Sign up for our What's On newsletter - for all the latest whether you're staying in or heading out and about A community pub which has been at risk of closure for years is being refurbished in a final attempt to save it.
The Victoria, in Dukinfield, was already struggling before the pandemic - but coronavirus pushed it to the brink of shutting its doors for good.
Ursula Higham, the landlady in charge of the Victoria, also runs the Cheshire Cheese and the George and Dragon in Newton. She said: "I don't think there's been a week during this lockdown where I haven't looked at the accounts and thought 'oh God, I'm in trouble'. "It's draining as well.
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