Poppies are worn each year to mark Remembrance events and commemorate those who died in the first and second world wars and other conflicts.<\/p>\n
Schillemore said a couple of women, after overhearing the exchange, had said they would not support a business that refused customers wearing poppies.<\/p>\n
“The door staff at the time only had to say ‘Fellas, not today’, and that could have been it,” he said.<\/p>\n
“It was at the point that he said that the poppies was the reason and that’s what upset us all.”<\/p>\n
A Wetherspoons spokesperson said there was “no ban on poppies” in the company’s pubs.<\/p>\n
“Wetherspoon has been a long-standing supporter of the Royal British Legion Poppy Appeal, with poppies for sale in our pubs, including the Star,” they said.<\/p>\n
It said security measures during the demonstration on Sunday meant “some members of the public, including some wearing poppies, did not gain entry to the pub”.<\/p>\n
The spokesperson continued that it had closed to all customers at 17:00 BST after advice from the police, and remained closed on Monday. <\/p>\n
“We apologise to any regular customers who have been inconvenienced by today’s events and look to forward to welcoming everyone back tomorrow,” they added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Poppies are worn each year to mark Remembrance events and commemorate those who died in the first and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":814772,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-814771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/814771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=814771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/814771\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/814772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=814771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=814771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=814771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}