Rolling coverage of the latest economic and financial newsHere’s a chart from Altus Group, showing how the number of pubs in England and Wales has fallen steadily over the last five years.Pubs which have ‘vanished’ from the communities that they once served have either been demolished or converted into other types of use such as homes, offices or even day nurseries with a total of 2,074 being lost for good in just the last 5 years, Altus say. Continue reading...