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Coronavirus: Durham police lockdown travel fines revealed
May 28, 2020
Durham police issued fines to two people - from different households - who travelled together from London to County Durham during lockdown.
The force is currently considering whether to take action against the prime minister's chief aide Dominic Cummings over a similar journey.
Mr Cummings made the 246 mile trip from London to Durham city with his wife and four-year-old son.
The two individuals fined by the force travelled to nearby Peterlee.
Mr Cummings has defended his decision to make the journey to Durham , insisting it was legal and within the guidelines.
"The rules made clear that if you are dealing with small children that can be exceptional circumstances," he said at a press conference on Monday.
"And I think that the situation that I was in was exceptional circumstances, and the way that I dealt with it was the least risk to everybody concerned if my wife and I had both been unable to look after our four-year-old."
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He has been backed by Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who has said it is time to "move on" from the row and focus on the public's "needs, rather than on a political ding-dong about what one adviser may or may not have done".
The lockdown fines were uncovered in Freedom of Information requests made to police forces around the country before news of Mr Cummings' journey emerged.
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