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Police Raid 'Illegal' Off-Road Bikers' Gathering Near Lewes

Record of offence (Photo: © Sussex Police)

Seven people who'd illegally gathered on hills around a Sussex chalk-pit on Sunday (February 7), to use off-road bikes, have been issued police penalties for breaking Covid restrictions.

Lewes: Chalkpit cycle tracks

Officers said the fines were handed out at Lewes's chalk-pits, in East Sussex, to adults who'd travelled from West Sussex.

Police called the gathering, at the unauthorised biker's playground, "non-essential" — and, now, "expensive".

Current laws generally permit gatherings in most public spaces outside, for exercise, of a maximum of two people.

Guidelines state that only local travel, for the same purpose, is acceptable.

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