Summary

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

  • Watford FC records three of six positive coronavirus tests among Premier League clubs

  • The number of Covid-19 deaths in the region's hospitals rises by 19 to 3,336

  • Arise, Captain Tom - the charity fundraiser is to receive a knighthood

Live Reporting

  1. Cambridge lectures to be online-only in 2020-21

    There will be no face-to-face lectures in the next academic year due to coronavirus, the university says.

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  2. 'Fitting honour' for Capt Tom as knighthood announced

    Katy Lewis
    BBC News Online

    Congratulations for Captain Tom Moore are already coming in after the announcement that he is to be knighted for his fundraising efforts after a special nomination from the prime minister.

    The war veteran raised more than £32m for NHS charities by completing 100 laps of his garden in Marston Moretaine in Bedfordshire before his 100th birthday last month.

    Michael Ball, whose version of You'll Never Walk Alone recorded with Capt Tom reached #1, said it was a "fitting honour for a true British hero".

    And for those wondering - as an honorary colonel, his official title will be Captain Sir Thomas Moore under Ministry of Defence protocol.

    Michael Ball holding a number one signPA Media

    Michael Ball celebrates his number one single recorded with Captain Tom

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  3. Covid-19 deaths rising more steeply again

    As we reported yesterday afternoon on our live page, the number of Covid-19 deaths in the region's hospitals rose more than in the previous two days' figures, according to the government.

    There were 27 deaths in Tuesday's statistics, compared to 19 in Monday's and 12 the day before that.

    The hospital with the largest number of new deaths in yesterday's figures was Bedford with six.

    The total number of people who have died from Covid-19-related illnesses in the BBC East region is now 3,336.

  4. Dancers back home after weeks stuck on cruise ship

    Lauren Carrick, from Norfolk, and her fiancé Joseph Harrison, from Hull, flew from Miami Airport.

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  5. Welcome to Wednesday's coronavirus updates

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