An angry nurse shouted at a group of 'absolute idiots' who she caught lounging around in a park during the coronavirus lockdown.

The NHS worker forced the group of six young men to go home after she spotted them sipping beer on a patch of grass in Basingstoke, Hampshire.

Footage of the confrontation, which the nurse filmed on her phone, was posted on a Facebook group earlier on Friday before first being reported by the Basingstoke Gazette.

An angry nurse shouted at a group of 'absolute idiots' who she caught lounging around in a park during the coronavirus lockdown. The NHS worker forced the group of six young men to go home after she spotted them sipping beer on a patch of grass in Basingstoke, Hampshire

The video begins with the mother-of-two telling the men: 'My husband is not getting paid. I have to go in and do overtime all the time. I have got two kids in there.'

One of the teenagers then angrily replies, 'well don't stand near us then innit'.

But the nurse continues berating them, adding: 'I have to go to work every day fearing I am going to be [a risk] to my family because of people like you!

'You are absolute idiots.'

One of the teenager then demands that she stop filming the group, but the nurse is defiant.

Footage of the confrontation, which the nurse filmed on her phone, was posted on a Facebook group earlier on Friday. The video begins with the mother-of-two telling the men: 'My husband is not getting paid. I have to go in and do overtime all the time. I have got two kids in there'

'No! If you're gonna be stupid then I'll show the world how stupid you are,' she says.

'Absolute idiots, why you think you're better than everyone else, I've got no idea!'

The group, most of whom are on bikes, then begin to leave the patch of grass.

It prompts the nurse to add: 'That's it, jog on!'

She then tells them to 'Go all back to your house in [nearby] Kempshot, I'm sure its a mansion fitting all you turds in it!'

Her jibe prompts one of the teenagers to say, 'Oh f*** off!'

The nurse then continues filming as she waits for the final teenager to leave.

She tells him, 'I'll quite happily stay here until the police get here!'

The group were among hundreds of lockdown rebels, many of whom were ordered to go home by police after they ignored social distancing rules to lie in 77F sunshine.

As many broke the rules at their local parks and beaches, others flocked to rural areas and were reprimanded by locals.

The nurse told the group: 'If you're gonna be stupid then I'll show the world how stupid you are. Absolute idiots, why you think you're better than everyone else, I've got no idea!'. The nurse then continued filming as she waits for the final teenager to leave

In north Wales one man was seen removing road blocks in order to get to a beach so he could use his kayak.

When questioned by one resident, he simply said that the rules 'only applied to large towns and cities', claiming that he 'knew what he was talking about'.

It comes as Downing Street has been forced to warn police officers against 'heavy-handed' lockdown tactics after officers admitted to prowling through supermarket aisles in a bid to catch shoppers buying 'non-essential' items.

Police forces across the country have been accused of being over-zealous in their Easter weekend crackdown as they threatened to check through people's shopping, causing #policestateUK to trend on Twitter.

The warning saw Downing Street warn police today that 'if a shop is open then it will sell whatever it has in stock', while Home Secretary Priti Patel called on officers not to be 'heavy-handed' during the coronavirus lockdown.

This is while Health Secretary Matt Hancock also urged people to stay at home over the Easter Weekend, after many people indulged in sunbathing and playing sports today on beaches and parks up and down the country.