Can you tell me where your pub is? If it's anywhere near I'd like to visit, I run a club in the West Mid's and also have a twice weekly e.mail newsletter that reaches much of the UK and even Australia & USA, send me more details and I'll gladly give your place a plug, contact me, Desi, on crc778@aol.com

When I first came to live here in The Black Country there were around 60 pubs in this area, all doing good trade, over 40 have gone in recent years. Sadly I think the breweries are deliberately running pubs down by hiring untrained tenants. There is some law apparently that a Brewery can't close a pub and sell it off i.e sell the land, if there isn 't another pub within a certain distance, think this might be one & a half miles. And many breeweries now want to sell off a lot of their pubs as private land and only delelop large super pubs. To get round the egulations they run certain pubs into the ground by taking on incompetent managers, charging them too much for the beer, and eventually theu can show the pub is no longer a going concern and they can then close it. Pubs are really the ONLY part of British culture left, it amazes me that orgs like CAMRA don't use their influence to try to stop this