A village pub has been rescued from a potential long-term closure after Shipstone's and the Reunion Pub Company stepped in. The Four Bells Inn, in Woodborough, had a turbulent time during the pandemic and a spark of hope from a new landlady was short-lived when she threw the towel in after six months.
The mock Tudor pub, in Main Street, closed at the end of September. However, this week the doors opened once again. It marks the second pub for the locally-owned pub company, which took over the Johnson Arms in Dunkirk in July.
Operations director Nick Dunleavy said: "It's been closed for three weeks. Like the Jono it's just such a beautiful historic pub set in an amazing village and it would have been a shame to see it closed again. The brewery gave us a ring and asked us if we wanted to do it and we said what's going to happen otherwise and it wasn't good so we thought right let's give it a go.
