A popular village restaurant and bar will be closing its doors for good after two years next month. Paul Taylor, who owns the Kingfisher Lodge in Sibthorpe, has announced "with a heavy heart and great sadness" that his business will shut permanently on February 6.
Mr Taylor said: "We have just been there two years and spent £45,000 on it and made it totally different to how we first started out, and we had a massive following from all the local people and all the fisherman. We did 70s nights and had live bands on, we had bouncy castles to keep the kids entertained, we had comedians, marine fish, then about 10 months ago we started pot painting activities."
Explaining the reason for the closure, he added: "The annoying part is that there are all these restaurants shutting down because they can't afford the electric bill, they can't afford this, can't afford that. Yet we were absolutely fine and had no problems in paying things and were making a good income out of it, but we were shut down through someone deciding that they don't want to renew the lease."
