10,000 sign petition for L3 essential small business to open

From First Up, 5:51 am on 18 August 2020

Nearly 10,000 people have signed a petition calling for butchers, greengrocers and bakeries to operate as normal at alert level 3. Under current rules, they can only operate through contactless collection or delivery, with some seeing a 50 percent drop in business, while others have decided it's not worth it and shut their doors. Businessman Clinton Beuvink told our reporter Louise Ternouth why he launched the petition.