Last orders as costs force 500-year-old pub to close

ONE of Britain's oldest pubs is closing after nearly 500 years due to rising costs and changing consumer habits.

- By Charlie Bradley

The Hole in the Wall first served customers in 1540the year Henry VIII married and divorced his fourth wife.

But after surviving the English Civil War and two world wars, it is unable to withstand current economic pressures and drinking trends.

Richard Rossendale-Cook, the 81-year-old landlord of the pub in Torquay, Devon, said he

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