Police extinguished a beach barbecue with a helmet in Brighton while windsurfers were fined for driving 125 miles from the West Midlands to North wales to enjoy the waves.
Footage showed two Sussex Police officers pouring water on the flames at Brighton beach on Saturday.
Twitter user Dave Strauss filmed the officers’ confrontation with two people sat at the seaside.
Uploading the video, he wrote: ‘The ceremonial extinguishing of the bbq using a beach patrol guys helmet. Then tried to eat his wet sausage.’
Pictured: Sussex Police in Brighton confront two people having a barbecue despite the lockdown rules
Sussex Police officers are pictured confronting two people on Brighton beach as they had a barbecue despite the UK lockdown
Social media users commented underneath branding them ‘morons’ and ‘bloody idiots’.
Police say the couple became abusive towards Police Community Support Officers when asked to leave.
They have been summonsed to court and will be charged under the new Coronavirus Act, The Argus reports. A 31-year-old man and a 48-year-old woman were told to return home.
It came after two windsurfers were fined after driving 125 miles from the West Midlands to North Wales to enjoy the waves as police blasted their non-essential trip.
The pair travelled to Gwynedd from Birmingham despite the nationwide lockdown amid the coronavirus pandemic.
North Wales Police said they went to Black Rock Sands in Porthmadog to head out into the sea despite people being told to only travel for essential reasons.
The windsurfers were stopped at the Welsh coast and fined as police warned their travel was not essential amid the coronavirus outbreak
The force said that if they had got into difficulty in the water, they could have tied up valuable resources.
A spokesman said: ‘Today two males from the West Mids area were reported by concerned members of the public who spotted them wind surfing at Black Rock Sands, Porthmadog.
‘They were issued with penalty notices and advised to return home immediately. Their trip was not essential, and apart from the risks posed by travelling around the country potentially spreading virus anywhere they stopped, they could have tied up valuable resources had they had an accident or got into difficulty at sea, risking RNLI, ambulance and diverting essential NHS resources. ‘Stay home to save lives.’
A biker was spotted taunting a police officer in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, who was trying to approach him on a bicycle.
The motorbike rider mocked him in footage in which he could be heard saying: ‘Come on, nearly, f****** hell.’
The biker (left) can be heard mocking the police officer (right) who approaches him on a bicycle
One family travelled 122 miles for a day at the beach – despite orders to stay at home to save lives.
The group flouted strict lockdown measures to make the two hour and 20 minute round trip from Bromley, south east London, to Folkestone in Kent.
They were let off with a warning as the council reminded residents ‘this is not a public holiday’.
Yesterday sadly saw deaths climb by 621 to 4,934 and cases rise by 5,903 to 47,806 across the UK.
The rise came as the Met Police used a loudspeaker on Wandsworth Common, south-west London, to disperse people in the park.
Two young men ignored the coronavirus lockdown and leapt into the River Irwell in Manchester city centre. The Manchester Evening News has been inundated with reports of people ignoring the Government’s advice to stay at home this weekend to help prevent the spread of Covid-19.
Two young men ignored the coronavirus lockdown and leapt into the River Irwell (pictured) in Manchester
A woman is told to go home by a police officer in London’s Primrose Hill to stop the spread of coronavirus
People in Roath park in Cardiff are spoken to by police amid the social distancing advice
A group of around 15 people were pictured playing football in a park in Rusholme, south Manchester.
And the daughter of an intensive care nurse shared images of people flouting the measures with picnics, sunbathing and riding a quad bike in Debdale Park in Gorton.
Housing and Communities Secretary Robert Jenrick said on Monday that he had called local leaders to warn them to be ‘very judicious’ in locking open spaces.
One London authority closed a park over the weekend after reporting thousands of visitors flocking to it to enjoy the sun and warmth breaking through.
But there are concerns public confidence could be lost if those in power with gardens and ample living space tell those who live in crowded conditions they cannot go to the park or exercise outdoors.
Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick suggested the current lockdown measures could be gradually eased after Easter
Mr Jenrick agreed he has a ‘lot of sympathy’ with those concerns as he said he had spoken to ‘a number’ of councils who had closed parks over the weekend.
He also suggested the current lockdown measures could be gradually eased after Easter – he stressed a full exit strategy will require much more testing.
In a series of interviews, he said that if an excess capacity is maintained across the NHS following the building of coronavirus hospitals, restrictions may lift.
‘If we can do that then we can look in the weeks to come to begin to very carefully… lift some of those measures,’ he said.
‘But an exit strategy that’s sustainable will also have to be accompanied by much greater testing and tracing than we are able to do today.’
It came after Scotland’s chief medical officer resigned after she admitted to ignoring her own lockdown advice.
The images, published in the Scottish Sun, emerged amid continuing advice from the Scottish government to stay at home in order to save lives and protect the NHS
Earlsferry, Fife, is 44 miles away from Edinburgh – a drive of around an hour
Last week Dr Calderwood, 51, tweeted a photo of her family from their main residence in Edinburgh as they clapped for the front-line NHS staff working to stop the spread of Covid-19
Dr Catherine Calderwood had earlier apologised live on TV after being given a police warning for twice visiting her family’s coastal retreat in Earlsferry, Fife, more than 40 miles from her main home.
In a press conference beside Scotland’s First Minister Nicola Sturgeon today, Dr Calderwood said her actions were ‘a mistake and human error’ and that were ‘no excuses’.
Dr Calderwood issued an apology and was initially backed by First Minister Nicola Sturgeon to remain in the role.
Photographs, published in The Scottish Sun on Saturday, showed Dr Calderwood and her family near their coastal retreat in Earlsferry, Fife, over the weekend.
In the press conference, Dr Calderwood also admitted to visiting the cottage with her husband the previous weekend.
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