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A family has spent lockdown raising spirits by dressing up as popular children’s TV characters and going on regular walks to wave at youngsters stuck indoors.

Anna Smith and her relatives have covered more than 15 miles of streets in Grantham, Lincolnshire over the past eight weeks disguised as Peppa Pig, Skye from Paw Patrol and a ninja turtle, as well as making socially-distanced visits to schools and nurseries.

The disability consultant said: “Every week since the lockdown started we have visited different areas waving at children and adults to spread some joy.

"No payment is ever taken and it is all from a distance.

"I often work with children in my usual job and I have a passion for making them smile.”

A great-grandmother, who was born in 1912, has had a party with friends and family while adhering to social-distancing guidelines.

Winifred Hall, from Gravesend, Kent, marked her 108th birthday during lockdown with loved-ones singing happy birthday to her from outside her window.

She said the secret to a long life was never trying to hurt anybody and keeping the peace.

"Everyone I know and love has been able to come," Winifred said.

Lockdown restrictions have eased slightly in England, but many people are still on furlough and unable to go to work.

Radio 4's Money Box spoke to those who have been thinking differently during lockdown to launch new business ventures.

Niamh has turned her embroidery sideline into a business, while Olly has set up a puzzle-making service after losing his photography work.

Listen to tips on how to start a business on Money Box.

Hundreds of people lined the streets and clapped in honour of a doctor who died with coronavirus.

Dr Karamat Mirza, 84, worked at Old Road Medical Practice in Clacton-on-Sea, Essex, until two weeks ago when he contracted Covid-19.

Dr Mirza, who had run the surgery for 40 years, died in hospital on Sunday.

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Singer James Blunt is doing his bit to lift the spirits of those suffering from coronavirus, by hosting a show on hospital radio.

It is described as a "cheerful show" with "an array of feel good tunes and loads of gratitude to those working in the frontlines of the pandemic".

Titled The Greatest Hour, it will be broadcast by the Hospital Broadcast Association, which serves 170 stations.

A spokesperson for the Hospital Broadcast Association said: "We are thrilled James wishes to thank NHS staff in this way.

"The show will make a fantastic addition to hospital radio schedules during this difficult time."

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An eight-year-old boy has spent every day of lockdown leaving jokes at the end of his driveway to give strangers a giggle.

Sonny Mason, from Kings Heath, Birmingham, said he thought his comical pictures would "cheer people up".

He said: "I just thought because we're in such a hard time now, if I wrote a joke out, it would cheer people up and my mum told me to do it as well - to practise my handwriting."

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And some of those to have had their funny bones tickled have written back to him as a result.

"[A man] said that he loved the jokes and he really wanted me to keep it up," Sonny said.

The government is "opening the door" for the return of professional football in England in June, the culture secretary has said after a meeting with the Football Association, Premier League and English Football League.

Oliver Dowden said the meeting was "positive" and "progressed plans for the resumption" of the game.

Read more on this developing story here.

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A four-year-old girl has raised thousands for the NHS by making tambourines for people to use when they clap for carers.

Sia Kohli, from Leeds, has handed out more than 200 rainbow-themed instruments to people in her community.

Her father Raj Kohli said: "It's often easy in a situation like this to look and see the negative.

"But one thing that we've been continually inspired by from Sia is her ability just to overcome challenges and just take the positive from the situation."

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Transport for London (TfL) will be forced to reduce services unless it receives a government grant by the end of the day, Sadiq Khan has claimed.

Without financial support, the transport body must cut its Tube and bus networks, the mayor of London said.

Mr Khan said TfL had been negotiating with the Government for about six weeks.

The Prime Minister's official spokesman said negotiations were at an "advanced stage".

TfL has previously said it expects to lose £4bn this year due to the impact of coronavirus.

A man who claimed he had coronavirus and coughed in a police officer's face has been jailed for six months.

Body-camera footage showed 23-year-old Mark Wright being arrested on Tuesday in Newcastle city centre.

Two officers were on patrol in Blackett Street when they spotted Wright being abusive to a woman.

They asked him to calm down and leave the area, and when one of the PCs asked him if he had coronavirus, Wright replied "yes" and coughed in his face.

Dominic Casciani
Home Affairs Correspondent

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Boris Johnson has changed the lockdown rules in England, allowing people to spend more time outdoors.

The devolved administrations in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland set their own separate rules for managing the threat of coronavirus - but in each part of the UK, the police must enforce them.

What powers do police have?

Jennifer Meierhans
BBC News

Nine-year-old Oliver from Worcester has been writing his own poems to keep people entertained during lockdown and is currently on poem number 23

His dad Jez Smith said: "It was all Ollie's idea. He would pick the topic and compose. He even selected the music. He wrote one every day during the Easter holidays.

"He's worried as his mum is a key worker so he was really writing from the heart."

Here's Ollie performing a pirate themed poem.

Sam Francis
BBC News, London

Researchers at one of London's top universities have been awarded funding to create experimental adaptors allowing snorkels to be used by frontline healthcare workers.

Scientists and Engineers at Imperial College London are hoping to create connectors using 3D printers that would allow snorkels, or similar facemasks, to be used during higher risk procedures and highly infectious environments, such as A&Es.

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Snorkels "are ideal as they provide a breathing filter as well as full eye protection", A spokesman for Imperial College said.

They are also fully cleanable and reusable, and therefore can be used where there are shortages of normal masks.

If the designs are successful the team will make their findings freely available for the international community to replicate the printing process.

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One in 400 people in England has coronavirus, a survey of nearly 11,000 people in households suggests.

They were asked to carry out swab tests over two weeks up to 10 May.

This means about 148,000 people in England could currently be infected - 0.27% of the population.

Those tested did not include hospital patients or people living in care home where rates of Covid-19 are likely to be much higher, figures from the Office for National Statistics show, external.

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The relaxation of lockdown measures could lead to further flouting of social distancing rules, a nurse has warned.

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Louise Wigginton, a specialist respiratory nurse working in an intensive care Covid-19 Red Zone in central London, said she was left feeling upset and unappreciated after seeing groups of people drinking and socialising in a park directly outside the hospital's intensive care unit.

"They were sunbathing, drinking and meeting in large groups," the 29-year-old said.

"My colleagues and I said to one another, 'can they not see us up here?'.

"This was the realisation that people are already not listening to the rules and now that lockdown is softened, it will only get worse."

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Honda has said it will restart production at its UK car plant next month.

The company told employees and suppliers that work would resume in Swindon in the first week of June after stopping production due to the lockdown.

Honda said it would implement "measures to mitigate risks and provide a Covid-secure site".

The plant is due to close for good in July 2021 with the loss of 3,500 jobs.

The site closure decision was made due to global changes in the car industry and the need to launch electric vehicles.

Amy Gladwell
BBC News Online

A brood of rainbow-coloured hens have been "brightening everyone's day" on a Cornish coastal walk during the coronavirus restrictions.

The hens live on a farm at Perranporth and have had their tail feathers coloured with livestock spray, as a sign of solidarity to key workers during the Covid-19 pandemic.

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Allowing family gatherings is an "important public health issue", England's deputy chief medical officer has said - but it is "complicated" to make the rules fair.

Dr Jenny Harries said such a move could provide a "mental health boost".

Some lockdown measures have been eased in England but restrictions on how many people you can meet remain in place.

But any further relaxation of the rules had to be "fair" and "consistent with public health advice", Harries said.

For the latest guidance on lockdown measures and who you are allowed to meet click here.