I read several news articles earlier today about the ol' Bill (not sure where that term comes from!) deciding what is essential or not. Several forces including Cambridgeshire have had to publicly apologise and have seemingly clarified they have no powers to decide what is essential or not; I imagine there will be some interesting cases in the not too distant future where folk contest their fines.

I don't have to worry too much though as the good lady wife does the shopping so she'll be slapped with the fine. I just hope they don't start confiscating stuff!