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August 2025

Over the Bank Holiday weekend Chris and Steve Dilworth celebrated 38 years at the Swan with Two Necks in Pendleton. The pub was the national CAMRA Pub of the Year in 2014.

Planning permission has been granted for the Hollytree Tap in Blackburn despite several objections objections over noise, traffic, litter and potential rodent infestation (there are several several takeaways on the same block of shops!).

The King William between Turton and Bromley Cross has now reopened with a Mediterranean-inspired twist of food and drinks. Real ale is supplied by Thwaites.

The ongoing saga that that is it the illegally demolished Rose Bowl in Hurst Green continues after Donelan Trading Ltd missed the latest deadline to rebuild the pub. Due to legal proceedings Ribble Valley Borough Council cannot make a comment and it's not clear when the case will go back before the High Court.

July 2025

Planning permission has been granted to turn the Gate Street Bar and Grill (previously The Moorgate) near Ewood Park in Blackburn into a five-bedroomed house. Long term owners Kirsty & Bob have had many highs and lows with the freehold pub and now will be focusing on family life. It has traditionally been a popular watering hole for Rovers fans on matchdays and the final day of 30th August will coincide with a home game.

Several pubs in East Lancs feature in the (national newspaper) Telegraph's 500 best pubs guide.

The Admiral Lord Rodney, Colne, Victoria Hotel, Great Harwood, Swan with Two Necks, Pendleton, Crooked Billet, Worsthorne, New Inn, Clitheroe, Red Lion, Earby all made the list.

The current Rossendale Area Pub of the Year, the Hop Micro Bar in Rawtenstall, which opened in 2016, has been listed for sale by Black Brokers. £139,995. It will continue trading until sold.

Giuseppe's Restaurant and Bar in Turton has be bought by Joe McLeod, a well known local chef, and reopened as a gastropub serving cask ales, wine and upmarket food. The pub is called The Spread Eagle by McLeod 9 which incorporates the original name of the pub.

An application has been submitted to convert the previously closed Railway Hotel in Huncoat into a community hub and office space.

June 2025

The King William in Turton has new owners and will reopen in the next few months. Claire and Alberto Halluni who have two Italian restaurants in the Greater Manchester area do not plan to change it to a restaurant but for it to a be pub 'with Italian twist'.

Investors and villagers came together to celebrate 10 years of the Dog Inn in Belthorn, becoming a community owned pub after closing the previous year. It reopened later that year after extensive refurbishment adding a coffee shop, essentials shop, community meeting room and what has become a very popular restaurant.

The Pendle Inn, in Barley, nestled below Pendle Hill, has been sold by Fleurets. It has been purchased by the Dobriere pub group, which operates 40 pubs across the Midlands and north of England.

May 2025

The Hare & Hounds in Clayton-le-Moors closed on 11th May despite the efforts from campaigners to keep the pub going. A few months earlier Thwaites had put it up for sale after saying it had spent several years “trying to make the site more profitable" and although it became busier, profits did not increase significantly enough to keep it open.

April 2025

An application has been submitted to open a micropub, the Hollytree Tap, in the Livsey area of Blackburn

March 2025

The Railway Hotel in Huncoat has closed due to financial losses, rising costs and declining footfall. It was previously listed for sale from April 2020 to June 2022 and again in November 2024 but no luck in finding a buyer.

January 2025

The King William in Turton has closed sadly due to Vicky's health taking a downward spiral. We wish her the best for the future and hope the pub will reopen soon.