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Next year’s Good Pub Guide cancelled due to pandemic

TIME has been called on next year’s Good Pub Guide.

Publishers “very reluctantly” pulled the plug on the 2022 edition after the pandemic stopped pub inspections.

It’s the first time in 40 years the boozers’ bible, which features 5,000 meticulously researched British pubs, has had to throw in the bar towel.

Marc Hornby, co-owner of the 458-year-old Virgins and Castle in Kenilworth, Warks, was “over the moon” to make the 2021 guide. He said: “It’s a big shame that there won’t be a 2022 guide. Pubs have gone through a really tough time and the recognition of The Good Pub Guide is an enormous boost.”

An Ebury Publishing spokesman said its website will continue to support the industry. More than 2,000 of Britain’s 40,000 pubs are said to have been lost to the pandemic. The Good Pub Guide, intended to be a one-off, was started by editor Alisdair Aird using a portable typewriter in his car.