News: July 2012

Expanding Derbyshire brewery Thornbridge has taken its first lease with Punch Taverns.

A ten-year, free-of-tie agreement has been reached for the running of The Cross Scythes pub in Derbyshire Lane, Sheffield, which, following a refit, is due to open in early August.

Punch is investing £200,000 in refurbishing the 1930s property, which, according to Thornbridge, has ‘underperformed for some years’.