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In Pictures: Back to the gym, pub, pool, salon and shops

England, Wales and Northern Ireland are all enjoying some relaxation to their coronavirus restrictions on Monday.

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People queued for an early-morning shopping fix as non-essential stores reopened in the latest relaxation of England’s coronavirus lockdown regulations.

Pub gardens and outdoor dining at restaurants were also set to resume as well as gyms, hairdressers, nail salons and zoos.

Wales was also enjoy renewed freedoms from Monday, with non-essential retail reopened and border restrictions eased to permit travel again with the rest of the UK and Ireland. The “stay at home” order in Northern Ireland also ended, with more people permitted to meet outdoors.

Shoppers in St David’s Shopping Centre in Cardiff
Shoppers in St David’s Shopping Centre in Cardiff (Adam Hale/PA)
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John Witts enjoys a drink at the reopening of the Figure of Eight pub in Birmingham (Jacob King/PA)
People enjoy the attractions at Alton Towers in Staffordshire (Jacob King/PA)
People enjoy the attractions at Alton Towers in Staffordshire (Jacob King/PA)
People at Beamish Museum near Stanley, Co Durham, the open-air museum after it reopened to visitors (Owen Humphreys/PA)
People at Beamish Museum near Stanley, Co Durham, the open-air museum after it reopened to visitors (Owen Humphreys/PA)
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Friends Sue Bell (middle) and Pippa Ingram receive their drinks after being the first customers back at the Royal Victoria Pavilion in Ramsgate, Kent (Gareth Fuller/PA)
Prime Minister Boris Johnson emerging from Downing Street with a haircut after the easing of restrictions (Aaron Chown/PA)
Prime Minister Boris Johnson emerging from Downing Street with a haircut after the easing of restrictions (Aaron Chown/PA)
Customers enjoy a drink at the Escape to Freight Island bar in Depot Island, Manchester (Martin Rickett/PA)
Customers enjoy a drink at the Escape to Freight Island bar in Depot Island, Manchester (Martin Rickett/PA)
A woman has her hair coloured at the reopening of Flint Hair in Norwich
A woman has her hair coloured at the reopening of Flint Hair in Norwich (Joe Giddens/PA)
Customers enjoy a drink at the reopening of the Terrace Bar at Alexandra Palace, London (Kirsty O'Connor/PA)
Customers enjoy a drink at the reopening of the Terrace Bar at Alexandra Palace, London (Kirsty O’Connor/PA)
Siblings play with git=ant teddy bear
Siblings Lyla and Leo Stevens-Pierce play with a giant teddy bear at Hamleys toy store on Regent Street, London (Victoria Jones/PA)
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