OPEN FOR BUSINESS
This week marks the biggest step towards a return to normal for city centre traders and shoppers.
On Monday, crowds flocked to the Thistles shopping centre after the First Minister gave the nod for indoor malls to open as part of the
The wait to get into Thistles Centre on Monday
latest round of lockdown easing measures.
Queues of up to 50 people lined the streets before the doors opened after more than three months of closure.
Inside the centre there is a oneway system, two metre social distancing and face masks are mandatory — as is the case in all shops.
From today, hairdressers join
other high street businesses as the latest to welcome back customers.
Richard Jeffrey, owner of Toni&Guy Stirling, started taking appointments on Monday and now has a waiting list of 490 people desperate to shed their lockdown locks. He told the Observer: “It’s going to be like Christmas for us in terms of being so busy - we’re booked up to mid-August.”
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