Double blow for Cullen

CULLEN was rocked yesterday (Monday) when The Seafield Arms Hotel ceased trading – just days after the town lost its only butcher shop.

Sheila Cornwallis, owner of the three-star hotel, restaurant and pub in Seafield Street, told the ‘Banffshire Journal’: "I shut the doors this morning until further notice.

"There have been a lot of rumours flying around, but I don’t want to say anymore.

"The hotel remains up for sale."

Full and part-time jobs have been lost as a result of the closure of the 23-bed hotel which has been popular with holidaymakers and as a wedding venue.

Its Kris-Cros bar is also popular with younger people in the area.

William Jappy is believed to have ended a 46-year link with Cullen when he shut the doors of his butchers shop in Grant Street for the last time on Saturday.

See full story in the Banffshire Journal.

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