5,500 people call for Bicester Village to shut or improve social-distancing after shoppers flock in droves
Pictures taken this week show thousands of shoppers flocking to the popular Oxfordshire shopping outletCredit: Hyde News & Pictures Ltd
Jake Finlay released a vlog via his YouTube Channel, TheFinlayAdventure, showing how busy the shops were on the first day of reopening.Jack said: “There was very little social distancing taking place, and no one enforcing or telling you to do so, and there was nothing there saying to wear a mask.”Despite there being temperature checks on the way into the village, he said once inside there was very little enforcement of social distancing.
"To see it close under these circumstances would be bad, and I don't really want them to close but they do need to sort these measures out.
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