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Worthing pub blames smoking ban for closure
3:46pm Wednesday 19th March 2008
Comments (27)A pub is closing down on Easter Monday due to falling trade following the ban on smoking.
Yates Wine Lodge, in Worthing, will shut after last orders at the end of the evening session.
The bar, in Chapel Road, is one of several Yates ear-marked for closure around the country.
The branches in Brighton and Hastings are expected to stay open for business.
Owners, the Laurel Pub Company, which owns more than 400 pubs and restaurants nationwide, said: "We are closing due to the affect of the smoking ban and difficult trading conditions."
The company says it will be helping the 12 staff to find new jobs. The spokesman said: "Where possible we try to re-locate our staff."
The firm, based in Bedfordshire, declined to give information about how many of its Yates bars are closing.
The Yates in Worthing, which opened in 1999, is one of many pubs and bars around the country which have become victims of a massive reduction in takings since the smoking ban was introduced in July last year.
The Argus has reported landlords reporting takings dropping by £1,000 a week in some pubs. Littlehampton appears to have been one of the worst hit areas with five pubs being forced to shut.
A survey by the Campaign for Real Ale revealed 56 pubs a month are closing across the country.
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Kickboxer, Worthing says...
4:02pm Wed 19 Mar 08
Can't argue with that dirk, says...
4:09pm Wed 19 Mar 08
Vermin, King Vermin says...
4:13pm Wed 19 Mar 08
Flat Foot Soozie, Brunswick Square says...
4:31pm Wed 19 Mar 08
Kickboxer wrote:I didn't comment on Yates's Lodges.
I agree with soozie, any Yates' customer that sits on my house roof making a racket with all that squawking is very likely to get its beer's head blown of with a rifle. (yes I am that accurate with a cork rifle and telepathetic sight I can hit a Yates' head at 0.025 metres away)
But, yes, they are awful places.
Liz, Worthing says...
4:43pm Wed 19 Mar 08
John Rambo, Worthing says...
5:24pm Wed 19 Mar 08
sm, says...
6:24pm Wed 19 Mar 08
So it'll be NOTHING to do with the crap beer, ATROCIOUS food, chav-filled, noisy, typical Yates's punch-up-pre-'club' pile of toss that it is then ?
No. blame the smoking ban.
Bill C, uk says...
8:34pm Wed 19 Mar 08
When all these pubs are closed, chav-filled or not, where do you expect to do your socialising? Yes - the smoking ban is having a massive impact. A ban based on the lies of passive smoking. Are you prepared to let New Labour dictate to you about one of your pleasures in life. Well after the last budget, they have already started with the drinkers and drivers. Just think before you start abusing the chavs, because you toffs are next in the firing line now.
gazza, worthing says...
9:14pm Wed 19 Mar 08
mandyv, banitland says...
9:30pm Wed 19 Mar 08
Remember the saying - they came for the smokers, but I did not care, I was not a smoker ect.
cleanairquality blogspot com/
Air quality testing by Johns Hopkins University, the American Cancer Society, a Minnesota Environmental Health Department, and various researchers whose testing and report was peer reviewed and published in the esteemed British Medical Journal.prove that secondhand smoke is 2.6 - 25,000 times SAFER than occupational (OSHA) workplace regulations:
8th August 2006 the HSE in the document OC 255/16 Paragraph 14
" HSE cannot produce epidemiological evidence to link levels of exposure to second hand smoke to the raised risk of contacting specific diseases".
Then the only chips that will be allowed in the future, are the ones the government will use to control the masses.
freedom2choose info for tolerant non-smokers and smokers alike
"Political correctness does not legislate tolerance; it only organizes hatred"
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Oh heck, Brighton says...
11:05pm Wed 19 Mar 08
graham, hove says...
7:47am Thu 20 Mar 08
255/16 Paragraph 14
...and of course you won't have selected a paragraph in isolation that really in effect says absolutely nothing to support your point would you MandyV?
So you've scrabbled around for evidence to support your views and come up with nowt. do you also scrabble around the British Drivers Association website to attempt to debunk global warming? you poor soul...
Dave, Wivelsfield says...
9:36am Thu 20 Mar 08
No the problem is that pubs in their new trendy format have already passed their sell by date, cheap supermarket booze, every type of sports coverage on tv, a must work long hours culture and and and etc simply mean that as pubs close the chavs (as the above so eloquently put it) are forced into fewer and fewer pubs just alienating more and more regulars who leave. Its a downhill spiral. Give us back proper pubs without the added crap and guess what will happen.
(Now lets get a few Weatherspoons closed - ever been in one at lunchtime. Full of the unemployable, unwashed and uneducated, yet they can all make their £1.80 pint of guiness last 2 hours, skilled at something)
Martin, Hove says...
10:00am Thu 20 Mar 08
graham wrote:Graham, the hazards of passive smoking are almost entirely fictitious. If you don't know that then I'm afraid you don't know much.
255/16 Paragraph 14...and of course you won't have selected a paragraph in isolation that really in effect says absolutely nothing to support your point would you MandyV? So you've scrabbled around for evidence to support your views and come up with nowt. do you also scrabble around the British Drivers Association website to attempt to debunk global warming? you poor soul...
Simon, Shoreham says...
10:15am Thu 20 Mar 08
Martin wrote:You say that Martin, but as a non-dope smoking student, how is it that when I've been to parties where a lot of puffing has taken place, I feel mildly stoned? Surely if the chemicals in the drugs can affect me, the chemicals present in cigarette smoke can also?
graham wrote:Graham, the hazards of passive smoking are almost entirely fictitious. If you don't know that then I'm afraid you don't know much.255/16 Paragraph 14...and of course you won't have selected a paragraph in isolation that really in effect says absolutely nothing to support your point would you MandyV? So you've scrabbled around for evidence to support your views and come up with nowt. do you also scrabble around the British Drivers Association website to attempt to debunk global warming? you poor soul...
Flat foot soozie, brunswick square says...
10:48am Thu 20 Mar 08
Flat Foot Soozie wrote:imposter again ,sod off kickboxer
Kickboxer wrote: I agree with soozie, any Yates' customer that sits on my house roof making a racket with all that squawking is very likely to get its beer's head blown of with a rifle. (yes I am that accurate with a cork rifle and telepathetic sight I can hit a Yates' head at 0.025 metres away)I didn't comment on Yates's Lodges. But, yes, they are awful places.
JJ, Worthing says...
11:15am Thu 20 Mar 08
What a stupid comment, yes these pubs are often full of chavs and a bit naff but close all those and there will be little left!
OLD BOY, worthing says...
12:25pm Thu 20 Mar 08
Nikki Edwards, worthing says...
5:02pm Thu 20 Mar 08
GClad, GC says...
5:09pm Thu 20 Mar 08
Martin wrote:Who cares whether it´s fictitious or not! It stinks! And so do smokers! But at least they don´t make me stink anymore when I want to go out for a beer...
graham wrote:Graham, the hazards of passive smoking are almost entirely fictitious. If you don't know that then I'm afraid you don't know much.
255/16 Paragraph 14...and of course you won't have selected a paragraph in isolation that really in effect says absolutely nothing to support your point would you MandyV? So you've scrabbled around for evidence to support your views and come up with nowt. do you also scrabble around the British Drivers Association website to attempt to debunk global warming? you poor soul...
JOHNBOY, worthing says...
6:57pm Thu 20 Mar 08
Only me, burgess Hill says...
10:14pm Thu 20 Mar 08
Where will these underclass choose to drink instead? They could be coming to a pub near you soon.....!
Flat Foot Soozie, Brunswick Square says...
10:24am Fri 21 Mar 08
Flat foot soozie wrote:That was again an impostor.
Flat Foot Soozie wrote:imposter again ,sod off kickboxer
Kickboxer wrote: I agree with soozie, any Yates' customer that sits on my house roof making a racket with all that squawking is very likely to get its beer's head blown of with a rifle. (yes I am that accurate with a cork rifle and telepathetic sight I can hit a Yates' head at 0.025 metres away)I didn't comment on Yates's Lodges. But, yes, they are awful places.
Beats me why these online crews are obsessed by me.
Paul Farmer, Worthing says...
10:20am Thu 27 Mar 08
shoggoth, Darlington says...
7:46pm Fri 4 Apr 08
bryan howard montagu, says...
11:41pm Sat 5 Apr 08
I hope the staff can all get new jobs.
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