When a couple decided to take on a pub on the brink of closure, they never imagined they’d still be there 20 years later. And while many pubs in the county have been swallowed by the pressures of the cost-of-living crisis, multiple recessions and a global pandemic, the landlord and landlady of The Duke of Wellington in Ryarsh have survived against the odds. Jon and Helen Sutton thought they’d only stay for two or three years to get the pub back on its feet, but two decades later “we’re still here,” they laugh. The husband-and-wife team, who met in 1987, are no strangers to the hospitality indu…
