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Community reopens ‘life and soul’ village pub!

Residents have raised a toast at the grand reopening of the last remaining pub in their village after raising £440,000 to save it.
The Ickleton Lion – now known as the Lion – near Cambridge and Saffron Walden in Essex, was put up for sale by Greene King in 2023.
A community benefit society was set up to buy the pub, which first opened in 1728, and an effort to refurbish the building got under way in December.
Betty Willmott, 93, who has lived in Ickleton all her life, said she hoped the pub would continue to be “the life and soul of the village”.

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