CONWY County Borough Council (CCBC) has provided an update on its services today amid the coronavirus outbreak.

Officials say that, in order to help protect as many people in the community as possible, anyone with an urgent query should contact them by phone or online.

Further guidelines are as follows:

Sunday Trading - To support the supermarkets efforts to help key workers and the vulnerable shop for essential food safely, the Council has taken steps to relax enforcement on Sunday trading rules.

Allotments - Visiting your allotment counts as your daily exercise, as set out by the government on March 23.

Please follow these guidelines for your safety and to protect other users:

• Keep your distance from other tenants to help limit the spread of the virus. Follow current government rules about social distancing. You should be a minimum of 2 metres/6 feet apart.

• Do not share tools or any other equipment with any other allotment tenants.

• Observe strict hygiene after touching site gates, locks or other communal items. Disinfect your hands after each use.

• Allotments are for allotment tenants only. No groups are allowed on site and only people who live in your household can enter the site while you are there.

• Please stay on your plot at all times and do not enter another plot under any circumstances.

Harbours

Slipways and jetties on CCBC-owned promenades, foreshores and the harbour are closed. They are also not taking any new bookings for leisure craft or visitor moorings, except for emergency refuge.

The harbour staff continue to support the commercial fishing industry, maintain the estuary marker buoys and infrastructure and respond to any emergency within the harbour limits.

Please do not visit the harbour office unless it is for an essential service, and observe social distancing rules.

Open Spaces - You are entitled to leave home to exercise once daily. You can walk, run or cycle from your home address. You should not drive to a place away from home to do this. Please protect our staff, emergency services and each other by not making unnecessary journeys.

Payments - CCBC are unable to accept payments by cheque at present, and any cheques received will not be processed or returned during this on-going situation.

Customers can continue to make their payments using our other payment methods available. More Information at: www.conwy.gov.uk/payments

A spokesperson for CCBC said: "We are working closely with Public Health Wales, Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board and the emergency services to ensure that appropriate and proportionate arrangements are in place to respond to this rapidly developing situation.

"We will continue to follow the guidance we receive from UK Government, Welsh Government and Public Health Wales."