All pubs and restaurants in Bolton have been ordered to shut to anyone eating and drinking on-site in a major coronavirus crackdown.
Hospitality venues, which also include bars and cafes, will only be able to remain open as takeaways in the town - effective immediately.
And they will also have to shut entirely between 10pm and 5am, after cases surged among young people. Restrictions were tightened today in the Greater Manchester town after it became England's worst hotspot for Covid-19 - with 120 new cases per 100,000 people.
It is the first town in England since Leicester where all pubs and restaurants have, effectively, been told to shut. Matt Hancock announced the move in the House of Commons after the "very significant rise" in local