• A woman who punched a police officer at the height of the coronavirus crisis has been ordered to pay the officer £200 compensation, writes the Peterborough Telegraph, external
• And the Cambridge News, external reports that unemployment in the city has risen by 142% since March

The government wants to build up to one million new homes between Oxford and Cambridge by 2050.

Anne Hay says she felt "foolish" after falling into a ditch while searching for Truffles.

A double-decker bus has been branded in honour of Bedfordshire war veteran and NHS fundraiser Captain Tom Moore.

The Stagecoach East bus features a life-size picture of the 100-year-old inside, as well as his motto "tomorrow will be a good day". Externally, there is an advert promoting the Captain Tom Foundation.

Image source, Stagecoach

Image source, Stagecoach

The bus will initially be based in Bedford, close to Capt Tom's home village of Marston Moretaine, but it will later go into service at depots in Peterborough and Cambridge.

Capt Tom raised more than £30m for NHS charities by walking laps of his garden and will receive a knighthood following a special nomination from prime minister Boris Johnson.

She is able to spend time with them again after forming a "support bubble" with her daughter.

Former MP Fiona Onasanya asks why Coco Pops has a monkey logo while Rice Krispies has "white boys".

Hollywood Bowl, which has seven locations across the East of England says its centres will reopen from 4 July.

The 10-pin bowling alley firm has sites in Peterborough, Norwich, Stevenage, Wellingborough, Basildon and two in Watford.

They are among 54 centres that will reopen for the first time since the UK entered the coronavirus lockdown in March.

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Emergency services attended but the victim died at the scene, Cambridgeshire Police said.

• Pictures in the Cambridge News, external show the queues at shops as lockdown restrictions are eased
• The Ely Standard, external reports on non-essential shops reopening in the city
• The Peterborough Telegraph, external says garden waste bin collection are going on hold and binmen self-isolate

Bedfordshire attractions Whipsnade Zoo and Woburn Safari Park have reopened.

Whipsnade, external has set a limit of 3,000 people per day.

Woburn is open for car drive-through visits only and the park's website, external said it had sold-out for 15-21 June, but would be reviewing ticket availability on a "daily basis".

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Meanwhile, one of those "classic" images of the East of England is due to return in a couple of weeks:

Cambridge beat Oxford to win the first virtual Boat Race, with both teams competing on rowing machines at home.

Each team of eight collectively rowed 6.8km to raise money for Cambridge-based sport inclusion charity Power2Inspire, external.

The annual Boat Race between the university rivals was due to take place on the River Thames in London on 29 March, but the event was cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Three-time Olympic champion Pete Reed, who was paralysed from the chest down after a spinal stroke in 2019, competed for Oxford.

Reed was joined by Paralympic champion Grace Clough and world champion Oliver Cook, while Olympic champion Tom Ransley was part of the Cambridge team.

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Anyone travelling on public transport in England must wear a face covering from Monday.

More than 3,000 extra staff, including police officers, are on duty at bus and railway stations across the country to make sure people comply.

This has been the scene at Cambridge's main railway station this morning...

Passengers without a covering will be asked to wear one. If they refuse, they may not be allowed on board or they could be fined £100.

People with certain health conditions, disabled people and children under the age of 11 will be exempt from the rule.

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Detectives are treating the death of the 27-year-old man in Peterborough as an "isolated incident".

Peterborough owner Darragh MacAnthony says he has turned his focus to getting the club promoted next season.

Cambridge wIn the virtual Boat Race against Oxford, with both teams competing on rowing machines at home.

Midfielder Marcus Maddison is among six out-of-contact players to leave Peterborough United.

A 37-year-old man is arrested on suspicion of murder and remains in police custody.

Extinction Rebellion daub "eugenics is genocide" near the memorial window of a geneticist.

Nearly 4,000 children escaped the Spanish Civil War and many found refuge in Cambridge and Norfolk.

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Cambridgeshire County Council has sought advice from Public Health England, external over the apparent disparity between the county’s infection rate and the number of outbreaks in care homes.

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A council report, which refers to data provided by care homes to Public Health England, shows that as of 17 May, some 64 out of 131 care homes in the county reported a suspected or confirmed outbreak and in Peterborough it was 15 out of 35 care homes – 43%.

"This is higher than the national figure of 37.8% of homes with a suspected or confirmed outbreak," the report said.

The document also said that as of 28 May, the rate of Covid-19 infections in the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough local authority areas was 178.4 per 100,000 people and 207.9 per 100,000 people respectively, which is "comparatively lower than the overall rate in England of 269.6 per 100,000".

At a meeting of the adult’s committee, council service director for adults and safeguarding, Charlotte Black, said the disparity was "something we are trying to understand at the moment – we have sought advice from Public Health England".

She suggested it may be linked to how the data is recorded and reported, but said the council is "trying to get an official explanation for why that might be".