It’s weird writing the news at the moment.

All reporters are working from home, with regular conference sessions held over video chat, complete with connection delays, but we get by.

If this happened during the pre internet age, I seriously don’t think a paper could get produced each day.

I think many people, particularly the younger generation, this will possibly be the first time they have had to think about their own mortality and how fragile life truly is.

Travelling around the city by car, it is like a ghost town and quite frankly it is upsetting.

Places should be full of people during the day, it’s just the way things are.

It's great to see a slow re-emergence of take aways getting back in business.

Five weeks of lockdown cannot be easy on any small business and people need food to keep up their morale during this long battle.

Many people have turned lockdown into a positive with fund raisers in the city like Toria Pickering (pictured) who smashed her target, with the help of family and friends, despite recovering from an operation, to provide a children's charity with financial support.

The V-Sprint Cycling club did not let isolation get in the way of riding as a group and raising money for Primrose Hospice, and used the power of the internet to go on a virtual ride together.

Little Lodge Nursery took on the challenge to raise as much money to support community key workers who have been putting themselves at risk for the greater good, raising around £1000.

I think when the pandemic ends - and it will end - society will be different and we will consider our neighbour more and more.

We are together in solidarity against a horrible entity which cannot be seen with the naked eye.

We need to fight our need to go out and stay at home as much as possible as I for one certainly do not want to be in this situation next year.

Use your time to learn a new language, take up a hobby or get writing that novel you keep promising yourself you will write but never have the time.

The time is now - do it!