Award-winning Perth nightclubs dealt COVID funding blow

Perth businessman John Bryden has followed the Scottish Government’s COVID rules to the letter.

So he was dismayed to learn an application from the award-winning Loft Nightclub and The Ice Factory for December Nightclub Closure Fund support has been rejected.

Mr Bryden, who had a 40-strong staff payroll before the pandemic struck, yesterday described the Scottish Government’s decision as “a bombshell.”