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Philip Dewey & Ellen Kirwin

Welsh government gives update on travel rules from England into Wales

The Welsh Government will be announcing the results of its latest review on restrictions next week.

Wales Online reports, that First Minister Mark Drakeford offered some guidance on when and how he expects to ease rules in Wales.

He has said that changes will be minor and gradual but early reports suggest that restrictions on non-essential retail and close contact services such as hairdressers and tattoo artists may be making a come back.

The biggest lift in restrictions could be the end of the ban on all but essential travel with the current 'stay at home' rule changes to 'stay local'.

However travel to and from Wales isn't looking likely anytime soon.

The 'stay local' rule would only apply to those living in Wales and not from other areas of the UK.

Speaking on BBC Radio Wales on Sunday Mark Drakeford said : "We will be looking carefully at whether an intermediate period of stay local - people are used to that, we had a period of that last year in Wales - would be a first step on a journey."

Speaking at a Welsh Government press briefing on Friday, Health Minister Vaughan Gething said people shouldn't travel from England into Wales.

He said: "We have said we may be able to lift stay at home. We are considering what that then means. We are thinking about whether there will be a stay local period or whether there should be travel permitted across the whole of Wales.

"That is a choice that the government needs to make and we haven't concluded that.

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"But there are, I think, very easy to understand arguments about why we would want to have a period of 'stay local' before moving to wider travel and it is important to remember that at this point in time the restrictions in England mean that people shouldn’t be travelling from England into Wales.

"We know that the reality of essential travel for work is one thing but there shouldn’t be travel for leisure at this point in time."

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