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Cheshire-based Gandeys Circus has been working with the government on pilot schemes for the return of live events ahead of officially reopening.

The projects have taken place at holiday resorts and led to suggestions of new measures to help tackle the spread of Covid-19.

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Binky Beaumont, from Gandeys, said it was great to get back to business.

“Everything is coming together,” he said.

“We have had artists flying in over the last two to three weeks who are in isolation, they have to have their Covid test, they have to be in isolation for 10 days, then they have to isolate and have daily test and temperature checks before they are allowed to start and join the rest of the cast for rehearsals, because it is such a big cast.”

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