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• Clap for Carers: UK applauds the NHS and other key workers

  People clapped, banged pots and pans, and played the bagpipes to honour key workers battling the virus.

• NRL and players open to island proposal to get season restarted

  Players’ union ‘willing to explore all options’ Idea ‘not off the table’, says Todd Greenberg The NRL players’ union have revealed they are...

• Coronavirus: Family unable to attend 13-year-old boy's funeral

  The mother and six siblings are self-isolating after two of them began displaying Covid-19 symptoms.

• Homeless woman who coughed in police officer's face during burglary jailed

  Amber Laing, 21, coughed in a police officer's face after she was caught breaking into a cake shop in Royston, near Barnsley, South Yorkshire,...

• Coronavirus took hold 'earlier than thought' in UK with first death in February

  The first coronavirus death in the UK was made public on March 5, although the patient actually died on February 28, almost a week before it was...

• Russia's youngest coronavirus victim, 36, blogged grim 8-day descent to death

  Business editor Anastasia Petrova first noticed she had a fever at her home in Perm, Russia on March 23 and blogged about her struggle with...

• Coronavirus patient air-lifted out of flat window by firefighters in masks

  An isolated patient, who was feared to have been infected with coronavirus, was lifted from a second floor window by firefighters in air filtering...

• NBA hopeful LaMelo Ball reportedly buys Australian pro team he played for

  Ball, 18, has reportedly bought the NBL’s Illawarra Hawks Brother of Lonzo Ball is potential No 1 pick in NBA draft Potential No 1 draft pick...

• New England Patriots deploy team plane to fly N95 masks in from China

  NFL team uses private plane to fly 1.2m masks in from China Team says 300,000 of the masks will be going to New York Massachusetts governor...

• Talking Horses: roll up for our answer to the Grand National mystery

  What would have happened at Aintree on Saturday if the great race had gone ahead? We’ll give an answer at 3pm... It’s a tricky beast, this...