Mystery surrounds the future of a prominent pub in Beeston which local businesses believe to have suddenly closed. The Cricketers has served the local community for more than 55 years - but according to local residents and business managers the pub appears to have shut its doors, and it's unclear why.
The Wollaton Road venue has been open since around 1965 but has changed hands numerous times in recent years, facing periods of closure while it searched for a new tenant. Now neighbouring businesses say the establishment is thought to have closed again.
Mark Griffiths, 41, who manages the Commercial Inn, opposite The Cricketers, said: "It's probably been closed around three to four weeks. He [the former tenant] popped in to say he was leaving the week before but he didn't say why.
