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What's on this August Bank Holiday weekend? Camel racing returns to the Hertfordshire countryside at Northaw on Bank Holiday Monday, August 30, 2021.

St Albans pubs and restaurants are desperately trying to recruit workers in the wake of Brexit and coronavirus

The marquee in the garden of the Elephant and Castle. - Credit: The Elephant and Castle Although the big pub chains were able to react robustly to the government guidelines when it came to al fresco dining, the smaller independents had more of a battle on their hands. Farr Brew is an award-winning local micro-brewery which also now runs four pubs across Hertfordshire, including the very popular Elephant & Castle in Amwell - the grounds of which they completely transformed during the first lockdown into a children's paradise - the Red Cow in Harpenden and the Reading Rooms in Wheathampstead...

Sean said: "Being without pubs for most of the past year I’m sure that we can all agree that we have missed our community spaces and we will continue to protect our local pubs.   "For almost five years the government has promised reforms to business rates and failed to deliver on these promises. This has cost hundreds of businesses to go under and pushed the price of a pint up, especially for independent pubs who cannot spread the cost over several sites, like larger pubs such as Wetherspoons. "We are hopeful that the reform due in the autumn statement will support pubs, small businesses ...

Andrei Lussmann and Becky Alexander judging the Young Chef competitions. - Credit: Becky Alexander 300! What’s that? The number of coffee shops we have? No! This is my 300th food column for The Herts Advertiser, so this week is a little different from usual. I am going to look back at the 10 years it has taken to write those columns and see what has changed, and what it has been like!   “St Albans is a city of food lovers. We have fantastic markets, restaurants, cafes and food shops, and of course some of the best pubs in the country. So, it is time to celebrate this fact with a new...