LIVE updates as Derbyshire welcomes customers back inside as lockdown eases
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For many bars, eateries, museums cafes and restaurants the latest relaxing of Covid-19 rules couldn’t come a moment too soon, despite caution over the so-called Indian variant.
Pubs cafes and restaurants in Chesterfield and north Derbyshire are opening their doors, inside, rather than outside this time to diners again for the first time in months.
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Live updates as indoor hospitality reopens in Chesterfield and across north Derbyshire
Key Events
- Lockdown restrictions ease further as pubs and restuarants welcome customers back indoors
- Outdoor performances such as outdoor cinemas, outdoor theatres and outdoor cinemas can reopen
- Entertainment venues such as cinemas and children’s play areas; the rest of the accommodation sector, and indoor adult group sports and exercise classes also allowed to resume
- Up to 30 people will be able to attend weddings, receptions and wakes, as well as funerals
- PM calls for a “heavy dose of caution” as indoor socialising and physical contact resumes
- Derbyshire public health director warns people should enjoy new freedoms ‘safely'
Anticipation as punters return to town's well-loved pubs
Another pub reopening today is JD Wetherspoon’s The Spa Lane Vaults, on St Mary’s Gate.
Eddie Gerson, Wetherspoon spokesman, said: “The pub has been closed for a long time and it will be great to see the pub busy once again.”
Chesterfield pubs, cafes and restaurants celebrate serving customers indoors from today
Koo, a popular bistro and cafe on Chatsworth Road, was one of the thousands of businesses that reopened on April 12 but with only eight outdoor tables, the brunch spot is keen to welcome people back inside.
Owner Sian Spencer-Bray said: “We are really excited about opening indoors, there is quite a lot of uncertainty when it comes to seating outside especially with the weather as people are cancelling when the weather isn’t great.”
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