Judging by recent reports on the pub industry in the Broadsheets it looks like the BBPA, the font of all reliable information about the pub sector, has been saying that current pub closures are down to '20 a month' - or under 5 a week. Perhaps they got this wrong, maybe the BBPA told them it's 20 a week but whatever the figure:

That's down from the BBPA's own figures of:
52 a week in the first half of 2009
39 a week in early 2010
25 a week in early 2011

SO the rate of pub closures has stemmed to much less than half that of three years ago.

Rubbish.