• Business
  • Life
  • Celebrity
  • Sport
  • Blog
  • Auto
  • Tech
Stories from SWNS
Advertisement
  • Home
  • News
    Living The Fantasy: An Interview With The Serpent Calls Author Christopher Bramley

    Living The Fantasy: An Interview With The Serpent Calls Author Christopher Bramley

    Sharp As A Razor: An Interview With Atheist Author Harry Margulies

    Sharp As A Razor: An Interview With Atheist Author Harry Margulies

    Karim Tahseen Khayat: Seeds Training Services and Digital Services

    Dig into Temporarily Insane by Carl Borgen

    Dig into Temporarily Insane by Carl Borgen

    From HID to LED

    From HID to LED

    Dying woman granted final wish to be reunited with her beloved horse and pet dogs one last time

    Dying woman granted final wish to be reunited with her beloved horse and pet dogs one last time

    Trending Tags

    • Trump Inauguration
    • United Stated
    • White House
    • Market Stories
    • Election Results
  • Business
  • Life
    • Celebrity
  • Tech
    Artificial Intelligence and Online Casino Games

    Artificial Intelligence and Online Casino Games

    What are the Latest Digital Marketing Trends?

    What are the Latest Digital Marketing Trends?

    Improve Your Financial Prospects With a Forex Trading Course

    Improve Your Financial Prospects With a Forex Trading Course

    Adsterra Malware Protection: How Does Adware Work?

    Adsterra Malware Protection: How Does Adware Work?

    How to Sell Your Online Store for Maximum Profit

    How to Sell Your Online Store for Maximum Profit

    From HID to LED

    From HID to LED

    Trending Tags

    • Nintendo Switch
    • CES 2017
    • Playstation 4 Pro
    • Mark Zuckerberg
  • Review

    The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild gameplay on the Nintendo Switch

    Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun Review

    macOS Sierra review: Mac users get a modest update this year

    Hands on: Samsung Galaxy A5 2017 review

    The Last Guardian Playstation 4 Game review

    Intel Core i7-7700K ‘Kaby Lake’ review

No Result
View All Result
  • Home
  • News
    Living The Fantasy: An Interview With The Serpent Calls Author Christopher Bramley

    Living The Fantasy: An Interview With The Serpent Calls Author Christopher Bramley

    Sharp As A Razor: An Interview With Atheist Author Harry Margulies

    Sharp As A Razor: An Interview With Atheist Author Harry Margulies

    Karim Tahseen Khayat: Seeds Training Services and Digital Services

    Dig into Temporarily Insane by Carl Borgen

    Dig into Temporarily Insane by Carl Borgen

    From HID to LED

    From HID to LED

    Dying woman granted final wish to be reunited with her beloved horse and pet dogs one last time

    Dying woman granted final wish to be reunited with her beloved horse and pet dogs one last time

    Trending Tags

    • Trump Inauguration
    • United Stated
    • White House
    • Market Stories
    • Election Results
  • Business
  • Life
    • Celebrity
  • Tech
    Artificial Intelligence and Online Casino Games

    Artificial Intelligence and Online Casino Games

    What are the Latest Digital Marketing Trends?

    What are the Latest Digital Marketing Trends?

    Improve Your Financial Prospects With a Forex Trading Course

    Improve Your Financial Prospects With a Forex Trading Course

    Adsterra Malware Protection: How Does Adware Work?

    Adsterra Malware Protection: How Does Adware Work?

    How to Sell Your Online Store for Maximum Profit

    How to Sell Your Online Store for Maximum Profit

    From HID to LED

    From HID to LED

    Trending Tags

    • Nintendo Switch
    • CES 2017
    • Playstation 4 Pro
    • Mark Zuckerberg
  • Review

    The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild gameplay on the Nintendo Switch

    Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun Review

    macOS Sierra review: Mac users get a modest update this year

    Hands on: Samsung Galaxy A5 2017 review

    The Last Guardian Playstation 4 Game review

    Intel Core i7-7700K ‘Kaby Lake’ review

No Result
View All Result
Stories from SWNS
No Result
View All Result
Home News

Anger as Wetherspoons manager forces poppy seller who was seeking shelter to stand out in the pouring rain

John Bett by John Bett
November 8, 2018
in News
0
Anger as Wetherspoons manager forces poppy seller who was seeking shelter to stand out in the pouring rain

Poppy seller .Pete West, 47, who was forced to stand in the rain - after a Wetherspoons pub manager told him he couldn't use the pub's concrete canopy

0
SHARES
19
VIEWS
Share on FacebookShare on Twitter

Pub chain Wetherspoons has apologised after staff forced a poppy seller who was seeking shelter outside one of their pubs – to stand out in the rain.

Pete West, 47, was selling the Royal British Legion’s decorative poppies to passers-by as the heavens opened.

To stay dry, Pete stood under a concrete canopy which forms part of The Chevalier pub in Exeter, Devon.

But the manager of the pub came out and told Pete he wouldn’t be able to stand there as they didn’t have a license.

Poppy seller .Pete West, 47, who was forced to stand in the rain – after a Wetherspoons pub manager told him he couldn’t use the pub’s concrete canopy.

Several angry pub-goers put down their drinks and left in protest at the decision to move Pete on.

The pub chain has apologised and described the incident as an “error.”

But decorated veteran Pete said he was shocked by their actions.

He said: “The day before I was doing the same thing outside Chevalier and there was no problem.

“Yesterday I was there for around two hours, with no disruption, I didn’t even rattle the tin.

“As I was keeping out of the rain, a guy came out and said ‘you have to move away from the building.’

“He began telling me I was on their property and they were not licenced for me to be there.

The Chevalier pub in Exeter, Devon, where poppy seller Pete West, 47, who was forced to stand in the rain – after the Wetherspoons pub manager told him he couldn’t use the pub’s concrete canopy.

“I was not on their bit of the pathway, the black tiled bit on the strip. I was on the public pathway.

“I told him ‘I’m not going to stand in rain chucking it down’, I had my vendors badge on me yet he was telling me ‘you’re not allowed to do collections here.’

“I went away, had a cup of coffee and cooled off.

“When I came back I didn’t want an argument so I went back and stood outside [Bargain Buys] opposite – a lot of people came up and asked me why I had moved.

“I was told a couple of people left the pub because of what happened.”

A military driver by trade, Pete was sporting the medals he earned in the transport core because he: “loves to make an effort, especially this time of year.”

He joined the military in 1991 and served for 21 years in the hellish war zones of Bosnia, Kosovo, and Afghanistan.

He also served in Northern Ireland.

Pete stresses that these were the actions of one manager, and Wetherspoon are normally very accommodating for the selling of poppies.

He said that he went to a different Wetherspoons the day before and was given a free cup of coffee.

He explained: “The day before went into Georges Meeting House and put poppies on counter – and they gave me a cup of coffee and told me I didn’t need to pay for it.”

One fellow volunteer, David Haynes, who helps organise poppy collections in Exeter, says it was an exception to the rule for this to happen in the city.

Exeter Poppy Appeal organiser David Haynes.

He said: “This junior manager clearly didn’t get the message passed down from the main manager of the pub.

“Rather than argue it, or get into a confrontation Pete just walked away.

“It is not common at all for things like this to happen. We have no problems with Georges Meeting House at all.

“Ferns in the Guildhall will always offer poppy sellers cups of tea, and other shops too.”

Wetherspoon has been quick to apologise to Pete about yesterday’s incident.

Spokesman Eddie Gershon said: “This was an error and should not have happened.

“We apologise to the gentleman concerned.”

Previous Post

Urban fox has been dubbed Britain’s fattest – after it was spotted “waddling” through a garden

Next Post

Token Economics 101 – Why Does It Matter?

John Bett

John Bett

Next Post
Token Economics 101 – Why Does It Matter?

Token Economics 101 – Why Does It Matter?

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Stay Connected test

  • 110 Followers
  • 60k Followers
  • 168k Subscribers
  • 23.5k Followers
  • 99 Subscribers
  • Trending
  • Comments
  • Latest
Women love cheesy chat up lines, a study has revealed

Top 20 cheesy chat-up lines ladies really love

March 5, 2014
The top ten most well-known bingo phrases

The top ten most well-known bingo phrases

January 21, 2014
The horses thunder towards a jump at the Grand National

Amazing racehorse names which never made it

April 23, 2014
HGH Injections Brands: Which Ones Are Best?

HGH Injections Brands: Which Ones Are Best?

January 14, 2019
Chris Fear, 33, outside the Coral betting shop which is refusing to pay out on his 485/1 winning bet

Boycott Coral! Bookmaker faces protest after refusing to pay out on a football fan’s 485/1 bet

184
Women love cheesy chat up lines, a study has revealed

Top 20 cheesy chat-up lines ladies really love

147
Women feel invisible to the opposite sex at the age of 51, researchers found

Women begin feeling invisible to men ‘when they turn 51’

138
UKIP candidate claims Jews murdered each other in the Holocaust in masterplan to create State of Israel

UKIP candidate claims Jews murdered each other in the Holocaust in masterplan to create State of Israel

105
Living and Working in a Small Canadian Town Like Banff

Living and Working in a Small Canadian Town Like Banff

May 13, 2022
Top 5 risks of addressable media advertising

Top 5 risks of addressable media advertising

May 6, 2022
The top 5 UK shopping centres with the highest footfall (and how this can help your business)

The top 5 UK shopping centres with the highest footfall (and how this can help your business)

May 4, 2022
How to build customer relationships and increase loyalty

How to build customer relationships and increase loyalty

May 4, 2022

Recent News

Living and Working in a Small Canadian Town Like Banff

Living and Working in a Small Canadian Town Like Banff

May 13, 2022
Top 5 risks of addressable media advertising

Top 5 risks of addressable media advertising

May 6, 2022
The top 5 UK shopping centres with the highest footfall (and how this can help your business)

The top 5 UK shopping centres with the highest footfall (and how this can help your business)

May 4, 2022
How to build customer relationships and increase loyalty

How to build customer relationships and increase loyalty

May 4, 2022
SWNS

SWNS all rights reserved. Copyright 2020

Follow Us

Browse by Category

  • Auto
  • Blog
  • Business
  • Celebrity
  • Gaming
  • Life
  • Lifestyle
  • News
  • Pictures
  • Property
  • Review
  • Sport
  • SWNS
  • Tech
  • Travel
  • Uncategorized

Recent News

Living and Working in a Small Canadian Town Like Banff

Living and Working in a Small Canadian Town Like Banff

May 13, 2022
Top 5 risks of addressable media advertising

Top 5 risks of addressable media advertising

May 6, 2022
  • About
  • Advertise
  • Privacy & Policy
  • Contact

Real Fix is a trading style of South West News Service Limited.
Copyright © 2020 South West News Service Limited.

No Result
View All Result
  • Business
  • Life
  • Celebrity
  • Sport
  • Blog
  • Auto
  • Tech

Real Fix is a trading style of South West News Service Limited.
Copyright © 2020 South West News Service Limited.