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Top Gear star turned publican James May reveals the secret to the perfect pub (and why boozers should run painting classes and SPANISH lessons if they want to survive)


Former Top Gear star James May believes unless pubs prepare for the future they will not survive the change in consumer behavior which has seen the traditional bar put under pressure.

Former Top Gear star James May- who is part owner of a village inn - has revealed the way to success in the bar trade is to have 'clean bogs and good food'. James, who is part owner of the Royal Oak in Swallowcliffe, Wiltshire said fewer people going to pubs and that things have changed dramatically over the past few decades. His idea of hell would be a sports bar with dozens of screens showing the latest game from the Icelandic third division, which another providing updates from a ten-pin bowling competition from Alabama.

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