A HEREFORD pub that planned to ban people the landlord describes as chavs and roadmen will not open this weekend.
In a statement posted on its Facebook page today, the Orange Tree in St Owen's Street said: "The pub will be closed this weekend due to the same ongoing issues.
"We would just like to give a big shout out to Herefordshire council for all their help and support!"
The week we reported how landlord Brian Hoyle, who only took the pub over last summer, had become frustrated by the poor behaviour of some customers.
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He said he would be banning people wearing Stone Island-branded clothing, sportswear, hoodies, tracksuits and bum bags. The ban was to have come into force for the first time this weekend.
He said: "There's a lot of young chavs, or roadmen, with bum bags in Hereford, if you know what I mean, been frequenting the pub and they don't know how to behave."
"The youngsters don't know how to handle themselves in a pub.
"A lot of them turned 18 during lockdown and are just misbehaving to be fair, and putting off other customers.
Mr Hoyle said he had introduced the ban to try to return the the Orange Tree to the sort of place it was in its heyday.
- We are trying to contact Mr Hoyle for more information. Check back here for updates
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