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18 April 2020

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News imageRiley, 8 and Harley 5 home schooling in Riverside

How to homeschool in a language you don't speak

Parents attempt to help Welsh-speaking children hold on to their language skills during lockdown.

News imagerobots at laptops

Will Covid-19 accelerate the use of robots at work?

Robot workers can help us keep social distance but once machines take over it will be hard to go back.

News imagePhotograph from the series Field, 2020

The view from my window

Jemima Yong's pictures record the comings and goings on a patch of land outside her London home.

News imageCarer

Hospices to get £6.3m extra help

Hospices are in danger of insolvency without extra help, ministers warn.

News imageThe Williams family

Family's 'frustration' over virus shielding letter

Eight-year-old Macsen has a rare genetic disorder which causes epilepsy and similar symptoms to cerebral palsy.

News imageCaroline Buckle with horse

Stables owner's fight to survive lockdown

The owner of an Edinburgh horse riding business says the lockdown is having a "horrendous" impact.

News imageSmoke fills the air in grainy image with first responders arriving

The day terror came to Oklahoma

Twenty-five years ago, on 19 April, a deadly bomb attack shook America and left 168 people dead.

News imageRoss says life in lockdown with a disability is especially hard

'Lockdown made me vulnerable and angry'

Ross, who is visually-impaired and has mobility issues, says he has found lockdown very hard.

News imageMomus

The indie veteran inspired by Covid-19

Singer-songwriter Momus has nearly completed an album written during, and about, the Covid-19 lockdown.

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