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Natalie Stephens and her husband Chris Stephens, owners of Chris Stephens Hair Design.
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The hasty declaration – just two days after going into tier three – will have consequences, business owners have said.
Matt Styler, joint owner of Don Styler’s Physical Training Centre in Monks Walk, Gosport, said: ‘It is disappointing news. We have a few weeks open and then they close us again.
‘Each time we close down less customers back as they lose momentum or cannot be bothered, probably because they think we will close down again.
‘I think the government will keep doing this until spring now they have created a new tier. It is a way of having a lockdown without calling it a lockdown.