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11:44 EDT, 3 February 2021 193 shares Police have raided an 'absolutely ridiculous' house party as 30 revellers breached coronavirus restrictions for a birthday bash. Officers were called to Ormskirk in Lancashire at 2.45am on Sunday to break up the rave allegedly hosted by 'bored' Edge Hill University students. Some escaped by climbing out a window but the organiser - a 20-year-old woman - was given a £10,000 fixed penalty notice and nine others were fined £800. One man - Sam Taiwo, 23, from Sheffield - is due in court in April after he was arrested and later charged for shoving an o...

EXCLUSIVE: Nick Smith, 56, was detained at the weekly soup kitchen he set up at his local skate park in Forest Row, East Sussex, because social distancing was reportedly not being observed.

As he is being placed in handcuffs, one onlooker can be heard saying: "Is he that dangerous that you have to handcuff him? You don't have to handcuff him, he's compliant." Another says: "He makes beautiful soup. He's made soup and people gathered and drank a cup of soup." Sussex Police have confirmed a man was arrested, and he has now been issued with a summons to court. A force spokesman said: "Police were called to Station Road in Forest Row at 2.53pm on Monday (25 January) following reports of a regular gathering where social distancing was not being observed and masks were not wor...

Police were called to St Leonards seafront after Deborah Cutting tried to host an illegal dance gathering. The 54-year-old admitted breaching the Coronavirus Act when she appeared before Brighton Magistrates’ Court. She “refused to cease and leave the area” the court was told, and then “refused to give personal details in order for the matter to be dealt with by other means”. Cutting, of Bexhill Road, St Leonards, had organised an event called “Boogie on the Beach”. It is not the first gathering that police have been called to during the Covid-19 lockdown in Sussex. ...

BAR staff and visitors at a restaurant ducked for cover after police caught them flouting coronavirus lockdown rules.