Alex Pope
BBC News Online

There are so many different ways to stay active during lockdown, including taking part in the 2.6 challenge.

Anyone can take part by doing anything with the number 26 or 2.6 in it, to mark the length of the London Marathon, which should have taken place on Sunday.

Here are firefighters from Stanground in Peterborough, showing us how it can be done.

A special thank you has been bestowed upon the person who painted a "thank you" to NHS staff outside a hospital in Cambridgeshire.

Hinchingbrooke Hospital in Huntingdon said the "fab road artwork" on its approach was a "lovely message to greet you on your way to work".

"Thank you to the person who created it," a spokesman said.

Image source, Hinchingbrooke Hospital

Doctors warn patients "scared" of coronavirus and burdening the NHS are not seeking treatment.

Imogen hopes people will donate keepy-uppies and cash for the 7.1m UK key workers.

This is how Cambridgeshire's newspapers are covering the coronavirus pandemic:

• Cambridge News, external reports on tributes to a magistrate who died after contracting Covid-19
• The Wisbech Standard writes, external about a Fenland photographer who has raised more than £1,800 for NHS charities after running three half marathons in three days
• And Peterborough Today, external has pictures after a knitter created a window display of key workers and Captain Tom Moore in the city

L/Cpl Hayden Prince was abseiling when a rock to which his rope was attached fell down the mountain.

The father of Peterborough MP Paul Bristow passed away at home with a brain tumour.

Fishermen who made long journeys to lakes in Cambridgeshire have been fined by police.

Officers said they issued penalty notices to an angler who had travelled 93 miles (150km) from Lowestoft, as well as to people from Northamptonshire and Wolverhampton spotted fishing at the lake by the former Mepal Outdoor Centre, near Ely.

"People should not be leaving their houses in order to go fishing recreationally," police warned.

It comes after officers in the county fined two more anglers on Friday, who had travelled 22 miles (35km) to Burnside Lakes in Cambridge.

Jenny Esson, 45, worked for an NHS trust that deals with mental health.

Local Democracy Reporting Service

The chief executive of Cambridgeshire County Council has said "there is sufficient PPE [personal protective equipment]" for the county’s care home staff.

Gillian Beasley said: "The care homes now are able to source their PPE through what is called the PPE hub, which is in Alconbury.

"There are supplies there, and there was another delivery of supplies this week, and so they are able to source PPE for their purposes."

NHS trusts have previously issued public calls for more PPE during the outbreak, including the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust.

Image source, Getty Images

Helen Burchell
BBC News Online

A jewellery designer has donated more than 100 of her handmade items to hospital staff working on the front line in the fight against Covid-19.

Tali Iserles, who runs a company from her home in Ely, Cambridgeshire, said: "I don’t have a sewing machine or a 3D printer and I don’t have first aid skills, but like so many other people I’ve been watching events unfold, feeling helpless and depressed."

Image source, Tali Iserles

So, instead of sewing scrubs or printing safety visors, she donated bracelets, bangles, earrings, necklaces and rings to be shared out among staff working on Covid wards at Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge.

Image source, Tali Iserles

Ms Iserles said she hoped her gifts would "bring a smile to their faces", adding staff at the hospital had saved her life when she was pregnant with her first child, and she "cannot imagine what they're having to deal with now".

Hundreds of university students are to join NHS front line staff.

So far 133 adult nursing and mental health nursing students at Essex and Cambridgeshire-based Anglia Ruskin University, external have completed their degrees, so they can apply for Nursing and Midwifery Council registration and begin employment.

More than 300 students, in their final six months of their degrees, are also undertaking extended clinical placements.

Image source, PA

College members of staff have also returned, including Melanie Bird, head of school of nursing and midwifery.

"It is enormous credit to our students that they have stepped up and made themselves available," she said

"We will work with our NHS partners to continue to support these, and indeed all of our students, to ensure they remain safe.

"While it will be daunting for many, this is an unprecedented situation for them to be facing so early in their careers, which will stand them in good stead for the future."

Brett Moore was an inmate at HMP Peterborough when he died on 18 March, days before a man at HMP Littlehey.

Alex Pope
BBC News Online

Image source, The Crane Event

For the past four weeks a number of buildings across Cambridge have been bathed in blue light, to thank NHS staff and key workers.

Until last night, only one building has been lit up each week, when Royal Papworth Hospital and Trinity College where chosen.

Justin Crane, director of The Crane Event, just one of the companies behind the idea, said they had to bring in extra help to deal with requests.

"When our inboxes started to fill up with the positive responses from venues, we knew just who to turn to help us expand."

Four other companies are now involved, including Blueshed, JezO’s, JMPS and Pink Lamp.

Image source, The Crane Event

The chosen building is kept secret, until the big reveal at 18:00 on Thursdays.

Dame Sally Davies, master of Trinity, said: "It’s wonderful to see the Wren Library turning blue. I know from my lifetime on the front line of the NHS and then as Chief Medical Officer how hardworking, dedicated and selfless NHS staff are."

Up to 10 million key workers and their households can now book a coronavirus test online or through their employer.

The move allows all essential workers , externalin England to register for tests on the government's website, external, if they or a family member have virus symptoms.

Health Secretary Matt Hancock said the expanded testing programme was "part of getting Britain back on her feet".

As part of the effort The East of England Arena, external in Peterborough is to be converted into a drive-through testing facility.

The showground will be one of more than 30 sites operating across Britain.

Image source, The East of England Arena

A mother of a baby boy, born seven weeks early, has taken the time to write to the Rosie Hospital in Cambridge to thank the staff for helping keep her little boy safe and getting him home.

He had to "spend a short time in NICU [neo-natal intensive care unit] where he received fantastic care", she said.

The mother was unable to visit the unit due to coronavirus restrictions.

"With the visiting restrictions, it was difficult to leave him, but, knowng he was surrounded by such loving people made it bearable," she added.

For the fifth week in a row, people across the country have opened their windows and gone to their front doors to celebrate carers and key workers.

Many emergency services congregate by hospitals to show their appreciation.

Here is a very small sample:

In Cambridge... emergency workers and the public gathered at the heart and lung hospital...

Whereas at the Suffolk Owl Sanctuary in Stonham, they're claiming a clap with a difference...

Matt Precey
BBC Look East

The latest figures for the number of Covid-19 deaths in the East of England has been released by the government, external.

In the BBC East region, statistics for the NHS hospital trusts show a rise of 101 deaths in total, up from the previous day's figure of 80.

The total number of deaths at the region's hospitals is now 2,144.

• ·Basildon and Thurrock: 2
• ·Bedford: 4
• ·Buckinghamshire Healthcare: 3

• ·Addenbrooke's: 3
• ·East and North Hertfordshire: 5
• ·Colchester and Ipswich: 11
• ·Kettering General: 6
• ·Luton and Dunstable: 3
• ·Broomfield, Chelmsford: 3
• ·Milton Keynes: 4
• ·Norfolk and Norwich: 2
• ·Norfolk Community: 1
• ·North West Anglia, Peterborough and Hinchingbrooke: 5
• ·Northampton General: 11
• ·Northamptonshire Healthcare: 1
• ·Royal Papworth, Cambridge: 2

• ·Southend: 6
• ·Princess Alexandra, Harlow: 1
• ·Queen Elizabeth, King's Lynn: 6
• ·West Hertfordshire Hospitals: 20
• ·West Suffolk: 2

The total number of coronavirus-related UK deaths in hospitals is 18,738.

A couple have painted a rainbow on the side of a village house in tribute to their children who work as NHS nurses.

Former art teacher Ron Nix and his wife Jo painted it on their whitewashed home in Milton, near Cambridge, on Tuesday.

"It took most of the day, but luckily I had all the acrylic colours," said Mr Nix.

Image source, Jo Nix

He taught art at Bottisham Village College for 32 years before retiring, and said the rainbow - which has attracted a lot of attention on social media and hoots and waves from passing drivers - was done as a tribute to those working in the NHS.

They include his daughter, an ICU nurse in Wakefield, and his son, a theatre nurse at Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge.

The couple's son-in-law and daughter-in-law are also GPs.

Mr Nix said the rainbow would stay on the house "as long as we are all going through this".

Nicolae Budurus punched Audrius Lapinskas outside his home in Peterborough, a court hears.