Your pub needs you – or it might be last orders The nation’s boozers were in trouble before the pandemic. Will the reopening of society be too little, too late for many of them? 14 May 2021 • 6:00pm Lee Ball, landlord of the 600-year-old Kings Arms in Ombersley, Worcestershire, says he will have to trade at 120 per cent of his pre-pandemic turnover just to stand still Credit: John Lawrence for The Telegraph Since it opened its doors in 1613, the Lamb & Flag pub had survived world wars, plague outbreaks and flu pandemics; served the likes of Thomas Hardy and Bill Clinton, CS Lewis, Tony Blair and JRR Tolkien.