Jeremy Clarkson reveals his Farmer’s Canine pub was stung for £27,000 final week

Jeremy Clarkson has revealed that his pub, The Farmer’s Canine, was robbed of £27,000 final week.

The High Gear star, 65, renovated The Windmill barn close to Burford and reopened it as The Farmer’s Canine in August 2024.

Season 4 of Clarkson’s Farm coated its chaotic build-up, with fixed allow points and staffing exits.

His formidable farm-to-fork method was additionally proving to be problematic, as his rule of solely utilizing British produce and British drinks meant that issues like Heinz Ketchup, Coca-Cola and black pepper weren’t on the menu.

Given how troublesome it’s to run a pub, Clarkson told The Occasions earlier this yr that he refuses to start out ‘one other enterprise so long as I stay’.

And the problems carry on coming after The Farmer’s Canine was lately subjected to a expensive cyber assault.

In his column for The Solar, he claimed that the pub was hit by the ‘similar hackers who blitzed Jaguar and M&S’.

M&S had been struck by a ransomware assault, which was believed to contain the Scattered Spider group again in April, with a press release from the corporate on their web site saying that ‘the character of the incident signifies that some private buyer information has been taken, however there isn’t any proof that it has been shared’.

They added: “To proactively handle the incident, we instantly took steps to guard our methods and engaged main cyber safety specialists. We additionally reported the incident to related authorities authorities and regulation enforcement, who we proceed to work intently with.”

In the meantime, Jaguar Land Rover suffered a serious cyber-attack in September that led to the quick shutdown of IT methods at UK factories, halting manufacturing globally (via the BBC).

“However nobody thought to say that my pub, the Farmer’s Canine, has been hit too,” Clarkson wrote. “It was, although. Somebody broke into our accounting system and helped themselves to £27,000.”

Additionally in his article for The Occasions, Clarkson talked extra in regards to the strains of proudly owning a pub, claiming that ‘it’s onerous sufficient coping with the entire vomit and the faeces and the fights, however while you issue within the native authority, and taxation, and the federal government’s thrilling new legal guidelines on employees’ rights, it turns into nigh-on inconceivable to remain sane’.

“That is why one pub within the UK is closing each single day in the mean time,” he famous.

Once more mentioning the cyber assault, he added: “Oh, and the way’s this for an ending? We had been hacked on the Farmer’s Canine final week and swindled out of £27,000.”

It is not all horrible, although, as Clarkson mentioned he has had his justifiable share of ‘good days’ on the pub.

“On a go to final week, I sat within the backyard, within the sunshine, with a pint of my very own beer, chowing down on a pizza made with dough from my very own farm, and it was rural perfection,” he mentioned.

“There was a gaggle of little youngsters doing handstands and canines lazing within the heat and households having fun with the stay band that serenades the purchasers on a Friday night. I used to be bathed in a Prepared Brek glow of absolute happiness.”

Whereas the challenges that include working a pub are effectively documented, he mentioned, ‘speaking in regards to the stuff isn’t’.