in northamptonshire, a temporary mortuary in northamptonshire a temporary mortuary has opened capablehree hundred bodies, but the authorities are looking for space for another nine hundred. helen mulroy has more. the stark reality of the coronavirus pandemic. with the increase of death across the country, temporary mortuaries are being created out of necessity. locally, we know we have the capacity of around 230 spaces to store deceased bodies across the hospitals in northampton and so we are seeing around 100% increase in terms of the recorded deaths over the last week or so and we have to see this facility and placed a mixture of the capacity to treat people in the most dignified way as he moved through this process. undertakers and funeral homes are under immense pressure at this time. for them, facilities like these are key to ensure that they can offer people and their families the dignified sendoff is that they deserve. it has been very difficult. i think the good thing that this facility is going to bring us is that we're going to be able to offer those vital services that we d

the cpap devices have been manufactured by mercedes formula one in northamptonshire — quite a contrastve just finished an order of 10,000 of them for the nhs. it was done in partnership with engineers at university college london, who modified and improved an existing design. the manufacturing process has been made freely available. as a consortium, we're really dedicated to supporting the global efforts around covid, and in response to that, we released all the designs and manufacturing processes for the device at zero cost. since then, we've approved over 1300 downloads of these designs, and that's across 25 countries. the more of these devices that are made available, the less pressure there'll be on ventilators — a limited resource, which are needed for the most severely ill patients. all the medical staff on intensive care at royal surrey must wear full protective clothing because of the danger of infection. they know all too well the threat posed by coronavirus. so, you can see clearly the difference between the normal ct scan here and this ct scan with covid pneumonia. in the si

the cpap devices have been manufactured by mercedes formula one in northamptonshire — quite a contrasttor racing. they've just finished an order of 10,000 of them for the nhs. it was done in partnership with engineers at university college london, who modified and improved an existing design. the manufacturing process has been made freely available. as a consortium, we're really dedicated to supporting the global efforts around covid, and in response to that we released all the designs and manufacturing processes for the device at zero cost. since then, we've approved over 1300 downloads of these designs, and that's across 25 countries. the more of these devices that are made available, the less pressure there'll be on ventilators — a limited resource which are needed for the most severely ill patients. all the medical staff on intensive care at royal surrey must wear full protective clothing because of the danger of infection. they know all too well the threat posed by coronavirus. so you can see clearly the difference between the normal ct scan here and this ct scan with common pneum

back to the subject of testing, we are hearing from northamptonshire hospitals in northamptonshire theyf nhs front line staff, have been sent abroad for testing. this is northampton general and kettering general hospital who say they have a long—standing arrangement with a lab in germany and as they pitted it made sense to send the samples because scientists there have the capacity to test quickly. they have added doing this eases pressure on british facilities. quite striking that two hospitals are seeing they are sending staff test results over to germany to get quick results. they make the point it is a long—standing arrangement we have with our lab long—standing arrangement we have with ourlab —— long—standing arrangement we have with our lab —— with a lab in question. perhaps more to come on that over the rest of the afternoon. the exams regulator has announced how gcses and a—levels will be awarded in england. students will receive grades based on teachers' assessment of their work. earlier i spoke to our education editor branwenjeffreys. there is a two—stage process. the first in

this cpap device have been manufactured by mercedes formula 1 in northamptonshire, quite a contrast toone in partnership with engineers at university college london who modified and improved an existing design. the manufacturing process has been made freely available. as a consortium we are dedicated to supporting the global efforts around covid and in response to that we release the designs and manufacturing processes for their design at zero cost and we have approved of 1300 downloads of the designs and that's across 25 countries. the more of the device is made available the less pressure they will be on ventilators, a limited resource which are needed for the most severely ill patients. all the medical staff on intensive care at royal surrey must wear protective clothing because of the danger of infection. they know all too well the threat posed by coronavirus. so you can see clearly the difference between the normal ct scan and the ct scan with pneumonia. in the sickest patients coronavirus causes severe pneumonia. all it tells us is the lung tissue is damaged. and the damage is as

we just open northamptonshire police saying they will start crackdown and be more strict.re active in their management of obvious holiday traffic. they will be looking for people going into the resorts. we have closed all the beach car park several weeks ago. the public toilets are closed because there was a risk of cross infection in those. if you do come down, there nowhere to go except the house, so you may as well stay in the house you are living in now. my i notice not a message to say easily, because it is a big cost or diving. we thank you for coming on none the less. —— a big cost for devon. a man who fled the war in syria apply to become a cleaner in the uk. he made a document to british journey to the uk and it won a ba fta. journey to the uk and it won a bafta. now he is disinfecting covid—19 wars. he cited this as way of giving back to britain.” covid—19 wars. he cited this as way of giving back to britain. i was very nervous when i apply for the job, because i heard the news of a shortage of ppe, nurses and doctors getting ill. and some of them are dying but t

and here‘s mollie — aged seven months — enjoying her first easter in weedon, northamptonshire.ag bbcbreakfast it's it‘s now five to nine. we‘ve enlisted diana moran, better known as "the green goddess", to help us all stay active while we‘re staying indoors. here she is to kick—start your week with another gentle routine. good morning, everybody, another week of these extraordinary times. now, how are your knees today? an awful lot of people complain about their knees, especially as they get a little bit older, or maybe they‘ve been doing a lot of sport, perhaps overdoing it. so just some simple little exercises today to help the supporting muscles, the muscles that support the knee. sojust sitting nice and comfortably, perhaps to the front of your chair a little bit, just lift your leg, using that quadriceps muscle which, i said before, is a really important muscle to keep us mobile as the years go on. i have put my toes up towards me and i am holding that for ten seconds. that‘s good. let‘s just do the other one. straighten out the leg. very simple, today. pull up the toes an

let's speak now to trudy and chloe from rushden in northamptonshire, and lisa and sienna from greaterarea, for a training exercise, so i asked them to come and doa exercise, so i asked them to come and do a convoy down the street. i wasn't expecting them to actually turn up with anything they came. i thought i was just getting one or two police cars. but they turned up in their numbers. there you can see the fire engines there as well. hgppy the fire engines there as well. happy birthday, chloe! across the side of the bands. how did that make you feel, chloe? i was terrified! did you think you had done something wrong? yeah, that what i was thinking. i nearly ran inside, i was that scared! well, add a special birthday for you. add a special one for cnr as well. happy birthday to your daughter! yes, her birthday was at the end of march and the lockdown had just happened, so the week before i nipped to the shops and got something for her, but on her actual birthday party was cancelled and all of the celebrations and she is only six, so we have got quite an active and very sociable stree

so the chief constable of northamptonshire last week said his officers might be looking in shopping trolleysy items. and finally, coming on to something that hasn't really been touched upon. these new guidelines by saying that if someone has a row in the home that they are staying m, in the home that they are staying in, it's ok for them to go and spend several days, a cooling off period, with friends at another address. that is all right. that is reasonable to do that under these guidelines to police. very interesting, that. how you would enforce that, that's another matter. if someone is walking along the street, they are stopped by police to ask where they are going and they say they are going to a friends house because they've had a row at home, could the police enforce that? how will they find that out? it's an interesting conundrum. yes! that is quite something, isn't it? anyway, we will discuss that another time, sadly. i wish we could discuss it now. thank you very much, danny shaw, our home affairs correspondent who has been looking at that guidance. let's talk about trying to keep