A Bristol pub has opened on the day of the Queen's Funeral - but as a food bank instead of a sports bar. The Hall Pass bar in the city centre has free essential food for anyone who needs it until 8pm today - Monday, September 19 - in response to the Queen's Funeral being a bank holiday.
Faced with either not opening at all or closing for some of the day, boss Mark Harris decided to do something a bit different, and set up a pop-up foodbank in the Small Street bar and venue. The pub boss said he wanted to do something because he'd heard some of the city's foodbanks were closing - along with many of the supermarkets and shops for the sombre bank holiday.
Mr Harris opened the foodbank at 3pm today, Monday, and donated the first £100 of food, but was keen for people to come in and donate more, as well as anyone who needed food to come in and take what they needed.
