Over the past year, 52 pubs a week went out of business and 24,000 jobs were lost due to that, the Times reports.

Almost 2,400 pubs and bars have vanished from villages and towns in the past 12 months, according to research for the British Beer & Pub Association (BBPA). Local pubs serving small communities have been the worst hit, the association said.

The number of closures represents the steepest rate of decline since records began in 1990 and has risen by a third compared with the same period last year, when 36 pubs were closing every week.

A preference for drinking more cheaply at home, rather than going out, is thought to have contributed to closures.

When people don’t have money to drink in a pub any more, then things have gone really, really bad.

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