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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Holly Williams

Six hospitality firms a day could close without rates help, warns trade group

More than 2,000 pubs, restaurants and hotels could shut their doors this year unless the Government makes sector-wide changes to ‘staggering’ incoming increases in business rate bills, UK Hospitality has warned (Alamy/PA) -

More than 2,000 pubs, restaurants and hotels could shut their doors this year unless the Government makes sector-wide changes to “staggering” incoming business rate increases, UK Hospitality has warned.

The trade body has joined the chorus of calls from industry figures for relief set to be announced for pubs to be extended across the sector.

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