Why sloth-like Steve had to make a move

Time has been called on Britain's laziest man, Steve Mould. For, after almost five years of bedding down in the bar of his favourite pub, Steve had to muster the energy to move out when it changed hands last week. Divorcee Steve, 49, had been a fixture at the Mariner's Arms, Berkeley, Glos, since Xmas 1998. He was spending so much of his time propping up the bar and drinking cider that landlady Sandra Cooke invited him to sleep-in ­ as a human burglar deterrent after the pub suffered several raids. He occasionally helped out behind the bar ­ but that was as close to work as he got. Last year his sloth-like existence in the pub led to him being voted Britain's Laziest Man inan ITV documentary and he also won Radio Five Live's Laziest Man Award. Now he has moved himself and his few belongings to his brother's house in Dursley, Glos. As he prepared to make the move, Steve said: "I will miss the place and the regulars an awful lot. It's all I've known for years. "My brother has a bed for me ­ it'll be my first in five years ­ but I'll probably sleep on the floor because that's what I'm used to now." One of the biggest wrenches for Steve was having to give up his beloved pet dog, lurcher Sasha ­ because his brother keeps cats.