Worrying Times.

There has been much talk in recent days about the threat that the recession poses to the pub trade locally. Although there seems to be no immediate threat to our local village hostelries, there are persisrant reports that at least two pubs not far away could be under imminant threat of closure. Whateve the truth of thyese reports it is undoubtedly the case that one of the major institutions that defines English village life is now under very serious threat of being reduced to a shadow of its former self. Perhaps if large amounts of cash can be found to keep the banks afloat the Government might wish to take steps financial or otherwise, to help save a part of the backbone of community life.