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More schools have shelved plans to reopen on Monday, after new data suggested coronavirus could still be spreading in the north west of England.
Health officials at Blackburn and Darwen council, which runs 85 schools in Lancashire, reportedly emailed local schools on Friday evening advising them not to reopen to more pupils on Monday morning.
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A street market which has been operating for over 600 years has reopened more than two months after closing in the wake of the coronavirus crisis.
Traders at the Saturday market in Lymington, Hampshire, last sold their wares on 21 March.
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