A PUB in Oswaldtwistle has two new faces behind the bar.

John, 55, and Margaret Bromage, 40, moved into the White Bull, in New Lane, after they took over from Alan Jolley in November.

Mr Jolley left for France to help a friend restore an old farmhouse while his wife Ann looks after their home in Lancaster.

The Bromages left their old pub, the Salutation Inn, in Keswick, Cumbria, where they had been since 1994.

John, 55, said they had to move because of the foot-and-mouth outbreak -- they had suffered a 73 per cent drop in trade.

John, originally from Shadsworth, Blackburn, said: "Things are going well. The pub seems really busy and the kids have settled in fine -- they now have a television, something they didn't have before."