Our photographer NEIL CROSS was out and about on the streets of Preston to see how the day went.
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Market towns particularly benefited from the reopening of shops, reporting a 96.8% jump in footfall, while shopper numbers in central London jumped by 59.4%.
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But footfall across the country was still significantly lower than it was on the same day of last year
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The data shows footfall across shopping destinations in England was down 24.1% against the same period last year.
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