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A regular customer has been given a surprise 90th birthday party by Asda store workers.

Former nurse Eileen Hamilton spent her birthday at home due to the coronavirus lockdown.

When staff at the supermarket in Wisbech, Cambridgeshire found out they decorated the outside of her bungalow with balloons, brought her cake and read out birthday messages from her family before singing happy birthday.

Mrs Hamilton said the surprise had been "like a fairytale".

"The thoughtfulness and kindness of people is out of this world," she said.

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Store manager Matt Morris said he had found out about the birthday through their delivery drivers.

He said Mrs Hamilton's family, based in the north of England and New Zealand, "couldn't get to see her" so "we arranged that we would go round and celebrate with her".

"Eileen was taken back a bit by it all and quite emotional," he added.

"She was very thankful and it really made her day. It was amazing to see everyone pull together."

Mrs Hamilton's daughter Christine Maskill, who lives in York, called the gesture "wonderful".

"It was a lovely birthday that will not be forgotten. People are still talking about it."

Dental practices across the region are reopening for the first time since all routine dental care was suspended on 25 March.

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NHS England said dental surgeries could resume as normal as long as they put appropriate safety measures in place.

Dentist Alisdair McKendrick said people attending Anterior Dental Care in Kettering will have their temperatures taken as they enter and there will be no waiting room system.

He said dentists will be dressed in visors, masks and goggles.

"It's not going to be the same, but hopefully these things will relax as things flatten out," he added.

Elsewhere, Morne Williams, a dentist at We-Care Dental in Peterborough, said allowing 15 minutes between patients to clean dental rooms would mean the surgery would be seeing four to eight patients a day, rather than 15 to 20.

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BBC News

One thing we've seen all the way through lockdown is how emergency services have responded to make the birthdays of young people special, at a time where they can't have a party with their friends.

Six-year old Alex from Sawtry, Cambridgeshire, was given a blue light greeting yesterday and a tour of a police car.

His mum said the visit made him "very happy" and Alex went to bed talking about it.

Julian Sturdy
BBC Look East

Government statistics recording the latest daily coranavirus deaths, external show there was an increase of six deaths in the region's hospitals, taking the total number to 3,775.

The deaths, listed by NHS trust, are:

• Norfolk Community Health and Care: 1
• North West Anglia (Peterborough and Hinchingbrooke hospitals): 2
• Northampton General Hospital: 2
• Royal Papworth Hospital, Cambridge: 1

Friday's statistics showed a rise of 19 deaths, with a rise of 29 in Thursday's figures.

The total number of Covid-19 associated UK deaths now stands at 40,542.

The protest was one of dozens held in the UK amid global outrage at the killing of George Floyd.

Cambridgeshire Police's chief assesses footage thought to show the driver was stopped for being black.

Susan van de Ven is a councillor in Cambridgeshire whose father was killed in Beirut in the 1980s.

They star in a new work by poet Jude Simpson, who looks ahead to a post-lockdown UK.

Aerobatic pilot Mark Jefferies says he wants to inspire a new generation as the industry struggles.

Patrick Byrne
BBC News

Cambridge University Botanical Gardens, external has announced it is to reopen to the public on Tuesday, 16 June, but with new procedures and rules.

Entry will be by pre-booked tickets only (including for Friends of the gardens) in order to control the number of visitors on site.

Social distancing and hygiene measures will be put in place to prevent the spread of Covid-19.

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Tickets will be released at 10:00 each Thursday.

"We know there will be a high demand and you may be disappointed if tickets are unavailable for your preferred day," the website said.

Dan Ridlington is relearning simple tasks after spending 54 days in critical care.

BBC Radio Cambridgeshire

A Cambridge-based pharmaceutical company claims it can now supply two billion doses of a potential coronavirus vaccine, which is double the number it announced last month.

AstraZeneca, external has signed two new deals, including one backed by Microsoft, external computer system founder Bill Gates, allowing it to double production of the vaccine being developed by Oxford University.

Pascal Soriot, from AstraZeneca, said the firm should know by September if it works.

"It is still on track but of course what we cannot predict is the speed the disease will [spread] in the UK," he said.

"On the one hand we want to see the disease decline, but on the other it will create an issue because we may not be able to show the efficacy of the vaccine."

BBC Radio Cambridgeshire

Technology aimed at keeping public transport passengers safe from coronavirus is being rolled out across a fleet of Cambridgeshire coaches.

Greys of Ely, external has teamed up with transport operator Zeelo, external to install a system which claims to clean 99% of air particles on vehicles.

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The coach firm's managing director Richard Grey said: "Above your head the vehicle is fitted with an Eco-3 air purifying unit. So that means it increases the oxygen rate in the vehicle and helps sanitise the air within.

"The unit will recirculate the air within three to five minutes so you are constantly supplied with fresh air."

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A drive-through coronavirus testing facility is opening today at Milton Park and Ride, external near Cambridge.

It will initially run on a trial basis, the government said.

A similar facility at the East of England Showground, external in Peterborough opened in April.

The local NHS Clinical Commissioning Group hopes the two centres will make it easier for people who are showing symptoms to get tested in Cambridgeshire.

She is filmed driving at double the speed limit and on the wrong side of the road in a village.

Towns already exposed to "economic shocks" could feel the impact of coronavirus, a study warns.

Pete Cooper
BBC News

Many athletes have had to adapt to training in lockdown.

But what if your sport requires specialist equipment and preferably some ice?

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Jamaican bobsleigh team members Shanwayne Stephens (white T-shirt) and Nimroy Turgott (grey T-shirt), who are based in Peterborough, have had to adapt during the coronavirus pandemic in preparation for the 2022 Winter Oympics in Beijing.

They have been running in a nearby park, dragging weights behind them and using a home-made gym in their back garden.

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And to train for the all important start, Turgott has been pushing a mini...

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But they haven't been able to improvise any snow or a bobsleigh run.

Rappers Ice-T and Chuck D are among stars to have shared Nathan Murdoch's heart shape design.

Suzie Vaughan says she thought her "heart was going to burst" when she saw her daughters again.

Kane Mitchell is accused of killing 12-week-old Teddie Mitchell, who died in November.