AS the spread of the coronavirus continues, death numbers rise and a strict lockdown over Easter keeps us at home, Cheltenham again seems to be the subject of unmerited accusations for causing the spread of the virus.

A barely researched article in The Times in Britain last week with the title “Cheltenham ‘spread virus across the country’ – has been well quoted, even though no one in the piece actually said those words and the extent of the research was “one person wrote on Twitter” and “someone else replied…”