Early-morning shoppers gather outside the JD Sports store in Oxford Street, London, waiting for the store to reopen (Aaron Chown/PA) People queued up outside retailers across England on Monday to release their pent-up shopping fever and some grabbed a midnight pint or even an early haircut as England’s shops, pubs, gyms and hairdressers reopened after three months of lockdown. After imposing the most onerous restrictions in Britain’s peacetime history, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said the reopening was a “major step” towards freedom but urged people to behave responsibly as the coronavirus was still a threat. As the sun rose, people queued up outside Primark in Birmingham, England’s second city, and outside JD Sports on Oxford Street in London.