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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Business
Rob Davies

‘People want to put Covid behind them’: UK pubs hopeful as drinkers return

Ye Olde Mitre pub manager Judith Norman.
Ye Olde Mitre pub manager Judith Norman. Photograph: Linda Nylind/The Guardian

In its nearly 500-year history, Ye Olde Mitre in Holborn has served beer under 21 monarchs, survived the English civil war and emerged unscathed from the Great Fire of London.

But few events have affected the pubs trade quite so profoundly as the Covid-19 pandemic.

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