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In the first six months of the year, 281 of the estimated 7000 pubs in London called last orders for the final time, according to figures released today by the British Beer & Pub Association (BBPA).

If closures continue at this pace, the last pub in the capital would shut in 2034.

The rest of the South East has also been hit hard, with eight closures every week.

Meanwhile, East Anglia's publicans are shutting up shop at a rate of four a week.

"When I talk to landlords, the most common reason they give for closing is the crippling taxes," said Kim Martin, London director for the Campaign for Real Ale.

The BBPA today called on the Government to reverse the recent increases in beer duty.

But the Fair Pint Campaign disagrees, laying the blame at the door of the big pub companies, many of which force landlords to buy beer and other supplies from them at a higher price than they would pay elsewhere.

A spokesman for the Fair Pint Campaign said: "The big pub companies and some of the brewers are extracting unsustainable incomes from landlords.

"We need a Competition Commission enquiry into their behaviour, since the Office of Fair Trading only looked into a very narrow part of the problem earlier this year".

Almost 2400 pubs and bars in the UK vanished in the year to July.