Summary

  • All the latest from Beds, Bucks, Cambs, Essex, Herts, Norfolk, Northants and Suffolk

  • The number of Covid-19 deaths in the East reaches 3,095

  • Tourist coast fears influx as lockdown restrictions relaxed

  • Tennis club smashed by falling tree

  • Queues warning as more household waste sites reopen

  1. Passenger quarantine 'devastating' for regional airportspublished at 09:11 British Summer Time 11 May 2020

    Claire Gilbody-Dickerson
    BBC News

    An airport boss has written to the Prime Minister to warn that the potential move to quarantine passengers returning to the UK could deal a "devastating blow" to their business.

    Andrew Bell, chief executive of Regional & City Airports, called on the government to ensure it takes "appropriate safeguards around time-limiting the measures and supporting businesses affected during quarantine".

    The operator runs three airports in Norwich (pictured), Bournemouth and Exeter. In a letter seen by the BBC, Mr Bell said "blanket, open-ended" restrictions could damage the airports, on which 3,000 people's jobs rely.

    Norwich Airport

    Before Covid 19, up to 2.4m passengers travelled through its airports every year, the chief executive said.

    Mr Bell appealed for a "clear exit strategy" to be published in due time as a "protracted period of zero, or near zero passengers, is simply unsustainable".

  2. Chainsaw carving of Captain Tom raises £7Kpublished at 09:03 British Summer Time 11 May 2020

    Simon Bogg says it took him 10 days to make the sculpture in tribute to the "absolute legend".

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  3. Watford oppose neutral venue proposalspublished at 09:03 British Summer Time 11 May 2020

    Watford become the third team to publicly oppose the use of neutral venues when Premier League football returns.

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  4. The effect of lockdown on Little Americapublished at 08:39 British Summer Time 11 May 2020

    How are the communities that rely so heavily on the US airbases coping under lockdown?

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  5. Coronavirus deaths in the East rise by 24published at 08:35 British Summer Time 11 May 2020

    The latest figures for the number of Covid-19 deaths each day in NHS hospitals in the East of England have been released by the government, external.

    There were 24 deaths in yesterday's figures:

    • Clacton Hospital: 1
    • Basildon and Thurrock: 1
    • Bedford Hospital: 5
    • Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust: 1
    • Cambridge University Hospitals (inc Addenbrooke's): 3
    • East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust: 1
    • East Suffolk and North Essex (Ipswich and Colchester): 2
    • Mid Essex Hospital Services NHS Trust: 4
    • Norfolk and Norwich: 1
    • North West Anglia (Peterborough and Hinchingbrooke): 1
    • Princess Alexandra, Harlow: 1
    • West Suffolk, Bury St Edmunds: 3

    The total number of Covid-19 related deaths across the UK is 31,855 - a rise of 269.

  6. Father's 'miraculous' recovery set to be studiedpublished at 08:24 British Summer Time 11 May 2020

    Omar Taylor is at home with his family after six weeks in hospital battling coronavirus.

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  7. Historic windmill's celebrations on holdpublished at 08:24 British Summer Time 11 May 2020

    A windmill's 200th anniversary celebrations have been postponed due to the coronavirus lockdown.

    Thurne Windmill, external on The Broads in Norfolk was built in 1820 to help drain the marshes and provide farmland.

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    Owner Debra Nicholson and the Friends of Thurne Windmill had been organising a range of events in August to celebrate its double centenary.

    Mrs Nicholson said it was sad the events had been postponed but "important that everyone stays safe".

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  8. Rise in Covid-19 deaths increases by 24 across Eastpublished at 08:17 British Summer Time 11 May 2020

    The government's figures for the increase in the number of deaths in hospitals from Covid-19 has risen by 24.

    The total number of deaths in the East of England reached 3,095 when figures were issued, external on Sunday.

    The number of deaths across the whole UK is 31,855 - a rise of 269.

    More details to come...

  9. KFC 'lockdown litter lout' angers thousandspublished at 08:08 British Summer Time 11 May 2020

    A man pleads with people not to return to "lazy habits" of littering as more takeaways reopen.

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  10. Welcome to Monday's coronavirus updatespublished at 08:01 British Summer Time 11 May 2020

    We will be bringing you all the latest coronavirus news from across the East of England - from the latest statistics to how key workers and our communities are coping.

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