Lancashire in Tier 4: Your reaction to today's bad news

Here's a taste of your reaction to the news, taken from our social channels:

"Tier 4, looks like my biennial haircut is out the window then."

@RickyTBridge68 on Twitter

"Lancashire's in Tier 4 at midnight on New Years Eve. I just want this to end Thank goodness for Netflix, Youtube, music, tv soaps for keeping me sane. Stay safe everyone"

@mishybabez_ on Twitter

"Why isn’t anyone fighting for Lancashire to be split up? Other counties have been. I live in the middle of fields and yet tier 4. I have never been to Blackburn or Burnley in my life. It is getting beyond frustrating and people are getting very angry"

@dwan_kerry on Twitter

"@BorisJohnson @MattHancock well as far as I am concerned that’s the @Conservatives finished , putting the whole of Lancashire in this so called tier 4 Hancock can shove it where the sun don’t shine"

@mark_partington on Twitter

"What happened to the mass community testing Lancashire was promised when we went into tier 3?"

@Libra_Comms on Twitter

"it’s lancashire being in tier three since the end of august and still being slapped into tier four now like aye your restrictions are deffo working :/ not"

@wondrouslyswift on Twitter

"Lancashire in Tier 4 is a joke. So many places reside in Lancashire but all of Lancashire moved to tier 4. How’s that work. How can Southport pr8/9 be tier 2 but Preston pr1-6/7/25/26 be tier 4"

@murrall_90 on Twitter

"@PaulMaynardUK why has Blackpool Fylde and Wyre been moved to Tier 4 when we have amongst the lowest rates of transmission for the new variant in the UK. This is London not following the science when Liverpool is only moving to Tier 3 with similar rates"

@patcuk01 on Twitter

"What will the difference be, realistically?"

Ben Higham

"Well, I never saw that coming! It's really taken me by surprise (said nobody from Lancashire)."

Mames Joss

"Spent all of Xmas in isolation with my little people and loved it so bonus extra time"

Kylie Purkis

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