Pubs seeking compensation for pouring away 7.5m pints

Pub and brewery chiefs want taxpayers to pay for 7.5 million pints of beer that will be poured down the drain because of the second lockdown. Hospitality leaders are demanding Rishi Sunak offers a fresh round of handouts to the sector amid fears any hopes of a recovery will be skewered by four weeks of restrictions. In a letter to the chancellor they warn: “The sector could not be going into a lockdown in a worse state. “Without an immediate six-month support plan, many of our viable