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Nursery bounces back after 'devastating' lockdown to celebrate first birthday

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Oldham nursery that opened three weeks before the first national lockdown has celebrated its first birthday after the owner paid staff out of her own pocket to keep them on.

Shine a Light Day Nursery, run by 52-year-old Jane Marsh, reached the milestone today, March 2, after a turbulent year. The new childcare facility in St Phillip's Drive, Royton, was forced to close just three weeks after its opening as a low number of key worker children made it impossible to keep going.

Mrs Marsh described that moment as “devastating”.She said: “We were two weeks in and everything was going really well, we had really small numbers because we’d just opened but we were growing nicely.“Then we started seeing the news.“We were contacted the week leading up.

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