When a customer in a Somerset town tested positive, two local venues found themselves in the eye of a stormCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageMark Wilson’s first visit to the pub in months started perfectly. The 30-year-old met some of his closest friends in a vaping bar, Vape Escape, near the windswept seafront in Burnham-on-Sea, Somerset. “I was glad to be seeing people and getting a pint in a pub again, ” he says. “We watched the Man United game and they won – so I was in a good mood.”As the Saturday evening wore on, the group moved on to another pub in the quiet seaside resort, about a 45-minute drive from Bristol. The six friends moved back and forth between the two pubs before calling it a night. “I was pretty merry, ” says Wilson. “But it was all good.” Continue reading...
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