The decision to pull the plug on the £3.3million Community-Owned Pubs Support Programme promised to help the 39 communities each week who face the loss of their local pub has far-reaching implications for communities across England. BBC Radio 4’s current affairs programme You and Yours enlisted the help of the Plunkett Foundation’s Mike Perry to investigate how the decision will affect real people in real communities who had been counting on the funding to help salvage one of the few remaining focal points of community life.
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