Covid restrictions are being eased in Northern Ireland today, with hairdressers and beauty salons allowed to reopen for the first time since St Stephen's Day.
Visits to outdoor attractions and the resumption of competitive sport for affiliated clubs can also resume without spectators.
Driving lessons and test can also restart. This time next week, all non-essential retail will open, beer gardens and and outdoor unlicensed venues like cafes will be back in business.
Northern Ireland’s First and Deputy First Ministers have had many differences in recent months, but today they share the same ambition: a visit to the hairdressers. "Speaking for myself and watching these photographs going into people’s homes, they will know that I am very much