A UK bride-to-be has been left “disappointed and upset” after cancelling her honeymoon due to the travel ban between Scotland and Manchester and Salford
Ms Sturgeon recently announced new travel restrictions to either Manchester or Salford due to concern over covid infection levels.
Salford local Rachel Godiff, 30, already had to cancel her dream honeymoon to Greece due to Covid restrictions and instead opted to travel to Edinburgh.
But now Miss Godiff has had no option but to cancel again, telling BBC Radio Manchester that she and her fiancé find the travel ban “unfair.”
She told the Radio station: “We were supposed to go abroad.
"As it is we are getting married in Salford on Saturday and we have nowhere to go.
"It's just one thing after another. It feels like nothing is going to plan.
"Everything we want to do is being changed. We were really excited about it and then suddenly find out we are not able to go.”
Rachel told how it "seems unfair" that the trip was cancelled as she has been double vaccinated, while her husband-to-be has had one dose of the Covid jab.
The couple shares a three-year-old daughter they planned on taking with them, who was ‘excited about going on an open-top bus in Edinburgh.’
It comes as Nicola Sturgeon and Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham got into a ‘war of words’ over the decision.
The frustrated Mayor said: “The Scottish Government can’t just impose things on parts of the north of England with no discussion with us.
“That is simply wrong and they need to live by the same standards that they always call for from others.”
He also accused Sturgeon of "treating the North of England with contempt."
But Nicola Sturgeon hit back at the Labour politician, accusing him of seeking to "generate a spat.”
The First Minister was asked about Mr Burnham's reaction on BBC News on Monday. She said: "These are public health measures.
"I have a duty, and it's one I take very seriously, to keep Scotland as safe as possible.
"I'm sure Andy Burnham feels the same sense of duty toward people in the Greater Manchester area.
"I've always got on well with Andy Burnham and if he wants to have a grown-up conversation he only has to pick up the phone.
"But if, as I suspect might be the case, this is more about generating a spat with me as part of some positioning in a Labour leadership contest in future, then I'm not interested.
"We've all got a serious job of work to do right now and I'm serious about doing that job in a way that keeps Scotland as safe as I possibly can."
