sarah corker, bbc news, in morecambe.ggling with home learning, sharing one device, her smartphone. that's the only device i've got. well, we've been inundated with offers, many of you have been donating your own devices — to help with home—schooling — that you're not currently using. paul had five new—ish computers just gathering dust. i've got these pcs, five pcs, from a call centre that we shut down, and why not give them? so we brought them to the school's it hub. so in 35 years of being in education, i have never seen this kind of generosity. any kit we get that's probably less than five years old, we'll clean, we'll make sure that it's almost factory reset but with none of your personal data on it, we then as a result we can then start to reconfigure it and get it ready for our kids to learn. and just around the corner, we meet seven of nick's pupils, all trying to do homework on one smartphone. but it's been hard, yeah? really hard. yeah. and when dad goes to work, he takes his phone with him. when my dad is at wor

a troupe of circus performers stranded in morecambe during the lockdown have said a big thank you tot please don't try this at home. these are professional circus folk and this is their home. they landed in morecambe days before the lockdown and had to abandon their show before it had even begun. when the lockdown happened, we couldn't move so we had to stay here. the performers were given the option of flying back home, but chose not to. yes, they chose to stay because they knew if they went back home, they d eftly knew if they went back home, they deftly would be performing for the rest of the year, that was 100%. there are no circuses in cuba or opportunities to perform. they love to perform, they asked to stay here and see what they could do. with a view like this, there are worst places you can spend the lockdown, however because the performers are not uk nationals are not eligible to state support, local people have come to the rescue. when we heard there was a circus troupe who needed help we were so glad to be able to give them a hand, really. this is an awful situation for a

siobhan collingwood is a primary school headteacher in morecambe bay.eady? well, good morning. yes, we are trying. we are starting to plan, but we are really gravely concerned about this as an issue. we take our job as teachers really, really seriously and we love it, we love the fact we help young people be the best versions of themselves as possible but the basic understanding of maslow‘s hierarchy of needs makes us understand that to reach those higher levels of personal development, you need to secure your own safety and health first of all. that has to be our number one priority and at the moment, it's not feeling like that is the priority. i've got two major concerns really that i'm trying to get my head around and believe you me, since the announcement on sunday, myself and many of my colleagues haven't had much sleep in trying to work out how we can do this safely. there are two huge barriers — the first is this whole issue of social distancing. the public health is still telling us that two metres is what we should be aiming for. well, if i wer

sarah corker, bbc news, in morecambe.has been about a% for quite a while now, that has come in for this period, where we look at january— march of this year, but is our 3.9%, so not a lot of change. but the office of national statistics has said maybe this might not be the one to look at if you're looking for the impact of the coronavirus crisis. there are other figures where they look at the number of weekly hours worked by people, and that has fallen sharply. it's the biggest fault for ten years. and that has been reflected by what we have seen in reality. people who are able to be furlough, put on that governments in where the government paid those people's wages were furloughed. so they weren't unemployed. and march going into april, that is the impact on weekly hours worked that we have seen. the big figures we have discussed before, this confirmed with official figures, the claiming counts. the claimants for universal credit, those searching for work as well, that has absolutely rocketed. asa well, that has absolute