I haven't checked any figures but I have opened my eyes. The Victorian centre is so quiet it has apparently become haunted.
Go to any pub in town at a time that isn't Saturday night and you'll feel rather lonely, I thought there was twice as many people in the Keys on Monday but then realised i had glanced at a mirror ££$
Do you remember the good old days before the ghost town?
We danced and sang, and the music played in a de boomtown
Read this yesterday. ( Lots of figures)
Across the UK, people are spending more money on gin and craft beer, and there are more breweries open today than there were in the 1930s.
But 18 pubs across the country closed every week in the second half of 2017, according to The Campaign for Real Ale (Camra).
So how are UK drinking habits changing? What are the UK's favourite drinks and how often are adults drinking?
The decline has been blamed on a number of reasons - high taxes on pints, the smoking ban, the price of food and drink going up, and the 2008 recession meaning that consumers had less to spend in their local.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-43492043
