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Beauty salon owner who gave illegal manicures during Covid lockdown fined £1000
coronavirus lockdown for refusing to close her business has been fined £1,000 for the defiant act.Natalie Hewitt, 32, did not close her Wales-based Smooch Nails & Beauty salon at the start of the year, when the area was on alert level four.This meant that all non-essential businesses had to close, but Ms Hewitt refused to do so, Wales Online reports.It was during a check of the area but Wrexham County Borough Council, on January 13, that enforcement officers found that the owner was inside “painting the nails” of a woman, who was part of an non-socially distanced group.She then refused to answer the door to the officer, or two PCSOs who had since turned up.She denied breaking the rules, insisting, in court later, that she had been “alone”