THE OWNER of a city centre pub has explained variations in his pub’s beer prices after veterans claimed the cost of a pint was put up by £1 on Remembrance Sunday.

Kevin Dean, owner of The Ginger Goose, in Market Street, has responded to claims a pint of Fosters was £2.20 before the 11am service at Bradford’s war memorial and £3.20 once it had finished.

He said the prices were not altered especially for Remembrance Sunday, but – as is standard practice at the pub – were lowered in the morning during a quiet period and changed back to the standard price of £3.20 in the afternoon when the bar was hosting entertainment.

Mr Dean told the Telegraph & Argus: “We have reduced prices at various times and it’s the most competitively priced bar in the city centre.

“We keep it like that for most of the day.

“However, when we have entertainment on the reduction doesn’t apply. So the prices haven’t gone up.

“Remembrance Day is a busy day and the reason for that is because we had entertainment on all day long.

“We had a traditional swing band, a duet and a singer on the night.

“There was no payment to get in, they just got entertainment all day.

“When there is no entertainment the prices are reduced.”

Mr Dean cleared up the pricing strategy after George Morgan, 67, from Brighouse, and his cousin, Terrence Derricks, a 22-year veteran of the Prince of Wales regiment, said they had been charged different prices in the morning and afternoon.

Mr Dean said: “We had all been to the service. We had gone in at 10am and the price of a pint was £2.20.

“When we went back after the memorial service it was really busy.

“I saw a sign in the window about the prices and thought it was an all right deal.”