Three friends from Banbury given Covid-19 lockdown fines for driving 21 miles to Stow-on-the-Wold
Police fined three friends from Banbury today, Thursday January 14, who drove together 21 miles to Stow on the Wold.
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Cotswolds Police with the Gloucestershire Constabulary issued £200 fines to each of the three people for breaking Covid-19 lockdown rules.
Cotswolds Police issued the following statement about the fines via their Twitter feed: "Three friends who had driven 21 miles to Stow on the Wold from Oxfordshire have been fined £200 each for breaking lockdown rules. Officers stated that they had no reasonable excuse to be in a car together so far from home."
Officers with the Cotswolds Police confirmed the three friends had travelled from Banbury.