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Dozens of rallies planned from Plymouth to Aberdeen as £150bn energy price guarantee comes into effect

LANDLORD of over 30 years is fearful he may be driven out of business with his bills already going up from £10,000 to almost £50,000 a year.

A Chichester pub is set to reopen after closing down earlier this year.

FOR hundreds of years, individuals – all male, unpaid and with no requirement for legal training – were rubber-stamped as JPs onto the Commission of the Peace, to run local government and sit in judgement in the lower courts. The only condition was that they owned freehold land of a certain value (latterly £100), and had the approval of the Chancellor (in practice the Lord Lieutenant of Hampshire) who awarded a dedimus potestatem writ (meaning ‘we have given the power’). Lists of h...

The Shoulder of Mutton with, left, entrance to the Shoulders yard, later the beer garden A PUB which witnessed the modern history of Bradford is the Shoulder of Mutton in Kirkgate, writes DR PAUL JENNINGS in the latest of his articles on old pubs in the city: John Wilson was trading as a butcher there in the 1790s and by 1803 had also acquired a licence, appropriately as the Shoulder of Mutton. In 1825 his daughter Elizabeth rebuilt the premises as we see them today, a fact commemorated by ...