Energy cost threat to community pubs

The British Institute of Innkeeping (BII) has written to the secretary of state for BEIS and the chancellor highlighting the devastating impact of the energy crisis on community pubs and calling for urgent, essential support from government. Licensees across the UK are dealing with a lethal cocktail of inflationary costs, staff shortages and squeezing of consumer confidence, all while trying to recover from the devasting impact of the pandemic, says the BII....