Greene King venues in Lancaster and Morecambe currently remain open as pub giant announces closures

Greene King owns Greaves Park in Bowerham Road, Lancaster, The Station and The Dog and Partridge in Morecambe, and Strawberry Gardens in Heysham.

All of these pubs are listed as being currently open for business.

A spokesman for Greene King said the company is not yet issuing a list of pubs that will close, although it said 79 sites "will stay closed" for the time being, with about one third of these expected to be shut permanently.

The company owns a total of 3,100 pubs in the UK.

Today, Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon announced all pubs and restaurants across central Scotland would close for two weeks from Friday under new measures aimed at tackling a surge in coronavirus cases in the region.

A spokesperson for Greene King said: “The continued tightening of the trading restrictions for pubs, which may last another six months, along with the changes to government support was always going to make it a challenge to reopen some of our pubs.

"Therefore, we have made the difficult decision not to reopen 79 sites, including the 11 Loch Fyne restaurants we announced last week.

"Around one-third will be closed permanently and we hope to be able to reopen the others in the future. We are working hard with our teams to try and find them a role in another of our pubs wherever possible.

“We urgently need the government to step in and provide tailored support to help the sector get through to the spring and prevent further pub closures and job losses.”