Liverpool city centre pub to open all hours for one night only

A Liverpool city centre pub will be open all hours tonight.

The Vernon Arms on Dale Street in Liverpool city centre will remain open through the night tonight (July 4) and into tomorrow (July 5) for those who want to watch the general election coverage. The country is going to the polls today and voting closes at 10pm, before results come in from across the country during the early hours.

The pub will be showing the coverage on its screens and will not close at its usual time of midnight.

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In a post on X (formerly Twitter), the pub wrote: "Election alert! For one night only the Vernon Arms is open ALL NIGHT. Watch the election results pour in while we pour you a pint.

"See the looks of shock as huge majorities & £91,000 salaries are swept away. Free entry on Thursday night/Friday morning. Most cask ales £4 pint."

The pub is run by owner Conor Devlin, who took The Vernon over at the start of the year. Speaking to the ECHO last month, he said: "This is a real traditional pub. It's exceptional to have something like this in the centre of town because it's the last of a dying breed, having these sort of pubs in town.

"I don't plan to change that, it works very well and I want to keep it like that. It's renowned for real ale, just today the 2024 CAMRA LocAle award has just gone up. You'll see up above the bar, there's an award every year from 2009."

He added: "For me, it was just about keeping it open because it's really, really important to the community and as a hub for people", he said. "So I didn't even want to close the doors for one day - that's what we managed to do at the end of January, we took it over and kept it open.

"The real thing that I love is that the same faces are coming in. The same guy sits there and he comes in at this time of the day and sits there. If I didn't see those people, I would be worried.

"It's a bit of a home for people, it's never changed, so people still feel very much a part of it. The same people who have been coming in for years continue to come in at the same time, order the same thing and sit in the same place. It's one of those places that if that doesn't happen, you get concerned."

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