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Industry body says online revenue has slumped 60% despite fears of a gambling surge. Via: Gambling firms pledge to halt TV and radio advertising during lockdown

Chief medical officer warns still a ‘very long way to go’ to defeat virus Via: NHS hospitals to restore elective treatments for cancer, heart disease and other conditions as experts suggest first coronavirus peak passing

Tally brings official fatalities total to 21,092 Via: UK coronavirus hospital death toll increases by 360 in lowest rise for nearly four weeks

Political terrain in UK seems to have opened up in wake of crisis Via: Public support universal basic income, job guarantee and rent controls to respond to coronavirus pandemic, poll finds

The preliminary figure – not yet confirmed by the Department of Health, which releases an official UK tally each day – would be the lowest daily death count since March 30. Via: Coronavirus UK: Death toll hits 20,735 with 350 new fatalities

The man held over the murders of two children has been named locally as their father Nithin Kumar, MailOnline can reveal. Via: One-year-old girl is killed, and two others hurt in horrific east London 'triple stabbing' 

Wynn Las Vegas has started taking reservations for Memorial Day weekend despite Nevada Gov Steve Sisolak having yet to announce when the state’s casinos and hotels will be allowed to reopen. Via: Wynn Las Vegas is taking reservations for Memorial Weekend

Good Morning Britain presenter Piers Morgan, who has appeared on The Apprentice alongside the president, slammed Donald Trump for lacking the ‘kind of leadership needed in a crisis’. Via: Piers Morgan wages war on Donald Trump and his coronavirus 'lies' as he clashes with CNN presenter

ESPN has issued an apology for a graphic used during the NFL Draft identifying Cincinnati Bengals draft pick Tee Higgins’s mother as someone who ‘fought drug addiction for 16 years.’ Via: ESPN apologizes for Tee Higgins graphic during NFL draft detailing mother's past drug addiction

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