Tourists from as far away as London have been turned away from the Brecon Beacons in Wales for breaking coronavirus lockdown rules.
Police set up roadblocks as visitors who'd driven up to 200 miles to the beauty spot despite Wales' national shutdown and Tier 4 rules in England triggered outrage and were slammed as "irresponsible" and "selfish".
Police said on Tuesday they had handed out fines to a minibus of people from mixed households who drove about 80 miles from Cheltenham in Gloucestershire, and a man who travelled from Hertfordshire to walk up Pen y Fan.
Visitors had also travelled from Swansea, Cardiff and Newport.
Despite a stay-at-home order and a ban on non-essential travel, a large number of visitors walked along trails at snow-covered Pen y Fan and hundreds of cars were packed below the highest mountain in southern Britain on Monday and again on Tuesday.
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It came as hospitals were under increasing pressure and the UK set a new record for the daily number of confirmed cases - 53,135 - and reported 414 more deaths amid fears that 2021 could be worse than 2020.
In the Brecon Beacons, police set up roadblocks and cars lined the A470 to gain access to the area on Tuesday. The national park has been busy throughout the festive season.
A spokesperson for Dyfed-Powys Police said: "We are carrying out high-visibility patrols at Storey Arms and engaging with people to remind them of their responsibilities to adhere to Welsh Government lockdown restrictions.
"There were a couple of hundred vehicles in the area today."
Inspector Andrew Williams, from the force's specialist operations (RPU) team, said: “Officers have spoken to one man who had driven from Hertfordshire to walk up Pen y Fan, while a minibus of people from mixed households had travelled from Cheltenham.
“Fixed penalty notices have and will be issued to those blatant breaches where engagement fails, but the vast majority of people are listening to advice and when they are turning up and seeing RPU vehicles at the site, they are turning around and going home, which is the objective of our high visibility patrols.”
The Carmarthenshire Roads Policing Unit tweeted: "We are currently in Brecon conducting high visibility patrols. A large number of people are visiting the area to walk up Penyfan.
"This is not essential travel. Officers are engaging and educating and where necessary will enforce restrictions."
Powys County Council's deputy leader, Aled Davies, said he was "disappointed" that people were travelling long distances to exercise in the Brecon Beacons.
He told BBC Radio Wales: "Just stay at home and take exercise locally, it's so important."
Intensive care consultant Dr David Hepburn told the BBC that the scenes were "very disappointing".
Dr Hepburn, who works at Royal Gwent Hospital in Newport, added: "All the hospitals across the health board are now very, very full.
"We've still got quite a lot of time to go before this pandemic is under control, so really anything could happen over the next month or so."
Joseph Carter, head of devolved nations for Asthma UK and the British Lung Foundation, was among those who hit out at visitors who broke lockdown rules.
He tweeted: "This is completely irresponsible, people coming not just from other parts of Wales, but from England as well, at a time when we are supposed to be staying local and avoiding travel. #StayHomeSaveLives."
Angry Twitter users urged police to get tough on those ignoring rules aimed at curbing the spread of Covid-19.
One person wrote: "Just fine them! Please zero tolerance! We have gone past the education stage!"
Another person tweeted: "Selfish b******s everywhere! 3rd wave and lockdown incoming thanks to these idiots."
A third added: "Rather than fining the #Covidiots travelling to the Brecon beacons or #Snowdonia, why don't the police take their keys and give them a tent? When @WelshGovernment ease the restrictions, they can go home!!!"
Garry, a dog walker from the local area, defended the scenes as he told the BBC: "If you go into a shop there's more people in the shop than there is on the mountain today and you're closer in the shop than what you are here today, so it's not too bad I don't think."
Another walker added: "We're keeping distance between everyone else so I think we're ok."
South Wales Police said its officers attended Rhyslyn Car Park after receiving complaints about lockdown breaches.
"Warning notices have been left on vehicles advising drivers to stay at home and exercise locally," the force tweeted.
It wrote earlier: "We have received numerous reports of crowds of people at beaches and other beauty spots across #SouthWales.
"Please remember that @WelshGovernment restrictions state that exercise should start and finish at your home – you shouldn’t be driving to these places."
Wales is on alert level 4, meaning people must stay at home and only travel if they have a reasonable excuse, such as work or caring responsibilities. Exercise must start and end at home.
Swathes of England, including London and Hertfordshire, are in Tier 4, meaning people there must not leave their homes unless they have a reasonable excuse.
According to Government guidance, they must not leave their Tier 4 area except for legally permitted reasons such as work, education and medical appointments.
