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Dan Haygarth & Neil Shaw

UNBELIEVABLE: Man turned away from pub for being too old - The Untold Story

A 76-year-old man says he was refused entry to a pub because he is too old. Anthony Severs walked up to Irish bar McCooley's in the centre of Liverpool but was turned away by a security worker, reports The Echo.

Anthony said: "I got up the stairs to go in, but a bouncer said I couldn’t come in. I asked why and she said I was too old. I said ‘that’s discrimination’. She then said nothing. I just walked away, I was shell-shocked."

Anthony added: "How would it make you feel? It was only when I walked away that it hit me. I thought ‘hang on - too old?’.

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