A group of 10 ramblers from London who travelled 245 miles to go walking in North Wales have been sent home and reported by police for breaking coronavirus lockdown rules.
The group, travelling in two separate vehicles, had travelled the five-hour journey from the capital earlier on Sunday. But they were stopped by police near their destination on the A5 in Bethesda.
They told police officers they were intending to go walking in Snowdonia, the mountainous National Park in North Wales, but instead they were escorted back to roads leading home.
Officers from North Wales Police, who tweeted brief details of the incident, reported them for breaching lockdown laws. They were then ordered to go home immediately, police escorting their cars to