Rob and Kim Scholefield were told the cancer was inoperable due to its proximity to the brain.

People with disabilities in Peterborough can now book a free "handyman" service.

It's been set up by the charity Disability Peterborough, external, which recognises getting help with small jobs around the home is difficult, especially during lockdown.

The scheme is also open to single parents of disabled children and vulnerable older people.

Julie Fernandez from the charity said while people can go out and do their shopping "lots of disabled people physically couldn't take their shopping up from the front door and into their homes".

Southend release former Australia midfielder Mark Milligan, Luke Hyam, Sam Mantom and two others after relegation.

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It’s 100 days since lockdown started.

What have we learned (eg BBC Newsbeat has been to Telford in Shropshire)? Where are we now? What next for the East of England as lockdown eases?

BBC East will be asking these question on its Facebook Live discussion, external and answering your questions tonight at 18:45.

In the meantime here's what lockdown has meant to some of the team at BBC East, such as learning the art of making the perfect banana cake:

A music producer/director says he feels singing is "under threat" due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Dave Cooke, director of the Waterside Choirs, external in Leigh-on-Sea, says he doesn't know how group singing can return and has raised the possibility of singing outside.

"Choirs are more than a hobby - they're life-affirming. We have people who are vulnerable, people who do teaching and nursing and for them it is really valuable," he said.

Chances of transmission of Covid-19 are greatly increased when people shout or sing.

At present choirs aren't able to meet and places of worship won't include songs when services return in July. Weddings can go ahead but without singing.

There have also been calls for landlords to make sure there's no singing in pubs at the weekend.

A pre-recorded national anthem and medical screenings - BBC Sport's James Law on the first behind-closed-doors Wembley final.

Northampton Town's 4-0 play-off final victory over Exeter was the first time their manager, ex-England defender Keith Curle, who has managed six different clubs, had guided a team to promotion.

Naturally, he was more than pleased.

A report finds Joseph McCann was "managed by an unstable team", lacking experienced staff.

Essex Police has made a dispersal order for Brentwood town centre, after reports of "a large group of people, all believed to be teenagers, being abusive and creating a disturbance" on the High Street at about 21:35 on Monday evening.

It follows a dispersal order being put in place in Leigh-on-Sea after a "disturbance" on Friday night.

Insp Terry Fisher said: "We won’t tolerate members of the public being subjected to abuse or any behaviour which may cause them to fear for their safety."

Greater Anglia says it will be reintroducing most of its timetable from Monday, as more people return to work after the latest easing of coronavirus restrictions.

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Some 46,000 more seats are going to be available as of next week during peak times - fulfulling 93% of normal services.

But trains between Norwich, Diss and London will remain scaled back, although they will be monitored on a daily basis to see whether more trains need to be put on, the operator said.

Tickets offices will all reopen and on the London services catering will return.

Jonathan Denby, from Greater Anglia, said the number of inter city trains will increase but "we still expect there to be an awful lot of people who won't be travelling normally yet".

He added the government advice was still to only travel where necessary.

Four men have been arrested on suspicion of human trafficking following the discovery at a farm.

Popstar-turned-Finedon vicar the Reverend Richard Coles, external has sent his congratulations to Northampton Town on their play-off final victory.

Revd Coles is one of the co-presenters on BBC Radio 4's Saturday Live and chancellor of the University of Northampton.

* You Are My World, external by The Communards - #30 UK singles chart 1985, and #21 with a 1987 remix

How one man became a fundraising hero and helped lift the lockdown blues.

Loyal Cobblers fans appeared to forget social distancing as they welcomed home their team which thrashed Exeter City 4-0 in the League Two play-off final at Wembley on Monday.

The victory sees Northampton promoted back to the third tier after two seasons in League Two.

Manager Keith Curle said he was in talks with West Bromwich Albion about keeping 20-year-old loan striker Callum Morton.

He scored once and was man of the match at Wembley, having scored twice in the semi-final second leg.

Coronavirus restrictions meant there were no fans at Wembley, but they were out in force to welcome them back to Sixfields.

Northampton Town manager Keith Curle says he "needed a promotion" on his managerial CV after leading them to League One.

Three more patients have died in hospital of coronavirus in the east of England according to the latest daily government figures, external issued on Monday.

The deaths were at the following NHS trusts:

• Basildon and Thurrock University Hospitals: 1
• Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust: 1
• Southend University Hospital Trust: 1

The total number of deaths for the eastern region is 3,970.

Across the UK the number of deaths increased by 25 and stands at 43,575.

Northampton Town win promotion at an empty Wembley as they ease past 10-man Exeter City in the League Two play-off final.

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