CORONAVIRUS: Benches taped off in Boston as police move to reassure public in town

Town centre beat manager PC Newell came up with the idea and it was being implemented today after Boston Borough Council agreed to it.

Officers are now patrolling the streets as part of enforcing the strict movement measures brough in by PM Boris Johnson on Monday night.

But they have pledged to keep the town's public up to date with their work with hourly tweets from the Boston Police UK twitter account.

Their first tweet this morning said: "We understand it is stressful and worrying being indoors, fearing what may be happening outside. We'll be tweeting hourly from the streets today."