o/t Walkabout Closed

Parent Company yet another in administration :
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/money/articl ... -Inns.html
They must have received their new business rating like everyone else! My business rates have gone up by 43% for next year. Where do the Council/Government think businesses are going to get the money from?
Walking over Skerton Bridge into Lancaster last night there must be twice as many places boarded up as there are open for business. Just a quick calculation shows why the ones that are left are having to pay for the lost revenue from the others
Feel sorry for the residents of the new apartments who have to walk past this every day
Any pub showing Sky, which is charged by rateable value of the premises, must be considering pulling the plug
... had to sit through foreign satellite with radio 5 in the background for the 2nd half 
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/money/articl ... -Inns.html
They must have received their new business rating like everyone else! My business rates have gone up by 43% for next year. Where do the Council/Government think businesses are going to get the money from?
Walking over Skerton Bridge into Lancaster last night there must be twice as many places boarded up as there are open for business. Just a quick calculation shows why the ones that are left are having to pay for the lost revenue from the others

Feel sorry for the residents of the new apartments who have to walk past this every day

Any pub showing Sky, which is charged by rateable value of the premises, must be considering pulling the plug

