Are covid fines for travelling out of your area legally enforceable in court?

GaleSF63

2childmum2 said:

TheShape said:

wannabe_a_saver said:

I went two counties over yesterday.  Journey was just under 5 miles.  

I posted recently that I could take a five minute bike ride and have been in three London Boroughs during that trip.  I took a walk today and crossed the boundary of my London Borough and one of the Home Counties.  I've realised that I could actually travel through three London Boroughs and one of the Home Counties in under 15 minutes.

I can walk through 3 London Boroughs in 5 mins where I live - right at the point where they all meet

It's over 100 miles from one end of the district to the other where I live. 

Thrugelmir

marmite1979 said:

dee100 said:

I want to travel 11.3 miles to nearest small city. because I like to get away from my tiny town
I saw over 50 people today who likely travelled further then that to get to my town..
will stop and ask more people tomorrow. A couple said they were from elsewhere in the county, how far, I don't know...

 then reduce the bus funding to a pittance meaning many need to hang around for hours and risk getting dirty looks and questioned off the locals

Majority of people prefer to drive. We live in an era where people cannot leave their homes to collect a takeaway or get out of their cars to buy a coffee. Going to require a seismic change of culture to encourage them to plan their lives around public transport.  Going green is somebody elses problem to many people. 

unforeseen

GaleSF63 said:

2childmum2 said:

TheShape said:

wannabe_a_saver said:

I went two counties over yesterday.  Journey was just under 5 miles.  

I posted recently that I could take a five minute bike ride and have been in three London Boroughs during that trip.  I took a walk today and crossed the boundary of my London Borough and one of the Home Counties.  I've realised that I could actually travel through three London Boroughs and one of the Home Counties in under 15 minutes.

I can walk through 3 London Boroughs in 5 mins where I live - right at the point where they all meet

It's over 100 miles from one end of the district to the other where I live. 

For me it's 2 fields west and I'm in Wales, 2 miles down the road and I'm in a different county which is where the nearest supermarket is. 

CKhalvashi

MattMattMattUK said:

marmite1979 said:

Ask the government why they cut and centralise services, allow Banks/Post Offices to close,

Largely because a lot of services do not need a local branch or office, so there is cost saving to the taxpayer and it would be reasonable to expect private enterprise to shoulder the cost of keeping bank and Post Office branches open when there is little demand. 

Due to the very low demand for branches banks are even investigating the option of multi-brand branches, where all the local banks would consolidate into one branch which offered counter services on behalf of them all, however they are unsure how to work out splitting the cost (on a customer usage basis, fixed fee etc.) as well as issues with all the different banks running independent IT systems. 

The pandemic has proven that many people can work from home, a lot (although not all) meetings can be done online (from regular meetings, interviews and even government services), even some basic GP appointments can be conducted online (hopefully freeing up in-practice time for those that can not). There are very few reasons to need bank branches any more, I have not used one in years, 58% of people visit less than once a year, only 16% of people visit once a month or more and 99.75% of those visits could be accomplished online. The only regular visitors with limited other options are cash handling businesses and cash is a relic, with more than 90% of businesses who currently accept cash looking to phase it out within five years and 96% wanting to actively discourage it's use. 

I have to ask why they're not in this case.

We decided last June that we won't be accepting cash any longer as we attempted to restart operations.

The cost of counting cash and sending someone to the bank with it with any reasonable frequency has outstripped the actual income for cash in the last 2 full trading years. I'm sure that many businesses are in the same position.

Cashless for us = card for 1 business, card/direct debit for the second (with bank transfers allowed for B2B transactions) and bank transfer/direct debit for the third.

GeorgeThomas123

Someone told me about this that people are coming from other countries for holidays in UK and we are not allowed to go out. So yes it is true i think

nyermen

GeorgeThomas123 said:

Someone told me about this that people are coming from other countries for holidays in UK and we are not allowed to go out. So yes it is true I think

If you asked me a few days ago I would have said don't be ridiculous.  But now I would say I don't know - I had to go into the office in Paddington, which has the Heathrow express service, and I was very surprised by the number of people with big travel wheelie bags (groups of people with kids not just obvious business travellers).  So there is travel going on, why I couldn't say as I didn't consider it my business.

silvercar

GeorgeThomas123 said:

Someone told me about this that people are coming from other countries for holidays in UK and we are not allowed to go out. So yes it is true i think

Anyone on a British passport or visa has a legal right of entry. Once here they have to comply with all UK laws, including those relating to covid. Currently they have to isolate for at least 10 days, take 2 PCR tests plus a third if they want to test to release after 5 days.