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The Government pays 80% of wages of furloughed workers up to £2,500 a month and has seen a significant take-up.

The company said its off-trade business, which supplies shops and supermarkets, saw ‘strong’ sales in the build-up to the lockdown.

Take time to appreciate the joy of nature despite the constraints of the coronavirus restrictions.

Professor Robin Shattock added that his team at Imperial College is hoping to start human trials in June.

A study of NHS staff in Newcastle found infection rates were no different for staff in clinical or non-clinical roles.

Craig Cash and his nine-year-old daughter Olivia-Mae used around 100 balloons to make the model.

Conservation work and reintroductions have helped boost the UK’s tallest bird, which went extinct here in the 1600s.

The chain said sales of the kits have gone up by 25% since the measures were introduced at the end of March.

Sarah Burton, who was director of a Cambridge University creative writing course, got the idea for The Strange Adventures Of H a decade ago.

Derbyshire Fire and Rescue Service said at least three-quarters of Springfield Mill has been saved.

The hum of the generators on the warship is proving troublesome for some people.

The peri-peri chicken chain said seven of its city centre restaurants reopened their kitchens on Monday.

NHS staff have been drafted in to boost numbers in residential care settings.

Col Bignell, from Co Down, said he intends to raise money for the health service with his 26.2-mile run.

The estimate includes more than 10,000 in care homes.

Roads around the Dockside area in Chatham, Kent, were closed off as officers moved in.

The pandemic has cut the number of urgent referrals for screenings by 75%, Cancer Research UK said.