badgerx16

The problem in interpretation is that whilst the Guidelines state "village, town, part of city', the actual Law leaves it to the discretion of the Police, and does not contain that phrase, ( as far as I can make out ).

To be fair to Egg, it's the advice updated on Jan 5th 2021.

Badger; We stay at home all day every day other than to take exercise, which currrently isn't done every day, and once a week go shopping. Question; if everybody in the country followed the regs as closely / loosely as I do, would the figures be going up ? Egg; No they wouldn't. People move, not viruses. As for 'local is local', perhaps there is an advantage to living in the sticks with 'local' access to wide open, sparsely populated spaces.

That is hardly WSS's fault. He was provided with guidance by a 'local' Police officer. Perhaps you should direct your ire at the Officer and point out forcefully the fault in his/her interpretation of the Law.

Come on then, oh great and wise one, give us a strict metric on 'local'. And you accept, therefore, that I am actually living a compliant lifestyle at present. Thankyou.

And until the regulations state otherwise, a 9 mile ride out across the salt marsh, then going back home, is not breaking them. We stay at home all day every day other than to take exercise, which currrently isn't done every day, and once a week go shopping. Question; if everybody in the country followed the regs as closely / loosely as I do, would the figures be going up ?

Less cars on the road, less chance of a cyclist being knocked off. And I've had the bloody disease - I caught it at home, my son fetched it from work.

Bullshit !!!!!

Still comes down, currently, to an extremely loose definition of 'local'. I seem to recall in LD1 they said an hour's exercise, which for me meant I could go 9 miles out and 9 miles back. If they want to define 'local' as 5 miles, so be it. But currently the regs permit me to do what I do.

Sort of defeats the purpose of cycling as a form of exercise. Even the least proficient cyclist will probably be doing 12 miles in an hour.

I can ride due East from my home, during the day, for 9 miles and not see another soul other than those travelling in vehicles. The road passes across largely uninhabited salt marsh. Alternatively I can divert slightly to the South and ride across the drained peat moss, again ending up 9 miles from home, and meeting a similar number of people. How far from my home counts as 'local' ?

Riding bikes is not contrary to the guidance, driving for a walk in the country is not. In fact, both are encouraged as you are supposed to get out and take exercise.

First, the Govt would have to produce a definitive list of who qualifies as a key worker. Is a shelf stacker in Sainsbury's ? Is a railway track maintainance worker ? Is a bus driver ? Is a dustbin man ?

And it could be argued that CoViD patients are taking resources from victims of cardiac arrest or severe pulmonary problems. There are a limited number of ICU beds and multiple ways to end up there.

Icy roads mean more. Less traffic means the potential for more careless driving. We could argue this back and forth, but even if you stay locked up at home you could fall down the stairs.

So having a "good reason" prevents crashes ?

My son's best friend from school is their GK.

Why don't they ban car driving then ? How many people are seriously injured every day in crashes and end up in hospital ? Whilst they are at it, ban the sale of power tools to reduce the risk of nasty accidents.

What if all the pedestrians he passed were within half a mile of his home, either on the outbound or inbound stretches ? The advantage of cycling in the countryside is precisely that you will meet far fewer people, and be further away from them. You will get closer to people, and come across more of them, if you are out for a walk than you will on a bike.

They never found out who planted the pipe bombs outside Leave.eu's offices.

One was arrested leaving the site with 2 concealed hand guns.

A European scheme budgeted at £160m on the UK side replaced with a Worldwide version funded by £100m. And the immigration policy we now have is exactly the same as the one we always had, except it now applies to the EU27 as well.

Derbyshire Police are reviewing fixed penalty notices; "But in a statement, the force said further guidance issued by the National Police Chiefs Council (NPCC) had "clarified the policing response concerning travel and exercise". The guidance said: "The Covid regulations which officers enforce and which enables them to issue FPNs [fixed penalty notices] for breaches, do not restrict the distance travelled for exercise." The NPCC added that rather than issue fines for people who travel out of their local area "but are not breaching regulations, officers will encourage people to follow the guidance".

Transcript of a voicemail message meant for newly elected republican Senator Tuberville from Rudi Giuliani, whilst the Senator was in lockdown at the Capitol during the riot. ( Rudi rang the phone of a different Senator by mistake ); "Sen. Tuberville? Or I should say Coach Tuberville. This is Rudy Giuliani, the President's lawyer," he said according to to the transcript. "I'm calling you because I want to discuss with you how they're trying to rush this hearing and how we need you, our Republican friends, to try to just slow it down so we can get these legislatures to get more information to you," Giuliani said, referring to unfounded claims of voter fraud in the presidential election. "I know they're reconvening at 8 tonight, but it ... the only strategy we can follow is to object to numerous states and raise issues so that we get ourselves into tomorrow -- ideally until the end of tomorrow." This was a follow-up to a call Trump made to Tuberville a hour or so earlier, ( also during the lockdown ), again to the wrong phone. In that case the phone was passed to Tuberville, who spent 10 minutes talking with Trump before the call was stopped when Senators were moved to a more secure location. So whilst the riot that he instigated was occurring, Trump was still attempting to find a way to thwart the due process.

Enjoy the rest of your evening and make the most of having a weekend off from watching Saints.