Customer bookings are “absolutely full to the rafters” at a hair and beauty studio in the heart of Birmingham’s Digbeth creative quarter as society takes another step towards normality.
Salon Strand & Lock in the Custard Factory complex staff welcomed its first customer in months on Monday as thousands of non-essential businesses including hairdressers, gyms and outdoor pubs reopened.
Lizzie Hewitt, the salon’s co-owner, said it was “great” to finally be able to open again, but that another lockdown would be “make or break” for their business, which only opened in November 2019.
Lizzie Hewitt said the last month has been difficult (Richard Vernalls/PA)