Updates for Norfolk
This is one of our region's many community hubs, which are helping to feed and support vulnerable people during the coronavirus pandemic.
The town hall in Great Yarmouth has been filled with food, donated mainly by local businesses.
It is delivered via the food bank network and directly to people who have said they are struggling to feed themselves.
Two people have been jailed - and two others fined - for breaching coronavirus restrictions after a supermarket theft in King's Lynn.
The four, all from Peterborough, were arrested after reports of shoplifting at the Sainsbury's store on the Hardwick Industrial Estate on Monday evening.
They admitted the offences and appeared at Norwich Magistrates' Court for sentencing via video link.
Image source, GoogleScarlett Harvey, 29, of Eastern Avenue was found guilty of theft, drug possession and breaching movement restrictions and breaking a community order. She was jailed for 13 weeks.
Anton Oakley, 31, of Redmile Walk, was jailed for 14 weeks for a number of drug and driving offences.
Junior Modest, 46, of Crabtree, was found guilty of theft and breaching movement restrictions. He was fined £317 and given a community order.
Tanveer Bashir, 39, of Gladstone Street was also convicted of breaching movement restrictions and was fined a total of £317.
A Norfolk couple have spoken of how they have "fallen through the gaps" and are struggling to make ends meet during the coronavirus lockdown.
Self-employed roofer Ben Cuss and his wife Annie, from Wymondham, Norfolk, have seen their earnings plummet from £3,000 a month to less than £100 a week.
Their story will be familiar to countless households.
Mr Cuss is waiting to "sign on" for Universal Credit, while his wife, a care worker who is expecting the couple's first child, is on statutory sick pay during the lockdown.
"We weren't splashing out on niceties, just living comfortably with a little bit put by for a rainy day," Mr Cuss told the BBC.
"Everyone's in the same boat. It's hard."
The MP for Great Yarmouth, Brandon Lewis, has sent a rather sweet "get well" message to the Prime Minister as he recovers from coronavirus in hospital.
Image source, InstagramThe message was baked into biscuits by his wife, Justine.
"Mrs Lewis has been busy baking a get well soon message for the prime minister – along with colour and photography support from Miss Lewis," the MP wrote on Instagram.
"Get well soon boss."
Mr Lewis, Minister for Northern Ireland, previously baked the words "stay home, save lives" into a beef Wellington
How's this for a little key worker "mowtivation"?
Photographer Colin Reeve captured the letters, which were crafted into the front garden of a house in Marshland St James, Norfolk.
Image source, Colin ReeveA drive-through swab testing facility has opened at the Norwich Research Park to test NHS frontline staff for coronavirus.
Scientists from across the park are joining forces with the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital, external (NNUH) to help test for viral RNA, the material found in a virus that promotes its spread.
Frontline NHS staff in key roles, such as critical care workers, paramedics, emergency department staff, and primary care staff will be eligible for testing if they or a household contact develop symptoms of Covid-19.
It will mean staff can return to work more quickly by reducing isolation times.
Image source, NNUHSam Higginson, NNUH chief executive, said: "Quick and reliable testing is an essential part of the national effort to protect the NHS and save lives.
"The expectation is that staff in key clinical roles will be tested to support our staffing through the pandemic."
David Parfrey, executive chairman of Anglia Innovation Partnership LLP, which runs the research park, said: "For most of us, this is the biggest crisis we have faced in living memory.
"The combination of expertise and commitment shown by our colleagues right across the Park has underlined just how vital a resource this is to the national picture."
Here's a quick look at what's making the newspaper front pages in Norfolk this morning:
Zoe Applegate
BBC News
A cardiac nurse has told how she was moved to tears by a video of her young children performing a song they had written for her and her hospital colleagues.
Laura Aitken works at the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital and tweeted the video to colleagues to lift their spirits.
Alice, seven, and five-year-old Jack wrote new lyrics to A Million Dreams from The Greatest Showman film, with their dad Chris, who accompanies them on guitar.
Signing off with the lyrics "All we want is to grow up and be like you", Mrs Aitken said her children "see me going to work and they see that it's difficult at the moment".
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Emergency services were called to a fire at the property in Downham Market, Norfolk.
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Katy Lewis
BBC News Online
Police in Norwich have said there were "too many" reports of breaches of the coronavirus restrictions on Tuesday night.
Officers were called to a barbecue with more than 10 people in attendance, sunbathers in Chapelfield Park and people playing football in school grounds.
"Please #ProtecttheNHS and do your part," the force said in a tweet.
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How online listening parties at home, with The Charlatans singer, became the new going out.
Read MoreMartin and Kate Thacker, their daughters Shannon and Phoebe, two dogs and cat are living in a van.
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BBC News
A high school is trying to help to keep NHS staff safe on the frontline of the crisis.
Hethersett Academy's technology department has been using 3D printers to make protective face shields, following concerns about shortages.
Textile students at the school near Norwich have also joined in, making washable fabric bags to help hospital employees take their scrubs to and from work safely.
Kate Finlay, head of the design and technology department, said: "Before the schools closed, online there was a lot of talk about helping with personal protective equipment - a lot of other European countries have done it and they made the drawings available, so we’ve been using an approved face shield drawing."
Ms Finlay added there was information on Norfolk Scrubs Volunteers, external if anyone wanted to make scrubs or the bags which can then be picked up from makers’ homes.
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BBC News
The annual 10km Run Norwich, external race, postponed because of the coronavirus crisis, has been rescheduled to Sunday, 18 October.
Runners of all abilities and ages take part in what is hailed as "the largest and most critical" of the fundraising events run by Norwich City's Community Sports Foundation, external.
Image source, Run Norwich"The money raised annually from Run Norwich helps us to continue our vital work in the community for people with disabilities and people from disadvantaged backgrounds," the foundation's website says.
"This work will become even more important in the coming months as our community relies on our support to bounce back during this difficult time.
"In addition, we have partnered with 12 other local causes, external this year to provide them with fundraising places in Run Norwich; each of these causes are under similar pressure to sustain their services for the groups that they support."
The race takes runners past some of the city’s most attractive landmarks, including Norwich Castle, The Forum, Norwich Cathedral, Norwich City Football Club, and many more.
Zoe Applegate
BBC News
The editor of a local newspaper has appealed for people to take out subscriptions or donate to keep it going as sales and advertising income plummets.
Image source, Stephen Richards/GeographDavid Powles said although the Eastern Daily Press, external has plenty of readers, things were "tough" due to businesses closing and cutting their advertising.
He paid tribute to about 60-70 of its journalists now working from home who have kept the paper coming out every day.
"We are more important than ever before - people still want the news, they want it more - so we had to work out a way how we could do that safely where none of us had to be in the office," he said.
"The big challenge has been around commercial and advertising… that’s been the area that has been pretty dire and we have seen a big drop.
"Still people are supporting us and they deserve our thanks and credit."
Pete Cooper
BBC News
Technicians at the University of East Anglia in Norwich have been using materials from local brewers to produce hand sanitiser to help the NHS and local councils
Many distilleries have switched from making spirits, such as gin, to hand sanitiser and brewer BrewDog has also been making alcohol gel in its Aberdeenshire factory, external.
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BBC News
More than 400 people have been recruited to the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital in the wake of coronavirus, its medical director said.
Image source, NNUHProf Erika Denton said some of them had come out of retirement, while student doctors on the verge of qualifying have joined early.
Student nurses, pharmacists and physiotherapists have also started working at the hospital ahead of schedule.
Prof Denton said the day procedure unit was being converted into an emergency department for those with confirmed or suspected Covid-19.
A new 10-bed isolation unit and 25 high-dependency beds were also being set up as part of a £9m extra NHS investment, she said.
She added the nearby private Spire hospital would be doing "much of our NHS elective surgical work" to ensure some operations still went ahead and to keep those patients totally isolated from any others with Covid-19.
The hospital currently has 85 coronavirus patients and a further 50 awaiting test results.
BBC Radio Norfolk has been answering your questions on the coronavirus outbreak.
Patrick Byrne
BBC News
Image source, Getty ImagesCounty lines drug-dealers are continuing to try to operate despite the coronavirus lockdown measures.
Norfolk Police reports several arrests of pushers as it tries to enforce the new "stay at home" rules for dealing with the coronavirus pandemic.
Deputy Chief Constable Paul Sanford said: "We continue to adapt to the ever-evolving legislation and the challenges we face in response to coronavirus and we are still committed to frontline policing and protecting our communities from the crimes that matter the most."