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Soho power cut: Pubs, bars and restaurants lose out on Mad Friday

By Luke Nicholls & Peter Ruddick

As businesses braced themselves for ‘Mad Friday’, one of the busiest trading days of the year, a power cut left parts of London’s Soho without electricity for the majority of the day, forcing pubs, bars and restaurants to close.

Pub and restaurant sales rise for sixth consecutive month

By Emma Eversham

Sales at pubs and restaurants run by the biggest operators, such as Whitbread, Mitchells & Butlers and Tragus, continued to rise for the sixth consecutive month in November as consumers refused to give up an 'affordable treat'.