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There are signs outside almost every pub, restaurant and hotel dotting Torquay's harbour: Staff wanted.

It's been packed solid busy, you can't get a table anywhere," said Brett Powis, owner of three hotels in the area including the Riviera and Lincombe Hall. For the hotelier, staff shortages made it harder to take full advantage of the busiest summertime boom in the Devon resort for decades.