Leighton Cragg has taken over at The Starkie Arms pub in Padiham and he wants to banish its old 'rough' image and promote it as a music venue
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00:00 Doing really well. Me and my partner, we took over in October.
00:03 And the challenge was just to get people coming through the door again,
00:08 because they've been shut for a bit.
00:10 We have a full sport package which brings football fans in,
00:13 which is what we wanted as a sports bar.
00:16 And then recently, like the last month or so,
00:19 we started putting live acts on on a Sunday.
00:21 And that's going down really well.
00:22 So yeah, it was a challenge to start with, but we're getting there slowly.
00:26 When we told people we were taking over and they were like,
00:28 "Oh, you don't want to go there."
00:32 But I've always been up for a challenge and it didn't put me off.
00:35 And now we're dead set on coming here and we wanted to make a nice pub drive
00:40 and we're succeeding.
00:41 Obviously, we talk to people well, we're good with people
00:44 and they're starting to respond to us now.
00:46 And we look after them and they'll look after us in time, hopefully.