Pub considers banning ‘feral’ kids causing chaos while parents look the other way

Mandy Keefe and John Forge, owners of The Wheel Inn, have already banned children under the age of 14 from entering the pub and other landlords are now considering similar action (Picture: Cover Media)

Pub landlords are threatening to ban children after fed-up drinkers complained about ‘feral’ youngstersrunning amok in beer gardens. 

Bosses at The Market Inn, in Faversham, Kent, said it may become a strictly over-12s venue after kids were accused of tearing up plants, throwing stones and barging into customers while parents looked the other way.

In a blunt Facebook post landlord Tim Stowell said he was breaking at point. ‘Sorry to moan, however, it is becoming more and more frequent that parents are not watching or looking after their children while in the pub,’ he wrote

He describes a varie...