The Nightingale is a picturesque rural pub popular for its good food and well-kept ales.

The play opens in a rural Irish pub with Brendan, the publican and Jack, a car mechanic and garage owner.

Not easy to make a living running a rural pub, when your chums in Traffic sneak around outside, breathalysing all my customers.

But this rural pub offered only two choices, and it took too much ale to intoxicate him.

This fallback applies to many rural pubs that double as grocery stores.

"It is really having a major effect on rural pubs."

Most of the country's new housing, clustered close to towns, does not deliver any new customers for the rural pub.

Another issue divides rural and urban pubs.

The British Beer and Pub Association estimated in 2001 that "six rural pubs close each week".

A stand of Norfolk pine, twenty meters from the rural pub, drew him like flotsam from a roaring stream.