CORONAVIRUS lockdown-breakers have been up before the magistrates after flouting lockdown restrictions to meet up with others.

James Radford, 20, entered a guilty plea to magistrates in Worcester.

The court heard had taken part in an indoor gathering of more than two people without reasonable excuse at Canon Pyon in Herefordshire, contrary to coronavirus restrictions, on April 9.

Radford, of Heydour, Grantham, Lincolnshire, was fined £400 and ordered to pay costs of £95 and a £34 victim surcharge.

Peter Michael Robert Ball, 29, was proven guilty by magistrates in Worcester.

The court heard Ball had taken part in a gathering of two or more people at a home in Hereford's Meadow Court while the county was subject to tier four lockdown restrictions on March 21.

Ball, of Belmont Road, Hereford, was fined £220 and ordered to pay costs of £95 and a £34 victim surcharge.