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    Video caption: Coronavirus: 'We got through lockdown by dancing'

    One year on from the first UK lockdown, people across the East Midlands have been sharing their experiences of the pandemic.

  2. At the scene: Industrial site blaze in Sheffield

    This was the scene a little earlier as fire crews tackled a blaze at an industrial building in the Kelham Island area of Sheffield.

    Fire in Sheffield

    The building, on Club Mill Road, is used to manufacture parts for agricultural machines, according to South Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service.

    There were no reports of any injuries, a fire service spokesperson said.

  3. Covid-19: Past 12 months 'exhausting' for nurse

    BBC Midlands Today

    A critical care nurse who qualified a few months before the coronavirus pandemic began said the past year has been "absolutely exhausting".

    Holly Minshall

    Holly Minshall, 26, from Market Drayton, graduated from Keele University and went on to work at the Royal Stoke University Hospital throughout the pandemic.

    "I never ever thought that six months later after qualifying we would be thrown into a global pandemic with a virus that we knew nothing about and just expected to crack on and deal with it," she said.