date:Aug 13, 2014
A campaign has been launched in the UK by the Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA) imploring the government to tighten a legal loophole which allows pubs to be knocked down and replaced by supermarkets without planning permission.
The rate of closure stands at 31 per week, having risen from 26 in March 2013, and 28 as of December 2013.
In the past six months alone 3 per cent of the the UKs suburban pubs have gone under the hammer.
CAMRA has created the Pubs Matter campaign which calls on the 55,000