announcement last Friday that close contact services in the beauty industry were not to be re-started the following day came as a body blow to those fantastic (female) entrepreneurs who had so celebrated the opening date of August 1st when it was announced back in July.
Whilst recognising we all want to avoid a second spike of Covid, and the squeezing of the brake pedal came on the advice of the Chief Medical Officer, it devastated hundreds of thousands of salon owners and employees, self-employed therapists and customers who were looking forward to a return to something akin to normality.Far too often trivialised and ridiculed this is a sector that employees 370,000 people, brings £18.4 billion to GDP and on a personal level helps combat.
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