{"id":14857,"date":"2020-04-08T18:41:30","date_gmt":"2020-04-08T17:41:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/verwoodtoday.co.uk\/?p=14857"},"modified":"2020-04-08T18:41:30","modified_gmt":"2020-04-08T17:41:30","slug":"authorities-urge-dorset-residents-to-stay-at-home-this-easter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/martin.mx\/verwood\/2020\/04\/authorities-urge-dorset-residents-to-stay-at-home-this-easter\/","title":{"rendered":"Authorities urge Dorset residents to stay at home this Easter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chief Constable James Vaughan, of Dorset Police is urging everyone to follow the rules and make a difference to combat COVID-19 this Easter Weekend.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>In addition, the leader of Dorset Council, Cllr Spencer Flower, is urging all residents to stay at home over the long weekend, with any exercise taken directly from their front doors.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Dorset Police Easter update regarding COVID-19 (coronavirus) 8 April 2020\" width=\"1170\" height=\"658\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VaXPnzGJmcs?wmode=transparent&amp;rel=0&amp;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Chief Constable James Vaughan: \u201cI fully appreciate the impact the Government restrictions are having on us all. However, we must not lose sight of why they are in place \u2013 to reduce the spread of the disease, protect the NHS and save lives.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere has been much discussion around what the legislation does and doesn\u2019t specifically prohibit. The legal aspects of the legislation are based upon whether a person\u2019s actions are reasonable or not.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe key to making this work for everyone in Dorset is for everyone to be reasonable. If you can exercise with a run or a walk near your home, it is reasonable for you to do so. Our interpretation is that it is not reasonable, for the majority, to drive to a specific place such as a beach or beauty spot. It is also not within the spirit of what we are trying to achieve, regardless of whether that is \u201clawful\u201d or not. Please stay at home.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would like to reiterate my thanks to the public for working with us and supporting our efforts to enforce the new Government restrictions. Our Dorset communities have been fantastic at following these rules and I am certain our combined effort in this county will make a difference to combatting this terrible disease.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Cllr Spencer Flower adds: \u201cWe know how fortunate we are to live in a beautiful part of the country but our enjoyment of that, for now, will have to wait. Our beaches, parks, beauty spots and countryside will all still be there for us to enjoy when this crisis is over.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There will be more summers, more bank holidays, and more sunny days in the future, but now is not the time for venturing out, driving to the places we know and love.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chief Constable James Vaughan, of Dorset Police is urging everyone to follow the rules and make a difference to combat COVID-19 this Easter Weekend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14858,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[89],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dorset"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/martin.mx\/verwood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14857"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/martin.mx\/verwood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/martin.mx\/verwood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/martin.mx\/verwood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/martin.mx\/verwood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14857"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/martin.mx\/verwood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14857\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14859,"href":"https:\/\/martin.mx\/verwood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14857\/revisions\/14859"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/martin.mx\/verwood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/martin.mx\/verwood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/martin.mx\/verwood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/martin.mx\/verwood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}