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11.18pm BST

Here's a roundup of the key events from the last few hours:

11.06pm BST

People should enjoy new freedoms but remain wary of the risks, Boris Johnson has said, as beer gardens, alfresco restaurants, shops and salons prepared to reopen across England on Monday for the first time in almost four months.

The prime minister hailed the reopening - a major and irreversible" step in the roadmap of easing restrictions - as a chance to get back to doing some of the things we love and have missed".

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