as you say on top of primrose hill a magnificent view of the london skyline over there and you can see lots and lots of people enjoying that view sitting on benches walking hand in hand among the cyclists the joggers the exercises the people walking their dogs the people out with their kids kicking a ball this is not i think what lockdown is supposed to look like there's a farmer's market at one end of the park and down this lane here the other into the park there's a very pretty high street where the butcher is open and the wine shop is open in the bookshop and the delis and coffee shops albeit operating a very limited service there is a lot of evidence of social distancing going on here but as i say this is not what lockdown should look like the police have been out and about they have new powers to enforce the lockdown for whatever reason for the time being they're choosing to exercise those powers quite gently just trying to urge people to move away and one constable we spoke to said he was particularly frustrated he said almost none of these people should be here under the

parks and recreation areas beauty spots and so on in the decent spring weather i'm on the brow of primrose hill here and you can see quite a lot of people simply sitting back and enjoying this view of the london skyline there among the joggers and cyclists and dog walkers and people out with their kids kicking a ball there's a farmer's market operating at one end of the park and down there at the bottom end of the park there's a very pretty high street where the wine shop is open and the bookshop and the butchery and coffee shops and delis offering a very limited service and there's a lot of very clear social distancing going on people are being openly irresponsible but still a lot of people about the police have new powers of course to enforce the lockdown for the moment they're not choosing to do so with a heavy hand but one police constable we spoke to earlier said he was very frustrated by all of this he simply said that most of these people shouldn't be here at all it is a worry as britain looks down the road just 2 or 3 weeks away now the epidemiologists tell us towards the peak of the cr

parks and recreation areas beauty spots and so on in the decent spring weather i'm on the brow of primrose hill here and you can see quite a lot of people simply sitting back and enjoying this view of the london skyline there among the joggers and cyclists and dog walkers and people out with their kids kicking a ball there's a farmer's market operating at one end of the park and down there at the bottom end of the park there's a very pretty high street where the wine shop is open and the bookshop and the butchery and coffee shops and delis offering a very limited service and there's a lot of very clear social distancing going on people aren't being openly irresponsible but still a lot of people about the police have new powers of course to enforce the lockdown for the moment they're not choosing to do so with a heavy hand but one police constable we spoke to earlier said he was very frustrated by all of this he simply said that most of these people shouldn't be here at all it is a worry as britain looks down the road just 2 or 3 weeks away now the epidemiologists tell us towards the peak of the

has been a very lovely sunny spring week and the weather of course set to continue well i mean primrose hill at a viewing spot you can take a look behind me there quite a lot of people sitting on benches enjoying the view others exercising others bringing their kids out on their bicycles some people have been lying on the grass it's a lot cloudier than it was an hour or so ago when it was full sunshine and very much nicer than it is now there's a farmer's market operating at the other end of the park down there and down here there's a busy and very pretty high street where the book shop is open the butcher is open the wine shop is opened. shops are open quite a busy scene down there along with the walkers and the joggers as well the police are out they've got new powers to try and enforce these lockdown measures but what we've seen so far is more of a gentle touch of encouraging people to move on rather than waving a big stick and all of this i think will be of some concern to the author of he's come all with experts saying that the peak of the u.k.'s epidemic is maybe 2 to 3 weeks away the

that infection rate is doubling every $3.00 to $4.00 days and joe now looks to me like you're in primrose hill just tell us people there behind you we can see are people paying attention to the lockdown order. well you know we're 5 days now into the last time the government increased the restrictions on movement for people in this lockdown telling them giving them guidelines that meant they would have to stay at home as much as possible only to go to work if absolutely necessary only to leave the house on essential business to go to the supermarket or the pharmacy or to come to places like this to exercise to walk the dog but only to do that once a day and for a short a time as possible now there's a lot of criticism of public behavior across the country for the moment with lots of people coming in the spring sunshine into these sort of parks and beauty spots while a lot of people clearly are paying careful attention to the measures some are not you can see a lot of people there sitting enjoying the view of the london skyline among the dog walkers and cyclists joggers and people with their kid