Quote Originally Posted by Marco View Post
This is worrying for me, because if I cycle more than 7 miles from my house in a North Easterly direction I end up in Derbyshire and at this time of year I might be carrying food. If they're fining people £200 to drive 5 miles, will they start fining people with food who cycle 7 miles?

At the bottom of the story it said Derbyshire Police has also been giving fixed penalty notices to people who visit Calke Abbey and Elvaston Castle. I've been to all three locations (not within the last 12 months) and whilst they're not staggeringly beautiful, they're the sort of places that less active people would drive to take their dog(s) for a walk. A lot of people will view this as a money-making policy rather than a health measure.

As for me, it looks like I'm trapped on the South side of the River Mease - at least to No Man's Heath, where I can enter friendly Warwickshire and then possibly North into friendly Leicestershire
Not Derbyshire related but cycling related, some cycling friends of mine were worried about quite how far they might be allowed to cycle as ‘daily exercise’. I think they’ve taken advice from the bicycling association (or an association with a similar name?) who are saying that cycling local means that you need to be able to walk home from anywhere on your route. Which sort of makes sense to me.

As for Derbyshire police, what plonkers