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Coronavirus: 'I was asked for £430 a month for my shut nursery'By Daniel ThomasBusiness reporter, BBC News 7 April 2020 Related TopicsCoronavirus pandemic Image copyrightFarrah SharifWhen Farrah Sharif, 30, was told she would have to continue paying 80% of her two-year-old son's nursery fees to hold his place in the coming months, she was confused.Like millions of other parents she had already taken him out of their East London nursery because of government guidelines, so she didn't feel she should pay anything."We asked them whether they would be applying for the government's worker retention scheme and the other financial support, but they were really unclear."Lots of parents complained and they said they would drop the fees by another 40%, but we still didn't feel that was right. So we said we would pay for March and then review the situation."To her surprise the nursery emailed her back and said it was taking her son Zayn off the register, sugge…