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Newcastle Herald
Newcastle Herald
National
Max McKinney

Battered bars in a fight for survival

HARD TIMES: Jackson Dunlap, of Saints Bar, is leading the push for hospitality businesses to receive some form of financial assistance. Picture: Max Mason-Hubers

THEIR stories are the same - hundreds of cancelled bookings, revenue down as much as 90 per cent, a struggle to offer staff shifts and ongoing worries about how their business will survive.

And with little sign of trade improving, some of the city's hospitality businesses - an industry decimated by this recent COVID outbreak - have banded together to plea for government support.

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