Police have issued a warning after attending reports of coronavirus breaches in Gloucestershire at the weekend.

Officers were called to a number of reports in Stroud of residents breaching advice about social distancing.

Gloucestershire Constabulary said on Twitter last night (September 27): "We were called to a number of different locations in Stroud tonight for reports of people breaching covid advice.

"These incidents have been resolved without the need to issue any fines but we would like to remind everyone that the 'rule of six' applies both indoors and outdoors."

They added: "To clarify. officers attended each incident and found those involved to only be going against 'advice' regarding social distancing.

"The rule of 6 does come under 'law' as per the latest government update, but this was not broken in any of the incidents referenced by this post."

It comes after new restrictions came into place over the weekend that only groups of up to six people could meet in gardens in the UK.

Those found in breach of the new rules could face fines of up to £10,000.

Yesterday it was reported that there have been 13 new cases of coronavirus in Gloucestershire in the past 24 hours.

This included a rise of two in Stroud, bringing the total to 340 cases.

A further 5,693 people have tested positive for the virus across the country since Saturday, a slight decrease on the 6,042 cases recorded the previous day and the 6,874 seen on Friday.

There have now been 434,969 confirmed coronavirus cases in the UK since the pandemic began in March.

A total of 17 deaths have been recorded across the country since yesterday, taking the number of people who have died within 28 days of testing positive for the virus to 41,988.