Families braced over prospect of spending Christmas apart
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Hundreds of families across our region are facing the prospect of spending Christmas apart after the new Tier 4 alert was announced by the Prime Minister.
In a press conference at the weekend Boris Johnson revealed that the new "Stay At Home" alert level was coming into force in parts of the country - just when many had planned to make the trip home to their families.
Like Linda Dymott whose home in Keysoe near Bedford is now in Tier 4. She now won't be able to see her daughter Elena who lives in London - which is also a Tier 4 area.
And Linda will also be without her son Ewen, an army reservist stationed in Poland, and her husband Bryn who'll be away looking after his father who is in his 80s and lives alone.
Equally upset is her daughter: