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More than a third of the UK's pubs, restaurants and hotels are expecting to go bust by 2023 due to the spiralling energy and food costs, a survey of 500 businesses in the hospitality sector found.
Janet Gillbanks says her electricity bill is set to jump from £10,000 a year to £55,000.
Pubs across the country are reducing hours and closing as energy bills rise by tens of thousands, with landlords describing it as 'an even bigger crisis than Covid' and the potential end of the British pub.