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Shops, haircuts return in April as UK lifts lockdown slowly

by Jill LawlessDanica Kirka
| February 25, 2021 5:15 AM

LONDON (AP) — Children in England will return to class and people will be able to meet a friend outside for coffee in two weeks’ time, Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced Monday as he laid out a slow easing of one of Europe’s strictest pandemic lockdowns.

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