Police are renewing their appeal for help identifying the body of a woman found in a river in Deeping St James at the weekend.

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Police were called to the River Welland near houses on Eastgate at about 07:30 on Sunday morning after a call from a local resident.

The woman's body was recovered from the water and her death is currently being treated as unexplained, according to Lincolnshire Police.

The force has now released a more detailed description which it hopes will jog someone's memory.

The woman is thought to be in her late 70s-80s, about 5ft 4ins tall, of medium build, with white/grey hair.

She was wearing a brown tartan woollen coat with a hood, over a bright orange top, a brown silk headscarf worn round the neck, cream trousers, blue socks and blue sandals.

It is possible she may have used a wooden walking stick with a curved handle, officers say.

Anyone with information about who the woman might be is being asked to contact police.

The body of the woman, thought to be in her 70s or 80s, was found in the River Welland at Deeping St James.

Individuals and companies have donated the chocolate to give front line staff an Easter treat.

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, external, in Cambridgeshire said not being able to hold the event "is a massive loss" to the park.

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"It was good to be able to donate these chocolate eggs to others in need and we hope some people will at least get a bit of pleasure from them still," it said.

A "dedicated clinical engineering team" at the Royal Papworth Hospital in Cambridge have built ventilators to help treat patients.

The hospital said in total 35 machines had been made and were now ready to use.

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Police in Cambridgeshire have taken to Twitter to clarify that they are not "monitoring what people are buying from supermarkets".

The force said an earlier message was sent out "with good intentions" by an "over-exuberant officer who has been spoken to since this tweet was published".

The now-deleted tweet said when officers visited a local supermarket as part of its patrols, it was "good to see everyone was abiding by social distancing measures and the non-essential aisles were empty".

Police said: "We have had to issue a small number of fines to those who are flouting the rules. None of these have been in relation to shopping or supermarket visits."

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