Sign up for the latest from M.E.N. political editor Jennifer Williams Prime Minister Boris Johnson has issued a stark warning just 24 hours after stage two of coronavirus lockdown restriction easing took place.
As pubs, restaurants and bars were allowed to reopen outdoors in England, and non-essential retail returned and gyms opened, shoppers and drinkers returned to the high streets in their droves.
It prompted the Prime Minister to say: "It's great that we have managed to achieve the target of getting everyone in the one to nine (priority) groups vaccinated by the deadline, by the timetable – a little bit ahead actually, 32 million people now have got their first dose, which is terrific. “We are going now to the 45-49 group, they are