Life before lockdown - in photos
BBC Radio 5 Live
Debi McCormack met her brother and sister that she’d only discovered existed just before the first lockdown
To mark one year since the UK’s first lockdown, BBC Radio 5 Live and BBC Breakfast are asking people to share their photos and memories of pre-pandemic life, using #LifeBeforeLockdown.
5 Live presenter Adrian Chiles says he was secretly pleased about cancelling his birthday party on 21 March 2020 – because he is “generally stressed at parties”.
“I thought I ought to look a bit sad,” he says of his photo. He put a candle in the fruitcake made by his mother-in-law and sent her the picture. “She seemed chuffed with that”.
Debi McCormack, from Cheltenham, met her brother and sister she’d only discovered existed shortly before lockdown on 18 March. Her photo is of this “amazing” meeting.
Although they got to know each other more over Zoom, they are now “desperate” to meet again. “I’m so pleased we managed to get that one meeting in,” she says.
In May last year we asked you what your last “normal” photo was, here is what people shared.
No plans to put all of Europe on travel 'red list'
Health Secretary Matt Hancock says there are currently no plans to put all of Europe on the travel "red list" amid a third wave of cases seen in countries such as France and Italy.As a month-long lockdown returned to several French regions, including Paris, health minister Lord Bethell raised the prospect of having to "red-list all of our European neighbours".
Mr Hancock tells LBC: "We don't have any plans to do that. "We do have this red list and the amber list, and at the moment that is working well, so we don't have plans to do that."
People from "red list" countries are currently not allowed to travel to the UK, with the exception of British nationals and people who are normally resident in the UK - but those two groups must pay to quarantine in a hotel if they do choose to come at the moment.
Here's our guide to testing, quarantine and the red list.
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