As England’s pubs yesterday opened their doors for the first time in months, landlady Vanda Pera hoped that it marked the end of COVID-19 lockdowns that put her village pub under strain and drove hundreds more like it out of business. Pera, who runs The Crown Inn in Capel, southern England, has held online quiz nights, delivered meals to residents and even given away unsold beer over the past year. Now, she is eager to get back behind the bar. “I’ve got so many events booked and lined up to ... let everybody know that we’ve survived and say: ‘Let’s just carry