2:12pm Monday 12th January 2009
I take issue with your article regarding the Jolly Butcher pub in Kingston Road, Staines (“New lease of life for ‘ghetto’ pub, Staines Guardian, January 8).
If you are going to write such a one-sided article you should check the facts as the pub is not about to reopen, it has in fact been open on appeal since the original hearing.
While I sympathise with the three couples who signed the petition to close a pub which has stood on that site for over 60 years, may I point out they live adjacant to popular bus routes and there is no proof that deposits in your gardens are from customers of the Jolly Butcher.
May I point out this is a pub with local history and has been at the centre of the community for many years, holding charity events in the past including a guide dogs appeal organised by one of the new licence holders.
To describe the Jolly Butcher as a "ghetto pub" is an insult to regular customers, some of whom have been visiting for more than 40 years.
These customers include a former counciller, business owners, public sector workers and it is a pub women feel safe to go in by themselves - not the mark of a "ghetto pub".
Peter Quar-Sanders
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