Meanwhile, elsewhere in the English countryside, pub landlords have told The Independent they have seen had a good first month of being able to reopen, after staying shut for months due to the pandemic.
Joe Tansley, who runs a pub in a village in Worcestershire, says he had 90 customers booked in on the day he spoke to The Independent in early August.
“For a small pub, that is brilliant,” he says, adding he was also almost fully booked up for that weekend.
Read more here: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/coronavirus-pubs-reopening-lockdown-social-distancing-a9657731.html
