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Daily Record
Daily Record
National
Neil Pooran

Final travel ban to north-west England lifted by Scottish Government

A ban on travel to north-west England is being fully removed by the Scottish Government.

Restrictions on non-essential travel to Blackburn with Darwen Borough Council will be lifted from Thursday.

It was the final ban remaining on that region of England.

Travel restrictions on Manchester, Salford and Bolton were removed last week.

The bans were controversial, and led to a political bust-up between Greater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham and Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon.

On Wednesday, Scotland's public health minister Maree Todd said: "We have been carefully monitoring the situation in Scotland and across the common travel area and following a weekly review, we will ease travel arrangements between Scotland and Blackburn.

"Nobody wants travel restrictions in place for any longer than is absolutely necessary.

"Restrictions on non-essential travel between Scotland and parts of north west England were introduced in line with evidence, and have been removed as the situation has changed."

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