The Ship Inn at Brimscombe, near Stroud (Image: Google Maps)

The owners of a pub in the Cotswolds have cut their opening hours and put their prices up, putting the blame squarely on the Government’s recent budget changes to wages and taxes. The bosses of the Ship Inn in the village of Brimscombe said the pub would no longer be a viable business and they would face liquidation if they didn't make the changes to prices of drinks and opening hours.

In a statement posted on the pub’s social media pages, landlord Wesley Birch, who has several pubs and restaurants in the Stroud Valleys, said: “This decision is driven entirely by the latest tax demands imposed on the hospitality and beer industries by the government.

“We have absorbed every cost increase possible to maintain the pub you know

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