Climbing a mountain in the dark in trainers and a road trip to visit all 92 football league grounds are just two of the excuses people have given to police after being recently caught flouting lockdown rules.
Though the rules on the government website state “stay local means stay in the village, town, or part of the city where you live”, one minister has conceded the term is “open to interpretation, but people broadly know what local means”.
Two women who were fined £200 after travelling to a reservoir for a walk around five miles from their homes have had their penalties cancelled.
Here is a look at some of the reasons people have given for leaving their homes and breaching current COVID-19 regulations.