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Police fined Covid rule-breakers £200 for driving 150 miles to the Cotswolds because ‘it is very hard to go shopping’ in London as the crackdown on lockdown flouters during the third national shutdown continues. In Gloucestershire, police fined tourists from London in Lower Slaughter and walkers at popular destination Bourton-on-the-Water yesterday. An irritated Cotswold Police … Read more
Footage has emerged revealing police officers fining 26 people who attended an illegal poker night in Birmingham on the same day £800 fines were introduced. Body-worn camera footage showed at least five officers outside the door of a flat in Birmingham after they were called to a report of a large gathering in the early … Read more
Britons are being targeted by scammers with fraudulent calls and text messages claiming that they must pay a fine for breaching lockdown rules, Ofcom warned. The racketeering messages purport to come from the UK Government, the NHS, people’s local GP surgeries and even the World Health Organisation (WHO). They aim to trick unsuspecting members of … Read more
Off-road driver who got stuck while trying to take his Land Rover up a Welsh snow-covered mountain and had to be rescued is fined £200 for breaking lockdown rules North Wales Police’s rural crime team were forced to rescue a man after his 4×4 vehicle became stuck at Ruabon Mountain, an area of special scientific … Read more
Welsh police threatened to fine customers who went to a farm shop to buy their milk, telling them they should get it from a supermarket instead. Officers turned people away from a milk vending machine set up in Berthengam, near Holywell in Flintshire, Wales, after a dairy farm noticed supermarkets struggled to meet the demand for … Read more
More than £15,000 in fines has been handed out after police shut down an illegal rave attended by more than 300 people in east London. Officers from the Metropolitan Police attended a venue under a railway arch on Nursery Road in Hackney in the early hours of Sunday morning. Loud music was heard coming from … Read more
Post-Brexit hiccups ‘will add £1.50 to a bottle of fine wine’ Extra paperwork and haulage costs due to Brexit could add £1.50 to wine bottles Wine importers have warned the new export documents would push prices up Research found around 28m British consumers drink wine at least once a month By Glen Owen and James … Read more
George Clooney recalled the time he came to the set of his 1996 romantic comedy One Fine Day while smelling like a ‘distillery’ in a new conversation with his costar Michelle Pfeiffer. The 59-year-old Oscar winner opened up about his boozy day of work and an unfortunate eye injury while chatting with Pfeiffer, 62, for … Read more
People attending illegal house parties will face £800 fines from next week as police tighten their clampdown on coronavirus rule-breaking. Home Secretary Priti Patel announced the hefty penalty just for people going to illicit events this evening as she lashed out at people aiding the spread of Covid. The fines will double for each repeat … Read more
This is the shocking moment police raid an illegal party in a marquee with 50 revellers inside. Bodycam footage shows police officers storming in and breaking up the gathering in Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire, on New Year’s Eve. Bedfordshire Police has handed the organiser a £10,000 fine after giving them a warning following a tip-off, but … Read more