pub landlord has managed to avoid having his premises shut down after it was caught serving pints of lager to people when the country was meant to be in lockdown due to the coronavirus pandemic.
The decision not to close the Santa Clara pub in St Clears, in Carmarthenshire, Wales, and ban its landlord Richard Pearce, was made by a licensing committee at Carmarthenshire Council this week.Police had called for the pub to be closed down for three months and said Mr Pearce should be removed as the "designated premises supervisor" after officers found people drinking inside the premises twice on the same day - the second incident coming less than an hour after the first.This was also a week after council officers had visited the pub and spoken.
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