beer and yet when less customers come through the door they keep on putting the prices up. Madness.