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Feb 2021
Police issue fine for 200-mile Scotland to Harrogate trip
A person has been fined for driving 200 miles from Glasgow to Harrogate to meet a friend in a motorhome.
The unnamed person was one of seven who received fixed penalty notices in the Harrogate district in the past week for lockdown breaches.
The friend, from Wakefield, was also fined.
A total of 186 fixed penalty notices have been issued for lockdown breaches in North Yorkshire over the last seven days — the most in any week during the third lockdown.
Seven were issued in the Harrogate district — all for visitors to the district.
Since January 6, 55 lockdown fixed penalty notices have been issued in the district, with 39 of them going to visitors.
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North Yorkshire Police Superintendent Mike Walker told a press briefing of the North Yorkshire Local Resilience Forum today the police will continue to target "the reckless minority".
He said:
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