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Mar 2021
Last Updated: 17/03/2021
Two men fined for travelling to Knaresborough for a McDonald's
The men from Hull were fined for breaching covid restrictions after they drove to Knaresborough for a McDonalds. North Yorkshire Police issued 102 fixed penalty notices for covid breaches in the past week.
McDonalds at St James Retail Park, Knaresborough.
Police have fined two men from Hull for breaching covid restrictions after they travelled to Knaresborough for a McDonald's.
Officers from North Yorkshire Police said they spotted the men's car at St James Retail Park at 12.45am on Monday.
The men told police they were out for a drive to get a meal from McDonald's.
The restaurant is 66 miles from Hessle in Hull where they drove from.
Both were issued with fixed penalty notices for being outside place of living.
Police handed out 102 fines in North Yorkshire for breaching lockdown restrictions in the past week — 12 of them were in Harrogate.
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It takes the total number of fixed penalty notices issued during the third lockdown in North Yorkshire to 1,662.
Superintendent Mike Walker, who leads the county's covid response, said it was important there was “no let up” in complying with restrictions over the forthcoming four-day Easter weekend.
He said:
“Together with our partner agencies and the people of York and North Yorkshire, it is imperative that we maintain the collective effort to reduce the infection rate as low as possible while the vaccination programme is rolled-out across the population.
“We can all see that better times are on the horizon, that’s why we must keep going and not allow all the hard work and sacrifice to be undone through complacency."
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