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Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden said the Government was also prepared to row back from easing restrictions if ‘things…get out of control’.

Molly Watts is a staff nurse on the paediatric intensive care unit at Southampton Children’s Hospital.

For the first time, this year’s VE Day will be marked at home and online.

Lily Barnett will walk the corridor of her home to support Help for Heroes.

The total number of coronavirus deaths in Northern Ireland is now 422.

General Sir Nick Carter, Chief of the Defence Staff, said marking the 75th anniversary would be ‘tough’ for veterans.

York’s National Railway Museum has published the set of 10 images covering scenic locations such as Cornwall and the Yorkshire coast.

Celebrations will be very different during the coronavirus lockdown.

Officers heard a noise ‘believed to be the sound of someone breaking wind from a nearby bush’.

Official data suggests more than 36,000 people have died with coronavirus in the UK.

Researchers said a vehicle-generated early warning system that alerts drivers is feasible within the next few years using 5G.

The creature belongs to an extinct group of reptiles known ichthyosaurs.

The monarch will speak to the nation on Friday to mark 75 years since VE Day.

Nightingale pioneered many of the practices carried out today, such as maintaining good hygiene and regularly washing hands

Officials will scrutinise the latest data on the spread of the disease, and ministers are expected to convene over the weekend.

Despite large-scale public events being unable to go ahead, tributes will be paid by members of the royal family, as well as a host of other events.

Le Temps newspaper says the chalet was bought in 2014.