The claims about nightclubs nationwide come from a report commissioned by the business organisation Association of Licensed Multiple Retailers (ALMR) and shown to BBC Radio 1 last summer.
The report itself isn’t publically available. But the authors, CGA Strategy, told us that it’s kept a database of pubs, restaurants, nightclubs and so on for 25 years. The report said that there were 3,144 clubs in 2005 and 1,733 in 2015, so just over half as many.
This is an extract from the excellent Full Fact published every Friday right here.
With nightclubs in decline, what does modern Britain get up to after dark?
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