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In the past 12 months, approximately 2,000 British pubs have called last orders for the final time - casualties of what the British Beer & Pub Association acknowledges is an accelerating decline (1,409 pubs shut in 2007; 400 in 2006). The rate of closures is so severe that one British MP, Liberal Democrat Bob Russell, believes that government intervention is necessary to save it.
Writer: Andrew Mueller
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