The accident happened when a Jabiru aircraft landed at Gransden Lodge Airfield in Cambridgeshire.

Fancy dress Fridays catches on as video conferencing replaces office meetings.

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BBC Radio Cambridgeshire

The grounds team at Cambridge United's Abbey Stadium have painted a thank-you message to NHS workers on the pitch.

The design includes a rainbow and a heart.

Ian Darler, stadium manager, said during his time at the club, he had been fortunate to work with doctors, ambulance officers, paramedics, police and firefighters who all pulled together when an emergency situation occurred.

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Another secret venue has been turned blue to thank the NHS and key workers for their hard work during the coronavirus pandemic.

Anglia Ruskin University's Young Street building, in Cambridge, was the third in the city to go blue as part of the #LightItBlue campaign at 20:00 yesterday to tie in with the Clap For Carers event.

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The building is home to the faculty of health, education, medicine and social care, where it is used for teaching nursing and midwifery.

Prof Nigel Harrison said: “It is an opportunity for ARU to pay tribute and to say thank you, to our NHS partners, whose courageous and compassionate staff, together with our students, are working so hard to fight against the coronavirus pandemic.”

Thursday is becoming Dance on Your Doorstep day as these boogie-woogie fans demonstrate.

A table-top fantasy games enthusiast, with a 3D printer to make the figures used in make-believe battles, has delivered more 1,079 visors to Peterborough Hospital, external.

James Anderson, of Oundle, who makes maps for a living, issued a crowdfunding appeal and raised £6,300 which enabled him to buy more 3D printers.

He was inspired to make the visors when he heard there was a shortage of personal protective equipment and contacted Peterborough hospital who told him face and eye protection was needed.

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Nine machines are now working to produce more than 60 "comfortable" visors a day for the hospital's nursing staff - each one takes about two-and-a-half hours to print.

The hospital's supplies manager phoned over the weekend to say how grateful they were for the visors which were a favourite of the nurses because they were comfortable to wear.

One city's bin collectors have received gifts and messages of appreciation during the lockdown.

Matt Precey
BBC Look East

The latest figures were released by the government , externalshowed that there was an increase of 128 deaths in the East, bringing the total to 1,424.

Here is the breakdown from each NHS Trust in the area.

• Anglian Community Enterprise CIC Fryatt Hospital - 1
• Basildon and Thurrock University Hospitals NHS Trust - 16
• Bedford Hospital NHS Trust - 7
• Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust - 7
• East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust - 3
• East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust - 14
• Hertfordshire Community NHS Trust - 1
• James Paget University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust - 5
• Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation Trust - 4
• Luton and Dunstable University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust - 2
• Mid Essex Hospital Services NHS Trust - 3
• Milton Keynes University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust - 4
• Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust - 2
• North West Anglia NHS Foundation Trust - 6
• Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust - 10
• Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust - 1
• Southend University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust - 7
• The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust - 14
• West Hertfordshire Hospitals NHS Trust - 20
• West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust - 1

It brings the total number of COVID-19 associated UK deaths in hospitals to 12,868.

G's Growers says the 180 Romanian workers will train its mainly UK-based workforce.

About 300 people will take part in an online video after events marking the day were cancelled.

Staff at Manea Community Primary School in Cambridgeshire have been delivering lunches to vulnerable students in the local area to make sure children and their families have one less thing to worry about.

The packages are put on the door and staff are making sure to observe social disancing while still getting to check in and say hello to pupils and their families.

Head teacher Nicky Froggatt said: “It’s even more important to make sure that people have what they need to keep them going at the present time. I’m really proud that I, and my senior leaders Frankie Lenton and Emma Revell, have been able to keep providing lunches to our children who are in receipt of free school meals via this ‘school meals on wheels’ service.

"It’s lovely to be able to say hello to the children and their families, and to let them know that although the school is closed to the majority of children, we’re still here to support them.”

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The manager of a UK care home where six residents have died in eight days has moved in and sleeps in her office.

Heidi Seldon said they had lost a third of the people they look after at Philia Lodge care home in Peterborough.

She said: "What I wasn't prepared for was how hard it was going to be, emotionally, watching so many of my residents suffering from coronavirus. We're just trying to hold ourselves together."

Matt Precey
BBC Look East

In the latest figures released yesterday evening from Public Health England, external, it showed that there had been an increase of 89 deaths.

Here is the breakdown from each NHS Trust in the East.

• Basildon and Thurrock University Hospitals NHS Trust - 19
• Bedford Hospital NHS Trust - 6
• Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust - 1
• Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust - 4
• East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust - 6
• East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust - 6
• Hertfordshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust - 1
• James Paget University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust - 3
• Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation Trust - 5
• Mid Essex Hospital Services NHS Trust - 5
• Milton Keynes University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust - 5
• Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust - 4
• North West Anglia NHS Foundation Trust - 2
• The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust - 7
• West Hertfordshire Hospitals NHS Trust - 15

It brings the total numbers of deaths to 1,190 in this region.

The manager says seeing six people die in eight days has been emotionally hard for her staff.

A gin distillery has donated 10 litres of hand sanitiser to social workers and personal advisers working for Cambridgeshire County Council.

Roundwood Gin, based in Abbots Ripton, switched production several weeks ago.

"The sanitiser will ensure that frontline staff are keeping themselves and young people in care safe during visitations," the council said.

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BBC News

Two councils say they need more foster carers to support children during the coronavirus pandemic.

Cambridgeshire County Council, external and Peterborough City Council, external are asking anyone who could support children to get in touch, after the number of people enquiring about becoming carers "dipped".

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Simon Bywater, Cambridgeshire County Council chairman of the Children and Young People Committee, said: "While many of us have family and friends who are there to support us in these difficult times, there are many children and young people across the county who are in need of that support more than ever."

The councils said all carers would receive training, 24-hour access to support and allowances.

Peterborough city councillor Lynne Ayres said teams would adhere to government advice and social distancing rules throughout the application process.

Police say they have now identified a woman whose body was discovered in a Lincolnshire waterway at the weekend.

Her body was found in the River Welland near to houses on Eastgate at Deeping St James on Sunday, with police treating her death as "unexplained".

Officers say formal identification is yet to take place, but the woman was an 89-year-old from the Deeping St James area.

More than 500 Easter eggs that were due to be used during an annual hunt at a wildlife park have been donated to a food bank.

Shepreth Wildlife Park, in Cambridgeshire, said not being able to hold the event was a big loss to the park, but it hoped people would still get pleasure from them.

The park says it needs thousands of pounds to keep it afloat while its doors are locked during the coronavirus pandemic.

Pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca, external is launching its fastest ever clinical drugs trial to see whether a cancer medicine can help people with Covid-19.

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The Cambridge-based company says it is rushing through global testing for Calquence, currently used to treat some blood cancers.

It believes the drug could help to cut deaths from Covid-19 and the need for patients to be put on ventilators.

Covid-19 can trigger an exaggerated immune system response in some patients, increasing harm on the respiratory system.

There have been encouraging early clinical results, the firm said, which suggest that suppressing the inflammation caused by the immune response may reduce coronavirus's respiratory impact.

Trials are due to open in the next few days, with the firm's Jose Baselga saying: "This is the fastest launch of any clinical trial in the history of AstraZeneca."

A park near Cambridge says it has "lost all income required to keep it open as a viable park" because of coronavirus.

Milton Country Park, which is managed by the charity Cambridge Sport Lakes Trust, is trying to raise £10,000 as it says it "receives no regular external funding and its survival is reliant on the support of its users and the activity and events programme it provides".

"We are fighting to remain open to provide a safe green space for people to access, exercise, and take time in while, and if, they are still able," managers say.

While the park areas are still open for people to take exercise, abiding by regulations about social distancing, no events or activities can take place and the cafe and visitor centre are closed.

So far £3,300 has been raised by more than 100 supporters.

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