BOSSES at two pubs say they were nearly drunk dry in their first week of opening after coronavirus restrictions eased. Pubs in England were able to re-open last Monday with customers having to sit in beer gardens in groups of up to six people. By yesterday The Entwistle Hotel in Entwistle Street, Darwen, had just a few pints in the lines and mostly bottles left after a hugely successful opening week. Landlord Craig Rustidge said: “It’s been brilliant and crazy. I’ve never known anything like this. I’ve never witnessed anything like this past week. “You would really think we were going into another lockdown and nobody was ever going to get another pint.”