Landlord wins battle

Leamington Courier

A landlord near Warwick has won a 'David and Goliath' battle to keep a bull mural on the side of his 400-year-old pub - as long as he makes the pub look like a farm.

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00:00My name is Martin, I'm the landlord at the Bull's Head in Wottonwowen in Warwickshire.

00:14It's a 17th century pub. We've recently had approval for our mural on the front elevation

00:22of the building. It was painted by a local artist, Phil Taylor, in Leamington Spa last

00:29June. We were told that we had to remove the mural which we didn't want to do so we decided

00:35to put in a retrospective application. We had tremendous support from the local community

00:41and further afield. We had a great petition running where we had some 1500 signatures.

00:50We recently got the approval just last week. We're allowed to keep the mural as long as we

00:56maintain it and we are extremely pleased to keep it. Come along, come and see the mural.

01:05We keep the pub beautifully preserved as a heritage pub

01:09but we also serve Thai food. We have four Thai chefs

01:12all from Thailand and we have the most authentic food within the Midlands.

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