CAMRA research shows local pubs play an integral role right the way through the lives of people in local communities.
Since 2008, over 4,500 pubs have closed across the nation, with licensees battered by high beer tax, greedy pub companies, soaring overheads, and discount booze deals from major supermarket chains.
Community Pubs Month has therefore been launched by CAMRA to champion pubs as invaluable community assets, and outlets which vast numbers of local people across the UK rely upon so heavily during their daily lives.
Pubs are vital meeting places for young adults, with just under 9 in 10 of them using their local to meet friends and socialise.
Further to this, in a poll to regular pub goers, 1 in 4 currently married couples said they first met their current spouse/partner down the pub.