Police shut down 70-person midnight wedding party at pub defying coronavirus curfew

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A pub in Birmingham has received a £1,000 fine after police discovered 70 people at a lock-in after the 10pm curfew. Officers on dedicated coronavirus patrols walked in to The Greyhound in Erdington at midnight to find a wedding party with drinks still being served, a DJ set up and a gazebo in the garden.

The police arrived two hours after the pub should have closed up in line with the government's 10pm curfew to help stop the spread of coronavirus.

A statement from the West Midlands Police said: "We'd had a complaint about noise and the size of the gathering from a member of the public, and we found between 60 and 70 people were gathered, with no social distancing being observed. "We dispersed the gathered guests and then met with the