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Health Secretary Matt Hancock has criticised sunbathers for breaking lockdown rules and warned the government will ban exercise if people continue to ignore the advice to stay home.

Plenty of people were out enjoying the sunshine on Saturday on the warmest weekend of the last six months - despite government pleas to stay home.

The UK is about to enter its third week in lockdown - but what will come next?

Another 708 people have died after testing positive for coronavirus in the UK, including a five year-old child who is the youngest victim to date.

The Queen, in an historic televised address, will say she hopes the coronavirus crisis will show that "Britons of this generation were as strong as any" as the country responds to the challenges it faces. 

Hackney's graffiti splashed shutters are down, except at Sainsbury's where a line is forming as each person dutifully stands two metres apart. Among them, Theresa Woolard and her daughter Daisy, faces covered in matching black masks.

The Foreign Office has said it is stepping up plans to help Britons stranded overseas by coronavirus travel restrictions to return to the UK.

Marianne Faithfull is being treated for COVID-19 in hospital, her agent has said.

Cutting top footballers' pay during the coronavirus outbreak could cost the government more than £200m in tax receipts, the Professional Footballers' Association has claimed.

Boris Johnson's fiancee Carrie Symonds, who is pregnant with the couple's first child, says she has spent the past week in bed with symptoms of coronavirus.