Coronavirus: England enjoys lockdown easing

4 July 2020

Pubs, restaurants, hairdressers and cinemas in England are reopening after three months of coronavirus lockdown restrictions.

Businesses must adhere to strict safety measures and social distancing rules.

Customers wearing masks have their washed in basins in a hairdressers — Image caption,
Customers have their hair washed as staff wear visors at The Salon Leeds

Other places now allowed to reopen in England include:

Outdoor gyms, children's playgrounds and other outdoor spaces
Libraries, community centres, bingo halls, cinemas, museums and galleries
Funfairs and theme parks, amusement arcades, outdoor skating rinks, social clubs and model villages
Places of worship can open for prayers and services, including weddings with up to 30 guests

A customer wearing a face mask with David Bowie's face on has her hair washed in a hair salon — Image caption,
A customer shows off her jewelled David Bowie face covering at Tusk Hair stylists in Camden, London, just after midnight on 4 July

People ride a rollercoaster — Image caption,
Is that a smile? People's faces are covered as they enjoy The Smiler rollercoaster at Alton Towers

Men queue on the street to enter a Barbers — Image caption,
Men queue to enter a Barbers in Ashford, Kent

People drink outside of a pub — Image caption,
Patrons enjoy a socially-distanced pint in a pub in Humber Street, Hull

A wedding couple sign their marriage certificate — Image caption,
Jennifer Wilson (left) and Louise Arnold are believed to be the first couple to marry after restrictions eased. They tied the knot at Runcorn Town Hall Registry Office in Halton

A wedding couple kiss — Image caption,
The happy couple share a kiss as they married at one minute past midnight

A receptionist takes an appointment reservation over the phone — Image caption,
Receptionist and beautician Sharde Laing Cummings takes a reservation at Haks Oscar barber in Chelsea, London

A man holds his pint of beer up to the camera — Image caption,
A patron has his first drink at the reopening The Toll Gate pub in Hornsey, north London

A customer has her temperature checked — Image caption,
A customer at Alton Towers has her temperature checked before she enters the theme park in Staffordshire

A wedding couple pose in a church — Image caption,
The newly married Mr and Mrs Bone, Lucy and James, pose after their wedding at St Michael and all Angels Church in Ingram, Northumberland

A man cuts the hair of another man — Image caption,
Philip Tilly gets to work at his barber shop, Mr Tilly's, in Newcastle upon Tyne

A wedding in a church hall — Image caption,
The wedding of Tom Hall and Heather McLaren at St George's Church, Leeds

A bar worker uses a till behind a pub bar — Image caption,
Bar staff prepare for customers at the Rochester Castle pub in Stoke Newington, North London

People sit in a cinema — Image caption,
Film-goers at the Showcase Cinema in Bluewater, Kent, enjoy a movie in socially-distanced seats

A woman serves a pint to customer in a pub — Image caption,
Landlady Katy Boulter serves a pint to the national chairman of Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA), Nik Antona, at his local pub, the Royal Oak in Barton-under-Needwood, Staffordshire

A hairdresser cuts a customer's hair — Image caption,
Owner Carole Rickaby cuts a customer's hair at Tusk Hair stylists

Visitors look at a vintage war plane in an outdoor museum — Image caption,
Visitors look around the reopened Yorkshire Air Museum in Elvington

A waiter wearing a face mask carries a tray of three breakfast meals — Image caption,
The first breakfasts are served to customers at the reopening of The Old Stables Restaurant at Allerton Manor Golf Club, Liverpool

People in costume entertain pub customers on the street — Image caption,
Street artists perform for costumers outside the Golden Lion pub in Todmorden, West Yorkshire

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