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Businesses chafe in Leicester as UK city faces new lockdown

by Associated Press
| June 30, 2020 6:03 AM

LONDON (AP) — Shopkeepers pulled down their shutters, cafe owners paused reopening plans and schools prepared to send children home in the English city of Leicester on Tuesday after the British government imposed a local lockdown to contain a spike in coronavirus cases.

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