Amy Winehouse's favourite pub to rise from ashes

By Tim Castle

LONDON (Reuters) - One of London's most popular celebrity haunts is to rise from the ashes after being engulfed in the fire that devoured part of Camden Market, its owners said on Wednesday.

Grammy award-winning singer Amy Winehouse was one of the many high-profile regulars at Camden's Hawley Arms pub, which was badly damaged in the blaze that erupted in the bohemian district in north London on Saturday night.

"We are definitely going to reopen," said Ruth Mottram, one of the pub's three co-owners.

"It was a huge relief yesterday when we found it wasn't going to have to be pulled down, so that is good news," she told Reuters.

But she said it would be at least six months before the pub would be back up and running after repairs to the burnt-out upper floors and water-damaged ground level.

Situated by a railway bridge in a scruffy side street, the Victorian building is an unlikely venue for the likes of supermodel Kate Moss, Kelly Osbourne and even Hollywood actress Kirsten Dunst, who have all been spotted in its candlelit bars.

But since a revamp in 2006, the one-time rundown boozer has become "unquestionably the most fashionable pub in north London," according to the capital's listing magazine Time Out.

Winehouse's frequent -- and sometimes long-lasting -- visits earned it pages of valuable publicity.