Fire damages pub owned by Stuart Broad

Fire services were called to the Tap & Run in Upper Broughton, owned by Broad and former teammate Harry Gurney, in the early hours of Saturday morning

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A huge fire has damaged a pub owned by Stuart Broad and his former Nottinghamshire teammate Harry Gurney.

Fire services were called to the Tap & Run in Upper Broughton, on the Nottinghamshire and Leicestershire border, at around 3:20am on Saturday (June 11) morning, with eight crews in attendance to tackle the blaze.

Video of the Tap & Run pub fire at Upper Broughton, part owned by Notts & England cricketer Stuart Broad. @nottsfire says it is still fighting a fire in the roof. pic.twitter.com/k2MvOSzgwt

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There are no reports of any injuries, but the pub, run by Broad and Gurney since September 2018, has suffered significant damage to the roof and first floor.

Broad, who is currently playing in England’s second Test against New Zealand at Trent Bridge, was alerted to the fire at 6:20am.

In a statement, Jonathan Wilson, station manager at Nottinghamshire Fire and Rescue, said: "We were mobilised to this building fire and we had eight appliances here and an aerial ladder platform. Swift action by the crews has contained the fire to the building but the building is quite badly damaged.

^{The pub is owned by Stuart Broad [Gareth Copley/Getty Images] and Harry Gurney [Laurence Griffiths/Getty Images]}

"We are working to dampen it down and will probably be here doing that for the next couple of hours at least.

"There was not believed to be anybody inside the building and the fire was contained to the building itself. Crews from Nottinghamshire and Leicestershire together have been working to deal with it.

"We are going to concentrate on putting the fire out - we are having a structural engineer have a look at the building as well to see if it is structurally safe, then there will be an investigation."

The pub released also released a statement on social media: "We’re absolutely devastated to report that a fire broke out in the pub during the night. We are heartbroken to see our beautiful pub up in flames. Thankfully no one was hurt.

"We are sorry we will not be able to honour any bookings for the foreseeable future and sorry for any distress the fire has caused the villagers.

"Thank you to the fire service who have been brilliant and thank you for everyone’s kind messages of support, we really appreciate it. We will keep everyone updated in the coming days and weeks."

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