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A Wetherspoon pub closed for the night after a shocked customer was almost hit by chunks of a crumbling cornice that fell from the ceiling. Jason Moves had been enjoying a pint of Carlsberg before hearing a “hell of thud” as the debris landed on the bar floor in The Samuel Peto in Folkestone, which dates back to 1873. Like many Wetherspoon branches across the country, it is a historic building that has been converted into a pub by the national chain. The Grade II-listed venue was closed by bosses as a precaution shortly after the incident at 6.30pm yesterday and it did not reopen until this mo…

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