Here's a list of business which can stay open in Milton Keynes during the national lockdown

With the country being placed into a national lockdown on Monday (January 4) by Prime Minister Boris Johnson, here's which business are able to stay open in the town.

A government spokesperson said businesses providing essential goods and services can stay open.

These include:

• essential retail such as food shops, supermarkets, pharmacies, garden centres, building merchants and suppliers of building products and off-licences

• market stalls selling essential retail may also stay open

• businesses providing repair services may also stay open, where they primarily offer repair services

• petrol stations, automatic (but not manual) car washes, vehicle repair and MOT services, bicycle shops, and taxi and vehicle hire businesses

• banks, building societies, post offices, short-term loan providers and money transfer businesses

• funeral directors

• laundrettes and dry cleaners

• medical and dental services

• vets and retailers of products and food for the upkeep and welfare of animals

• animal rescue centres, boarding facilities and animal groomers (may continue to be used for animal welfare, rather than aesthetic purposes)

• agricultural supplies shops

• mobility and disability support shops

• storage and distribution facilities

• car parks, public toilets and motorway service areas

• outdoor playgrounds

• outdoor parts of botanical gardens and heritage sites for exercise

• places of worship

• crematoriums and burial grounds