Retailers had voiced their concern over losing two days’ trading as they would be banned from opening on Saturday as the Island celebrated Liberation Day.

Under normal trading laws, the majority of Island shops would also have been prevented from opening yesterday.

But Economic Development Minister Alan Maclean last week came to the traders’ rescue by announcing that an Islandwide ‘festival’ would be declared on Sunday, allowing shops to open.

The scene in King Street yesterday lunchtime. Picture by Peter Mourant (00688566)