Don Your Way column: Bringing you all the coronavirus news...from the dinner table

Like many of you, and all my Free Press colleagues, the coronavirus clampdown has meant abandoning the office and setting up shop in the confines of our homes.

Work and daily life for all of us has been turned on its head these last few weeks.

Fortunately, the digital age means that even though I’m juggling all sorts at the moment, I can still bring you all the news in Doncaster as it happens – direct from the dinner table.

Quite how long I, or any of us will be stuck at home remains to be seen.

Journalists across the country are proud to have been named among the Government’s key workers. And while we could never pretend we have a job anywhere near as important as NHS staff, emergency service workers and delivery drivers and the like, we’re still here to keep you informed with everything that’s happening with the COVID-19 pandemic.

In more than 25 years as a journalist, I’ve covered all sorts of major stories – but this is a whole new ball game.

The wealth of information is immense and relentless in an ever changing situation. I’ve written stories these past few weeks which have been overtaken by events and needed updating within seconds of being posted online.

Mistakes will get made, conflicting info might mean we sometimes get it wrong. But we will still be out there (although not literally) trying to bring you all the coronavirus news – the bad bits, the good bits, the positive stories, as they pile in.

And we’ll also try and lift the gloom with some more light-hearted material too.

And that’s on top of everything else that’s going on in Doncaster as well

These are challenging and unprecedented times for us all and the only way to get through it is by all pulling together and working together.

Stay safe and think of others.

Now bear with me while I shift the salt and pepper to make way for my keyboard.