Plastic screens, tracings apps and table service. English pubs reopen on bittersweet day
(WorldNews Europe)

London (CNN)The revered English poet William Blake once purportedly likened an English pub to a church, with two important caveats: `a pub is warmer, and there`s more conversation.` For the writer Samuel Johnson, there was `nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern.` And the sentiment was captured by Shakespeare, too: a character in `Henry V` wishes he were `in an alehouse in London,` reasoning: `I would give all my fame for a pot of ale and safety.` Pubs are the beating heart of Britain, as vital a national institution as The Bard`s writings themselves. But for the first time since World War II, ale and safety have become...