East Suffolk Council has refused permission for the Three Horseshoes to be redeveloped to create three cottages. The pub is a designated Asset of Community Value (ACV) and this played a major part in the decision.

Framsden villagers have not only succeeded in their eight year fight to prevent the village's only pub being converted into a home, but have also raised enough funds (with help from a £276k grant from the government's Community Ownership Fund) to buy the pub. The building has deteriorated badly since closure, so will take some time to restore, but they hope to have it open by xmas, when it will revert to its historical name, the Greyhound.

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Adnams have succeeded in finding new people to run these two pubs at short notice and both have now reopened.

Management announced the pub's closure today. No information is available as to its long-term future. It seems that the Red Cat pub chain (run by former Greene King boss Rooney Anand) is in financial trouble.

Originally the Seal, which opened in 1998, this pub closed at the end of February and is to be converted into a Mediterranean restaurant.