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Police may investigate why people are travelling if their journey is suspected of breaching Covid-19 rules, Scotland s chief constable has said.
Travel between Scotland and the rest of the UK is currently prohibited in law for all but essential reasons.
Chief Constable Iain Livingstone has said he does not want to set up roadblocks or checkpoints.
But he said officers would carry out some investigation where they suspect a flagrant breach of the rules.
First Minister Nicola Sturgeon appealed to people to abide by travel restrictions whether you are likely to be stopped or not , saying they are imperative to slowing the spread of the virus.
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Hundreds of passengers at London s Heathrow Airport scrambled onto the last flight to Dublin, Ireland
France, Germany, Israel, El Salvador, Bulgaria, the Netherlands, Italy, Finland, Denmark, Turkey, Morocco, Canada, Belgium, Austria, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Ireland have banned all flights from Britain
Boris Johnson will chair a meeting of the Government’s Cobra civil contingencies committee on Monday after a series of countries announced they were stopping flights from the UK, Downing Street has said
Eurotunnel Le Shuttle has said that the UK-France border will close at 11pm tonight and last train at 9.24pm
Southern England was plunged into a Tier 4 lockdown in a bid to suppress a mutant strain of coronavirus
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Passengers travelling from Britain to Germany late on Sunday night were left stranded at airport terminals
Germany s travel ban forced 63 people arriving in Hanover to sleep on campbeds as they awaited test results
Dozens of countries have since moved to shut down flights from the UK over the new virus strain
British Airways has agreed to force New York-bound passengers to get tested before their flight from Tuesday
Boris Johnson put London and much of the South East back into lockdown because of the new Covid variant
New-wave of bans mean the already hard-hit travel industry is set to take a further £400million hit this week
Scots warned don t chance it amid travel ban as cops double patrols at border
Patrols are doubling but there will not be road blocks at the Scotland-England border
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The Scotland-England border on the A68 near Jedburgh. (Image: Jane Barlow/PA Wire)
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POLICE will engage with people on the move when a blanket travel ban is brought in across Scotland, the country s most senior police officer has said. Chief Constable of Police Scotland Iain Livingstone issued the warning in wake of tough measures – including a national travel ban – announced to stop a more infectious strain of the coronavirus taking hold after an upsurge in cases in London and the south east of England. Speaking at the Scottish Government s daily briefing on the pandemic, Livingstone said there would be an increase in officers patrols across the country to enforce the travel ban and warned Scots don t chance it .