LARGE queues have formed outside Primark this morning as shoppers descend on the city centre.
Non-essential and pub gardens are allowed to open across the UK today as lockdown restrictions are eased.
Primark fans are now able to shop at the store for the first time this year as the outlet does not have an online option.
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Queues formed outside the Western Road branch in Brighton city centre long before its 9am opening.
Eager shoppers were seen lining Crown Street - with one describing the reopening as being "like Christmas".
An auntie and niece braced the frosty weather in hopes of a bargain.
Steph Young, 37, right, said: “I’m here just for the laugh of it really.
"I’ve been really looking forward to shopping.
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"It’s been a whole year of not shopping so this is the best thing”
Her niece Kyla Young, 20, said: “I’ve just had a baby so none of my clothes really fit me now.”
In September, The Argus reported how frustrated residents in Crown Street were thinking about selling their homes due to the nuisance.
The number of people allowed in the store has been limited due to the coronavirus pandemic.
As a result, large queues of shoppers are directed up the road while they wait their turn to enter the fashion retailer.
But residents in the street said they were at their wits’ end, claiming some shoppers were not socially distancing, blocking entrances to properties, dropping cigarette butts and setting off car alarms.
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“Some of us have wanted to sell our houses, but we have no chance with Primark allowing queues like this,” resident Richy Charles said.
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