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- - The four UK nations have agreed to allow the easing of Covid rules over Christmas but are issuing stronger advice and are urging people to be 'cautious'
- - A "shorter Christmas is a safer Christmas" said Prime Minister Boris Johnson and while the country will win the battle against coronavirus we must "hold our nerve" and exercise "extreme caution"
- - The rules allow three households to form a bubble from December 23 to 27 but this is a "maximum not a target" says the PM.
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