The Daily Telegraph - 2020-05-08

• Starmer: We owe it to VE Day generation to protect them from virus in care homes
• Escalation in ‘R’ rate blamed on epidemic inside care homes
• Dominic Raab – the baseball bat used for taking the top off an egg
• Drop in number of tests caused by ‘technical hitch’ in laboratory
• 700 migrants freed from detention centres
• VE Day festivitie­s may be muted, but we’ll keep smiling through
• Hopes for a ‘Happy Monday’ dashed as PM urges cautious approach to lifting lockdown
• Jersey to permit gatherings of five in soft lockdown
• Cleaners sweep back into homes but must follow rules spotlessly
• New cycle lanes get riders back in the saddle
• Unmasked: the failed politician, economist and man of many faces
• Vitamin D boost from sunshine helps ward off virus, study finds
• Why social distancing in bedroom might be a good idea
• Drug dealers go in disguise as joggers
• Outbreak will reverse decade’s worth of gains for poorer countries, says Sage expert
• Contagion visits the church that ignored orders to close its doors
• Trafficker­s flee to sea routes as crisis disrupts drugs trade
• Brussels agreed to censor letter saying China was source of virus
• Social minefield for Belgians as they pick four lockdown buddies
• No lockdown, but Sweden’s death toll soars in care homes
• THE GOOD NEWS NHS HERO
• Brussels accuses the UK of having no ‘plan to succeed’ in its approach to Brexit talks
• Social worker arrested over alleged child grooming
• Andrew and Sarah sued for £6.7m over ski chalet
• Dyson forced to scrap plans to build waterfall on historic estate
• Jellyfish live through lean times by eating their young
• Leak at Indian chemical plant kills at least 11
• Criminal case dropped against former Trump aide who lied over contact with Russia
• If lockdown is to continue, we should be trusted to know the reasons why
• Whisper it, but millions are enjoying shutdown
• We must better support the VE Day generation during this crisis
• Blind optimism about the UK recovery won’t pay
• We must defend our freedom once more
• Looking back from these strange times to the end of the war in Europe
• Why the Victory Roll is in vogue again
• COULD YOU HELP TO FIND PENNY?
• A comforting Italian stalwart that is guaranteed to please
• I want lockdown lifted... but my husband doesn’t
• LETTERS FROM LOCKDOWN
• The cautionary tale of a cautious NHS volunteer
• From the BFG to Covid-19 war artist
• WREN’S CHURCHES.
• LINK WITH SHAKESPEAR­E.
• Wing Commander Donald Perrens
• Petty Officer Norman ‘Dickie’ Richardson
• Lieutenant-general Sir Anthony Pigott
• Lester Hudson
• This madcap comedy caper is endearing but exhausting
• ‘We have never seen a greater day than this’
• A victory with much to teach us about our present danger
• ‘I was there when the lights went on again’
• ‘We didn’t celebrate, there was more to come’
• A narrow escape at Buckingham Palace
• Seventy-five years on, we are still fighting over the war

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