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Hundreds of Britons filled a main London street and lined up in a department store during the coronavirus blockade.
Crowds stopped to chat at Broadway Market, East London, while shoppers pulled out trollies filled with items from The Range in Leicester this weekend.
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Three men were seen strolling with pints in their hands on popular Hackney Street, lined with bars, cafes, and boutiques.
The British can still buy a beer or a coffee, despite the closure, as companies can only operate on the go.
In Leicester, people came out of the popular department stores with patio furniture and household items as they took advantage of The Range as being considered an “essential” store.
Police patrolled the streets of central London as visitors walked through Trafalgar Square and others jumped on bikes to exercise this afternoon.
The bustling scenes in London and Leicester come as Britain’s coronavirus death toll reached 28,446 with 315 more people killed in the UK in the past 24 hours.
The grim jump in deaths means that the country remains one of the hardest hit by the deadly insect in the world.
DOUBLE PROBLEM
In an effort to control the rising death toll, government ministers are working on plans to almost double the blocking fines to £ 100 for the first offense and then to £ 3,200 for repeat offenders.
Recent figures show that police officers delivered 400 notices of fixed penalties for breaking the rules in four weeks to April 27 in England, Wales.
One person was even fined six times.
Under the new meaningless scheme, a fine will start at £ 100 and then double for a repeat offense.
A third offense would see a fine of £ 400, a fourth £ 800, then £ 1,600 and finally a sixth offense would cost £ 3,200.
This would mean that a consistent rule flouter would end up paying a bill of £ 6,300.
Failure to pay the fine could result in a court date and prison time.
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A Whitehall source said: “In the next phase of our fight against the coronavirus, some of the social distancing measures will be relaxed, others will be tightened.
“Hand-in-hand with the new rules, the police powers will be stricter for the police to crack down on the small minority who break the rules and prevent them from putting everyone else at greater risk.”
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