A CHEPSTOW woman who reopened a pub for the community now has fresh competition - from her own daughter.

Maureen Hughes, 65, runs the Live and Let Live in Tutshill, about a mile away from daughter Zoe Evans, 30, who took over the Rising Sun, Woodcroft, four months ago.

It is the second time Mrs Hughes has run the Chepstow pub. From 2000 to 2004 she was the landlady, and her daughter the bar manager, before they decided to venture into pastures new.

The pair opened a cleaning business, but decided it wasn't for them.

In the meantime, in her break from running the Tutshill pub, Mrs Hughes also worked at a day centre in West End, Magor, cooking lunches and carried on playing darts for her old pub's team.

But when it closed in 2009 for a few weeks, the team were without a home and this was when Mrs Hughes felt she had to do something.

"People would say to me, 'Why don't you go back to the Live and Let Live so we can play there?' When I first sold it I regretted my decision and did miss it," Mrs Hughes recalled.

With the help of Joan and Colin Hughes, from the Chepstow and District darts league, who built the smoking area and decorated the inside, Mrs Hughes was soon up and running again.

But in March, she had a new competitor - daughter Zoe.

Despite mum and daughter being in immediate competition with each other, they work together and use the same suppliers.

"It is very handy, she stole half my cheesecake, half a block of cheese and some lettuce the other day!" Mrs Hughes said.