While most people spent Easter on lockdown, some Brits continued to ignore restrictions - or push them to the limit - determined to enjoy the weekend sunshine.
Temperatures rocketed to 24C in some parts on Saturday and Sunday, as the government urged people to stay indoors over the bank holiday weekend.
However, this didn't stop some flocking to parks and beaches, with pictures showing police moving sunbathers on.
And even those who were carrying out their permitted exercise struggled to maintain proper social distancing on pathways and in parks.
In Brighton, officers were seen patrolling the beach, with a group of men being moved away on Sunday afternoon.
A scuba diver was even caught fishing under Brighton Pier on Saturday night.
Elsewhere, Royal Parks in London were used by sunseekers, including Battersea Park, where a sunbather took advantage of the weather by relaxing on the grass.
Police were seen breaking up groups of people at Primrose Hill on Saturday, with officers on horses seen talking to a man in Victoria Park.
Officers blew the whistle on ridiculous excuses given for breaking coronavirus lockdown rules which have included shopping for a trampoline and Pokemon hunting.
One family said they were playing Pokemon Go when quizzed by officers at a West Midlands park in Coventry.
Other excuses revealed by the force include one person quizzed as they searched through a hedgerow, who said they were 'looking for wild rocket' and another who said they were going to their allotment to 'get a cauliflower'.
Drivers in Wales also gave officers daft excuses for their supposed essential journeys such as buying gravy granules and a trampoline.
Queues were spotted on Brighton seafront outside an ice cream kiosk in the popular seaside resort as UK temperatures hit 22C on Good Friday.
Elsewhere in the country runners, walkers and cyclists were seen filling crowded pathways in Windsor Great Park, with little apparent regard for social distancing guidance.
Meanwhile a family who drove from London to Devon to go fishing during lockdown were kicked out of the county and slapped with fines.
The flouting family were located in Torquay in the early hours of Sunday morning after travelling from the capital overnight.
Lockdown rebels were even chased away by police after throwing a house party.
Almost two dozen officers and four paramedics were called to the mass gathering where selfish partygoers were chased away and asked to return home.
A sea of police cars and an ambulance filled the residential street after the party kicked off at around 9pm on Saturday in Stockton, Durham.
Onlookers were ordered to return to their homes as the party was broken up, Teesside Live reports.
It comes as the UK's official coronavirus death toll soared above 10,000 after 657 more deaths were reported in England, as well as 24 in Scotland, 18 in Wales and 11 in Northern Ireland.
Temperatures are set to plunge from 26C on Good Friday, officially the hottest day of the year so far, to an average of 13C on Easter Monday.
And some parts of the UK will struggle to reach double figures, forecasters predict.
Met Office meteorologist Emma Salter said: "Tomorrow is going to be a bit of a shock to the system for some places, it's going to be dry but will feel really cold for England and Wales, with a drop in temperature.
"There will be plenty of sunshine but it will be breezy.
"A lot of places in England and Wales will struggle to get to double figures."
London will reach 13C and it is expected to be slightly warmer (around 15C) in Devon and Cornwall.
