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THE new name Greene King's Shinfield pub - previously The Black Boy - can now be revealed following a public vote.

When I started out in this game 50 years ago, on a now defunct weekly paper in Peterborough, we used to drink in a city centre pub called the Black Boy & Trumpet. Nobody gave the name a second thought. We had no idea that half a century later we would have been committing a hate crime. How long would it take today before an angry Black Lives Matter mob descended on the boozer, stoved in the windows and tore down the sign swinging over the front door? Greene King brewery is taking no chances. It has announced that four of its pubs are to be renamed due to ‘potentially offensive connotations�...

The Greene King has vowed to rename its pubs called The Black Boy over fears the name has 'racist' connotations - sparking outrage among locals. Two pubs in Suffolk and another in Berkshire all called The Black Boy are set to get new names in the wake of the Black Lives Matter movement, the pub chain has revealed. The Blacks Head in Wirksworth, Derbyshire, is also in the firing line - despite locals insisting the name comes from a bottle of ginger beer. The Black Boy in Shinfield, Berkshire - which dates back to the 16th century - has various theories about where its name came from, includin...

Greene King is set to change the names of two Suffolk pubs because of their racist connotations. The Bury St Edmunds-based group will be holding a public...