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UK losing five nightclubs per week as industry demands “immediate intervention”

made a push for government action after finding that over 30 per cent of nightclubs in the UK were forced to close in 2023.Between March 2020 and December 2023, 396 nightclubs were forced to close permanently across the UK – a blow accounting for 31 per cent of the total businesses within the country.Once again, those worst impacted were the independent businesses, as tenanted businesses declined from 225 to 193 between December 2020 and December 2023 and managed businesses went down from 37 to 29 during the same period.Other findings emerged back in January last year when NTIA shared that one-third of UK nightclubs closed by the end of 2022, then again in August, when they revealed that over 100 independent nightclubs across the UK had closed down over the past year.More recently, at the start of the year the results were shared for 2023 – revealing a “disaster” that hit grassroots music venues across the 12 months.Among the key findings into their “most challenging year”, it has been reported that last year saw 125 UK venues abandon live music and that over half of them had shut entirely – including the legendary Moles in Bath.
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Marco Pierre White's son jailed after pleading guilty to 14 offences after crime spree
READ NEXT: Marco Pierre White Jr charged with possessing heroin in Costa coffeeThe court heard how he stole clothes worth £2,496 from posh equestrian shop Wadswick Country Store, racially abused a Tesco Express security guard and shoplifted spirits from a branch of Waitrose.He also nicked a Mulberry credit card holder, Co-op dishwasher tablets, Raybans, and booze from a newsagents, and repeatedly flouted a suspended sentence order.The court was told he had a privileged start in life and a good upbringing with his family.Ieuan Callaghan, prosecuting, said Pierre White Jr was with an unknown female when he stole £2,496 worth of clothes from Wadswick Country Store. Police later found him in Bath, counting money in a car, minus the clothes.Judge Mark Horton said: 'It is addiction that causes intelligent people, from good backgrounds, who had every prospect, to cheat, lie and steal on a regular basis with a complete incapacity to stop doing so.'The heavily tattooed reality star appeared on the 2016 edition of Celebrity Big Brother but was evicted after just one week.Four days after his exit, he appeared in magistrates court to answer a drug driving charge from April 2016, when he was reportedly stopped in a grey BMW X5 in Hammersmith with more than 200 microgrammes of cocaine in his blood.For more of the latest showbiz and TV news from the Daily Star, make sure you sign up to one of our newslettershere.In 2018, he announced he was attending AA meetings and has since attended rehab for alcohol addiction.
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Met Office issues yellow warning as thunderstorm washout strikes ahead of wet weekend
Met Office has issued a yellow weather warning across areas of Britain with lightning, heavy showers and even some unseasonable hail forecast in the Midlands, South West of England and Wales. A considerable 90% of Wales is included in the weather warning, which also covers a sizeable area stretching from Birmingham and Bath down to Plymouth in Devon and Salisbury in Wiltshire.READ MORE: Meghan and Harry told to ‘step away’ from royal titles and try alternative nameThe yellow warning is not expected to be lifted until Friday (July 1) evening.BBC forecaster Chris Fawkes said: “What you will notice over the next few days is that the winds will become really quite light and so where those showers form and they are going to be quite widespread, they are going to be slow moving in nature, some of them turning heavy, with some hail and thunder, we might even get some flash flooding from the heaviest of the downpours as well."Chris added: "Temperatures similar to what we have seen over recent days, high teens across western areas, low 20Cs in the warmest spots further east."Looking further ahead, the Met Office predicted that there will be an "unsettled weekend of sunny spells and scattered showers, occasionally heavy, mainly in the north and west".
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