Rule of 6 started on the 14th. The below is from the Governments
Coronavirus pages
Limits on the number of people you can see socially have changed. From Monday 14 September, when meeting friends and family you do not live with (or have formed a support bubble with) you must not meet in a group of more than 6, indoors or outdoors. This is against the law and the police will have the powers to enforce these legal limits, including to issue fines (fixed penalty notices) of £100, doubling for further breaches up to a maximum of £3,200
The
local restrictions being brought in on Tuesday in areas of the North-West are stricter than the national Rule of Six and effectively a total ban on people visiting someone else's home regardless of there being less than 6 albeit with some exceptions.
The following social contact restrictions currently apply to parts of Blackburn with Darwen, and the whole areas of Pendle and Preston. From 22 September, these restrictions will also apply to Halton, Lancashire (excluding Blackpool), Merseyside, and Warrington.
If you live in one of the affected areas, you must not:
- host people you do not live with in your home or garden, unless they’re in your support bubble
- meet people you do not live with in their home or garden, whether inside or outside of the affected area, unless they’re in your support bubble
- Unless you all carry shotguns, then you can tell the police you're hunting grouse