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The rises are mainly due to local businesses having to invest in protective equipment so they can provide services safely.

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WE can finally get our wild hair tamed . . . but we will be paying between 50p and £5 more to cover the cost of protective gear such as masks.

And some are charging extra to cover the additional work and dye needed to get customers’ hair back in presentable shape.

She is calling for Public Health England to cap charges for protective gear.

CARE homes are adding up to £180 to the normal bills for protective gear and to cover staff sickness.

The Sonos Arc is a soundbar, so it is designed to sit directly under the TV to make your flatscreen sound anything but flat.

Flatscreen TVs don’t have room for speakers that are big enough for decent oomph.

A soundbar solves that and can push out big, punchy sound with strong bass.

It is also the first Sonos with Dolby Atmos.

Dolby Atmos is brilliant?

Think of it as 3D sound – surround-sound without the surrounding speakers.

You will get an even better effect if you have a pair of Sonos One speakers behind the sofa but this is pretty impressive on its own.

You need a specific HDMI socket on your telly for Dolby Atmos to work.

But Dolby Atmos is the icing on the cake.

Bear in mind, though, Sonos last month introduced an app with additional features for its new speakers, such as the Arc?

Some older speakers, such as the original Play 5, do not work with the new app.

Also, there is a Sonos feature called Trueplay which adjusts how the speaker pumps out sound depending on the size of the room and where the Arc is positioned.

Stuck in the corner of a small living room, it will fire out sound differently to when placed in the centre of a big, open-plan living room-kitchen.

But it looks good, is easy to set up and sounds magnificent, giving rich, clear, detailed audio to fill any room.

It doesn’t have Dolby Atmos but it sounds like it does.

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