(17 Feb 2021, 1:04 pm)Rapidsnap wrote How does someone define what local means, everyone has different ideas on the meaning. I define local as somewhere within a 30 minute drive of my house, which is an area bordered roughly by Ashington / Morpeth, Hexham (on a good day), Dalton Park / CLS.

Exactly, but others might say local is somewhere you can easily travel on foot.

And you can't just pick an arbitrary distance like 5 or 10 miles, because what about the people that live out in the sticks? You'd then have to make an exception for them, but then that's discriminating against people who live in a large town.

Like I say, it all comes down to using your common sense, and being consistent.

Hypothetically, if I drove all the way to Newcastle to go to Tesco instead of going to the one in Bishop, but I only ever do my shopping there once a week, am I not less of a problem than someone who goes to the shops locally every night to get all the reduced items?