Parts of northern England face new restrictions – as it happened
by Jessica Murray (now); Lucy Campbell, Nazia Parveen from Science | The Guardian on (#56AE9)
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And finally... just minutes before the new restrictions come into force, the Department of Health has finally posted some more details of the rules on its website.
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