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Robert Harries & Lottie Gibbons

Quad bikers fined for travelling from Liverpool to Wales just hours before restrictions lifted

Bikers who travelled from Liverpool to west Wales just hours before lockdown travel restrictions were eased have been fined.

The group had driven 130 miles from the city to Tywi Forest, north of Lampeter in Ceredigion on Sunday.

They came in two white vans transporting quad bikes before using the area for off-roading.

Members of the group were handed fixed penalty notices by officers from Lampeter police and sent home, reports WalesOnline.

Officers from Dyfed-Powys Police discovered the group and posted on Twitter: "Group stopped in Tywi Forest off-roading, turns out they travelled from Liverpool. Sent home with tickets."

The area - along with other parts of Ceredigion - is and has been a popular spot with off-road bikers.

Wales' five-mile travel rule comes to an end on Monday, July 6, which means the requirement to stay local no longer applies anywhere in Wales and people can travel as far as they want.

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Outdoor attractions can also reopen, with this paving the way for the tourism sector to begin welcoming guests from July 11, if conditions allow.

But the Welsh Government still want people who travel to visit the countryside and beauty spots in Wales to do so safely.

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