NO TIERS... LET’S MEET PAL FRESCO

FRIENDS Sheila McWhirter and Tim Porteous found a novel way of meeting – by sharing a cuppa on either side of a council border.

Sheila, 57, from Portobello, Edinburgh, and Tim, 58, from Prestonpans, East Lothian, are in tier three areas barred from mixing. But Tim said: ‘It was like we were in our own bubble, a friendship bubble.’