A married couple who own the Red Lion in Overton have said they’ve “lost everything” after finding they were ineligible for Covid support grants. Shannon and Caroline Wells stepped back from running the pub in September 2019 after finding tenants to take on the lease, which they planned to use as their retirement fund. However, after the leasees ended the contract at the height of the pandemic, the couple found they were ineligible for government support. Caroline told the Gazette: “We’ve got a pub back that we can’t open and we’ve lost everything – lost our income, lost our pension and we’re not getting any help whatsoever all due to timing.”