LOCAL members of real ale group CAMRA will be looking closely at new plans which would mean the permanent loss of a pub in Malvern.

A development company has applied to Malvern Hills District Council to convert the Vaults at Link Top into housing.

The Vaults, at 102 Worcester Road, has been closed since January, when landlord Karl Crangle shut the business, claiming he had been made a scapegoat for problems with drinking and anti-social behaviour in the area.

Mark Haslam of CAMRA said: "We will be taking a close look at this, in the light of the loss of other pubs in the Malvern area."

Read more in tomorrow's Malvern Gazette.