Jeremy Clarkson has opened up on his pub haemorrhaging money, despite being packed to the rafters with punters each and every day. The former Top Gear star's new series of his Amazon Prime series, Clarkson's Farm, dropped this week.

In episode four of the fifth series, Jeremy sits down with his consultant, Charlie Ireland, to go over the trading figures for the first four months of business — and he is far from pleased with what he finds. Cutting straight to the chase, he says: "Profit before taxation, which gives me hope... minus £8,486. That's the headline figure, we're losing money." Casting his eye further over the document, he tells Charlie: "We're fully booked every day, couldn't get any more people in if we tried... I'm stumped. We've got people coming, and we're losing money."

Charlie went on to explain that it was ironically the pub's own success that was driving up costs.

He said: "It's partly the success that's causing the additional cost, as the infrastructure of the pub can't cope."

He drew attention to the cost of theft, revealing that someone had made off with £200 worth of cooking oil the previous evening, before turning his attention to the pub's toilets.

He was completely perplexed as he said: "Every single day, somebody steals the lightbulbs, and the urinal traps, we've had to screw these down to stop them being nicked. Who steals urinal traps?"

Making his way back inside, he then held one of his Hawkstone brewery pint glasses aloft and said: "Glasses, wanna hazard a guess how many of these are stolen every week?"

After a brief hesitation he replied: "No you're quite wrong, it's 400. 400 glasses a week are nicked from here."

The first four episodes of Clarkson’s Farm series five are available now on Prime Video.