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T.M.H.N.E.T

Rainbows aren't just for world champions
Location
Northern Ireland
Think I missed that can you point me to the guidelines so I can double check?
Michael Gove said it on the Andrew Marr show, suggesting that depending on levels of fitness, 1hr should be plenty.

This has taken a life of it's own and is getting quoted as legislation, it is not. (The NI version)

"
Restrictions on movement
5.—(1) During the emergency period, no person may leave the place where they are living
without reasonable excuse.
(2) For the purposes of paragraph (1), a reasonable excuse includes the need—
(a) to obtain basic necessities, including food and medical supplies for those in the same
household (including any pets or animals in the household) or for vulnerable persons and
supplies for the essential upkeep, maintenance and functioning of the household, or the
household of a vulnerable person, or to obtain money, including from any business listed
in Part 3 of Schedule 2;
(b) to take exercise either alone or with other members of their household;
(c) to seek medical assistance, including to access any of the services referred to in paragraph
37 or 38 of Schedule 2;
(d) to provide care or assistance, including relevant personal care within the meaning of
paragraph 7(3B) of Schedule 2 to the Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups (Northern Ireland)
Order 2007(a), to a vulnerable person, or to provide emergency assistance;
(e) to donate blood
(f) to travel for the purposes of work or to provide voluntary or charitable services, where it
is not reasonably possible for that person to work, or to provide those services, from the
place where they are living;
(g) to attend a funeral of—
(i) a member of the person’s household,
(ii) a close family member, or
(iii) if no-one within sub-paragraphs (i) or (ii) is attending, a friend;
(h) to fulfil a legal obligation, including attending court or satisfying bail conditions, or to
participate in legal proceedings;
(i) to access critical public services, including—
(i) childcare or educational facilities (where these are still available to a child in relation
to whom that person is the parent, or has parental responsibility for, or care of the
child);
(ii) social care services;
(iii) services provided by the Department for Communities;
(iv) services provided to victims (such as victims of crime);
(j) in relation to children who do not live in the same household as their parents, or one of
their parents, to continue existing arrangements for access to, and contact between,
parents and children, and for the purposes of this paragraph, “parent” includes a person
who is not a parent of the child, but who has parental responsibility for, or who has care
of the child;
(k) in the case of a minister of religion or worship leader, to go to their place of worship;
(l) to move house where reasonably necessary;"
 
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Think I missed that can you point me to the guidelines so I can double check?
Don't bother it's not there
 

DaveReading

Don't suffer fools gladly (must try harder!)
Location
Reading, obvs
Daily Mirro had a go but got reamed a new one for cleverly using a zoom lens and image cropping to make riders that were spread well apart look like a group.

They were also all wearing winter type kit so it wasn't taken recently.

No, it's both genuine and recent.

Visit www.londonnewspictures.co.uk and search for LNP_COVID19_Lockdown_UK_BCA_586.JPG.

The agency's caption is "04/04/2020. London, UK. Cyclists exercising in close proximity around Regents Park in London, during a pandemic outbreak of the Coronavirus COVID-19 disease. "
 

T.M.H.N.E.T

Rainbows aren't just for world champions
Location
Northern Ireland
No, it's both genuine and recent.

Visit www.londonnewspictures.co.uk and search for LNP_COVID19_Lockdown_UK_BCA_586.JPG.

The agency's caption is "04/04/2020. London, UK. Cyclists exercising in close proximity around Regents Park in London, during a pandemic outbreak of the Coronavirus COVID-19 disease. "
It's not genuine. It's a lens trick, they're well apart
 
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hoopdriver

Guru
Location
East Sussex
But unlike the Mail's poorer attempt, Richmond Park has few road markings that undermine the trickery.

Can the misdescription be reported anywhere for action as sowing division during a national crisis?
Independent Press Standards Organisation handles those kinds of complaints.
 

lane

Veteran
Don't bother it's not there

I know it's not in the legislation. But if the Government clearly said we only want you to go out for one hour I would stick to it. However they haven't. Gove's comments were not clear advice as far as I am concerned. Why did @Slick say it is one hour?
 
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I know it's not in the legislation. But if the Government clearly said we only want you to go out for one hour I would stick to it. However they haven't. Gove's comments were not clear advice as far as I am concerned. Why did @Slick say it is one hour?
I can't answer for @Slick but I know I was under the impression it had been said, I thought I had actually heard Boris say it, but on watching the 20:30 announcement again it's not there, so as far as I am concerned I have no idea how it entered my physi
 

T.M.H.N.E.T

Rainbows aren't just for world champions
Location
Northern Ireland
I know it's not in the legislation. But if the Government clearly said we only want you to go out for one hour I would stick to it. However they haven't. Gove's comments were not clear advice as far as I am concerned. Why did @Slick say it is one hour?
I wouldn't necessesarily disagree with Gove though, we've been told to stay at home with one of many caveats of going out for exercise. I've been out on MTB for relatively short circa 40min rides on my own, but I could if I wished disappear off and ride around Lough Neagh (about 130miles and upwards of 6hrs)

I don't feel that would be in the spirit of things though, not illegal by any means but perhaps pushing "our" luck a tad.
 

lane

Veteran
I wouldn't necessesarily disagree with Gove though, we've been told to stay at home with one of many caveats of going out for exercise. I've been out on MTB for relatively short circa 40min rides on my own, but I could if I wished disappear off and ride around Lough Neagh (about 130miles and upwards of 6hrs)

I don't feel that would be in the spirit of things though, not illegal by any means but perhaps pushing "our" luck a tad.
I don't disagree at all. But there is a difference between not in the spirit (I won't be doing a 6 hour ride) and saying the guidance says an hour is excessive.
 
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