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Another 41 people have died with coronavirus in the BBC East region since yesterday, bringing the total of hospital deaths in our region to 2,831 according to latest figures from NHS England.

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A theatre with a difference has been set up in a garage in a Northamptonshire village.

The "Garage Theatre" is the brainchild of Fiona O'Mahony and performances from the venue in Crick will be streamed on YouTube.

Image source, Matthew Sharp/YouTube

She said: "The plan is to stream different shows within the next few weeks to provide some family entertainment."

She said the performances, which feature cellist and actor Matthew Sharp, will also raise money for the Action For Children charity.

Officers identify the figure as a teenager and speak to him about "the consequences of his actions".

• The East Anglian Daily Times , externalhas a picture gallery of a deserted Bury St Edmunds during lockdown
• The owners of a pub in Sudbury have thanked the community for their continued support during the coronavirus lockdown, reports the Suffolk Free Press, external
• The Ipswich Star has an interview, external with Ipswich Town's former goalkeeper, Canadian Craig Forrest, who talks about his time at the club and working with actor Ryan Reynolds on supporting those tackling coronavirus

The police ask the rider to reflect on "whether his journey really was essential" during lockdown.

Sci-fi fans on social media are marking what has become known as Star Wars Day.

Today's date, 4 May, was chosen for the pun on the movies' phrase "may the Force be with you".

Step forward Cambridge's Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences - which hosts a collection of fossils, crystals and zeolites - which is of course closed to the public during the coronavirus lockdown.

It has produced this interpretation of a light sabre battle from the celebrated series of films.

Pete Cooper
BBC News

Another council has said it wants to reopen all of its household recycling centres on Monday, 11 May.

Cambridgeshire County Council said people should only go if waste or recycling cannot be stored at home "without causing risk of injury to health or harm".

Since council recycling centre closed fly-tipping has increased. A fly-tipping reporting page told BBC Look East that cases uploaded to its site across the UK were up 75%.

The council said the conditions of opening will include:

• A limit to vehicle numbers on site
• No more than two adults to be allowed to unload any one vehicle
• No staff assistance to unload vehicles
• No vans or trailers that require a permit

It said there may be further restrictions on individual sites with more detail to be released this week.

People have brought cuddly toys, biscuits and notes to a front garden after the display disappeared.

Image source, Richer View Media Productions

A creative family has produced a touching video vignette, external of lockdown life in a Northamptonshire village.

Frankie and Rich Baldwins, who live in Great Houghton near Northampton, run a media production business and shot footage of their neighbours during their daily walk.

Their six-year-old daughter, Amelie, provided the voiceover.

On Facebook, the family said they hope it will become a "wonderful memory of strange times."

• The Gazette reports, external Colchester Zoo's managing director has paid tribute to the "kindness and generosity" shown to the attraction in a letter to supporters
• A council leader has announced which firms are preparing to reopen this week in a bid to try to get the economy in south Essex moving according to the Echo, external

Staff found a novel way to allow families to safely see their loved ones.

Image source, SK Shlomo

Sheringham Little Theatre has teamed up with an international beatboxer for a live-streamed interactive show, which is raising funds for NHS charities.

SK Shlomo (pictured), who has worked with Ed Sheeran and Lily Allen, will teach vocal skills, showing children in lockdown how to become "superstar beatboxers".

Over the course of six weeks, for 30 minutes every Thursday at 14:00, Sheringham Little Theatre, external will be playing his free weekly educational show live on its Facebook page, external.

Each week SK Shlomo will be joined by guests, external including Bastille, KT Tunstall, Bill Bailey, Basement Jaxx, Jason Mraz and BBC Radio 1’s Dr Rahda.

It is combined with a JustGiving campaign aiming to raise £2,500 for NHS Charities Together.

A junior doctor at a GP surgery says she expects to catch Covid-19 as she is "surrounded" by it.

BBC Sport

The Women's Tour 2020, which was due to finish in Suffok, has been cancelled for 2020 because of the coronavirus pandemic, but organisers have confirmed it will be rearranged for June next year.

The six-stage cycling race, which has been held in Britain every year since 2014, was due to take place from 8-13 June and was initially postponed in March.

Organisers SweetSpot have applied to cycling's governing body the UCI to stage the next edition between 7-12 June, 2021 using the same planned route.

Image source, Getty Images

The sixth and final stage is due to be between Haverhill and Felixstowe.

Hugh Roberts, from SweetSpot, said: "With the extra time now available we look forward to making next year’s Women’s Tour even bigger and better than before and a fantastic celebration of cycling and Britain."

Councillor James Reeder from Suffolk County Council said the cancellation was the "right decision" and it was looking forward to the race next year.

Rugby players raised £16,000 for a hospital charity when they ran a socially-distanced relay, covering 180 miles (290km) in 24 hours.

With no matches to play during lockdown, the Thurston Rangers, external players have been keeping in contact through the team WhatsApp group to "stave off boredom and encourage each other to stay fit".

One of the players came up with idea that they could run a relay between their home villages.

Image source, Thurston Rangers

Over the weekend, 52 players took part in the Rangers Relay Rainbow Run, keeping themselves two metres apart for their handovers.

They raised the money for My Wish Charity , externalat West Suffolk Hospital in Bury St Edmunds.

Matt Ansell, from the club, said: "As well as the great amount of money raised, the outcome has been a huge amount of pride amongst the players that they and the club have pulled together in this way."

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Greater Anglia has used special "fogging guns" to help clean their trains and stations during the coronavirus pandemic.

The train company, which operate in Cambridgeshire, Essex, Hertfordshire, Norfolk and Suffolk said the devices sanitise large areas and clean areas which are difficult to reach.

Image source, Greater Anglia

Martin Moran from Greater Anglia said: "We are doing all we can to keep trains clean for key workers and those who need to make essential journeys.

"If a person with suspected coronavirus travels on one of our trains, the train would be quarantined.

"Once it has been released, it undergoes a thorough deep-clean and part of this process involved using the 'fogging guns'."

A manger at a nature reserve said staff have noticed birds behaving differently, which they have put down to a lack of visitors to the site during the lockdown period.

Martin Lester said some species which might usually "hide" were being seen more often at the National Trust's Wicken Fen, external reserve in Cambridgeshire.

Image source, Justin Minns/National Trust

"The species that are here... are kind of behaving in a way that we've not seen before, because there are no people on the reserve, so they're in areas we don't normally see them," he said.

"The blackbirds and robins - they're always fairly resistant to human intrusion, but some of the less robust species like the warblers, some of the birds of prey, owls... they tend to hide themselves away, but this year, because there are no people on the trails... the birds are coming much closer to where we are."

He described it as "actually quite wonderful".

• The Eastern Daily Press , externalreports that two councils have between them paid out more than £20m in government grants to the owners of holiday lets during the coronavirus outbreak
• The Great Yarmouth Mercury, external has news of a brewery raising funds for the NHS through sales of a beer named in honour of the Nightingale hospitals
• And North Norfolk News, external writes that four of the region’s MPs are calling for greater government support to help the tourism industry recover from the pandemic

Image source, University of Essex

The University of Essex says it has been amazed by support from its Chinese alumni and partner institutions in China in response to the impact of coronavirus.

Huaqiao University in Fujian Province , externalin south west China sent facemasks which have been used by the university's cleaning and accommodation teams.

Meanwhile, six computational finance graduates have sent facemasks which are being made available to staff and students at the campus in Colchester.

"We care about the university where we spent years studying and living," said graduates Yu Zhang, Sissi Wang, Shuai Ma, Ming Shao, Ning Yao and Russell Miao.

"We want to help as much as we possibly can."