‘Time to party’: roving revellers cross Welsh border to escape Covid rules

Fun-seekers criticise Welsh restrictions on New Year's Eve celebrations but say they'll be careful

They arrived at Bristol Temple Meads train station clutching cans of booze, a change of clothes and this year's most essential New Year's Eve accessory - a negative lateral flow test.

The closure of nightclubs and restrictions in bars and pubs in Wales was not going to stop a determined band of Welsh fun-seekers hopping across the border for a big night out on the English side of the Severn.