{"id":1062,"date":"2013-12-08T23:20:38","date_gmt":"2013-12-08T23:20:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/packington.info\/bloggle\/?p=1062"},"modified":"2013-12-19T15:26:06","modified_gmt":"2013-12-19T15:26:06","slug":"shabby-takeover-at-our-bull-and-lion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/packington.info\/bloggle\/shabby-takeover-at-our-bull-and-lion\/","title":{"rendered":"Shabby takeover at our Bull and Lion ?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1064\" alt=\"MarstonsLogoTopDn_exIMG_1345w300\" src=\"https:\/\/packington.info\/bloggle\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/MarstonsLogoTopDn_exIMG_1345w300.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"161\" \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div>Guest contributor Wally Instrall writes:<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">To Readers of Packington Post, and hopefully The Ashby Times<\/span><\/div>\n<div>.<\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">I would like to express my utter disgust at the shabby way\u00a0in which\u00a0Marstons, the brewers, have treated the incumbents of the Bull &amp; Lion. <\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">Mandy and her team had started to revive the pub, were succeeding and had gained the support and affection of the whole village, when at a few days notice they were told that the tenancy had been bought and that they must vacate by the end of the week !!!<!--more--><\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">This may have been a good business\u00a0move but from the point of view of\u00a0humanity and decency it absolutely STINKS. <\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">The new tenants had viewed the pub (without Mandy&#8217;s knowledge) and bought the tenancy, probably because of the vibrant \u00a0nature of the pub created by Mandy and her team.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">A written copy of this email is being sent to Marstons and The Ashby Times (neither have a published email address)<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">WJ (Wally) Instrall<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">The Grange<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">Packington<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">LE65 1WW<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">Copies to Marston&#8217;s Wolverhamton WV1 4JT and The Ashby Times, Coalville LE65 3QP.<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guest contributor Wally Instrall writes: To Readers of Packington Post, and hopefully The Ashby Times . I would like to express my utter disgust at the shabby way\u00a0in which\u00a0Marstons, the brewers, have treated the incumbents of the Bull &amp; Lion. Mandy and her team had started to revive the pub, were succeeding and had gained &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/packington.info\/bloggle\/shabby-takeover-at-our-bull-and-lion\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;Shabby takeover at our Bull and Lion ?&rsquo; &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3],"class_list":["post-1062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-pub"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/packington.info\/bloggle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/packington.info\/bloggle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/packington.info\/bloggle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/packington.info\/bloggle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/packington.info\/bloggle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1062"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/packington.info\/bloggle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1062\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1084,"href":"https:\/\/packington.info\/bloggle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1062\/revisions\/1084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/packington.info\/bloggle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/packington.info\/bloggle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/packington.info\/bloggle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}