North Yorkshire Police handed out another 143 Covid penalties this week – Here’s who to

York and Scarborough were again the hotspots for Covid regulation breaches, new figures reveal.

North Yorkshire Police have issued 143 fixed penalty notices since 26 January.

A total of 45 were handed out in York – 34 to residents.

But Scarborough was top of the league, with 55 notices issued.

Of the 143 issued in the past week :

• 86 were issued to local residents
• 57 to visitors
• 99 to men
• 44 to women
• 69 for being outside place of living
• 10 for outdoor gathering
• 62 for indoor gathering
• 2 for obstruction/contravene.

Since the start of the latest lockdown, the police have issued 471 Covid penalties across the county.

That takes the total to 2,359 since March 2020.