Robert Buckland says government would have been criticised if target had been unambitious, while Boris Johnson will take daily briefing later
9.14am BST
Good morning. I’m Andrew Sparrow, taking over from Simon Murphy.
On the Today programme this morning Lord Burnett, the lord chief justice, said he would support reducing the number of jurors needed for a trial to allow the courts to continue in the era of social distancing.
There is blue-sky thinking going on at the moment. It is going to be necessary to look at more radical measures to enable jury trials to continue.
I would support a move in those circumstances to reduce the number of jurors needed for a trial. Plainly it would be easier to ensure a safe trial for everybody with social distancing and other precautions if the number of people involved in a trial was reduced by a few.
The use of big venues, all of this I can assure you is already being thought about.
You can’t have juries sitting together cheek by jowl, you can’t have them expectorating towards each other in a tiny jury box.
9.02am BST
Aged 108, she is the UK’s oldest known victim of coronavirus after surviving the Spanish flu outbreak nearly a century ago – but the care home where Hilda Churchill died does not want her to be forgotten.
Kenyon Lodge, in Salford, Greater Manchester, is appealing to the community to help build a memorial garden to celebrate the home’s “angels”, including those who have died during the pandemic.
We want to celebrate the lives of our angels, pay our respects and say our goodbye with their loved ones by our sides. We decided to create a memorial garden in the grounds of their home. We have been given so many generous donations already at the home and we are very grateful for the kindness shown.
We want to give our angels the best they deserve, with a lovely place to go to, spend time to reflect and share our happy memories, we will always remember them, they are our Kenyon Lodge Angels.”
