It is a week since non-essential shops reopened and pubs, restaurants and cafes with outdoor seating could serve their cherished customers once more. Queues as long as 100 people stretched along High Street showed shoppers were eager to browse the rails. But what has trade been like for the town s smaller independents? Reporter Gabriella Iskra spoke to business owners to get their point of view. The LP Café opened in The Parade, Watford, in 2013 and is run by father-of-one Paul Terris, 37, who founded the business with his partner Leila Simpson after being inspired by a record shop they had visited in Naples.