'What about Coronation Street and Batman?': Gym open during lockdown to be shut after battle with council reaches court - despite owner's 'filming' exemption claim

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click on this link, enter your email address, and select 'MyWigan News'.Outlining Wigan council's case against the gym, barrister Ben Williams said Mr Harper was 'seeking to exploit loopholes' in the law."The spirit of the regulations is clear, Mr Harper is right to say there are exemptions, they're there for a purpose," he said."He's not making a film, he's running a gym and filming it incidentally."Mr Harper replied: "I don't care about the spirit of the law."I'm following legislation to the tee.

I have done nothing but follow the law."Mr Williams asked Mr Harper why he had decided to do so much filming in the gym during lockdown.The gym owner said it was a way of 'diversifying' his business."You are saying that on each and every occasion.