MIKE DICKSON: Holed up in her London flat, the usually globetrotting Jo Konta is clinging to the distant hope that Wimbledon might be saved from the cull of major summer sporting events.

Wimbledon chiefs have no plans to try to move this year's tournament back into the now vacant Olympics slot - despite it offering two more weeks for the coronavirus crisis to lift.

The likelihood of Wimbledon being called off for this year was ramped up on Wednesday night after the All England Club revealed it was calling an emergency board meeting next week.

FA bosses are ready to offer the use of Wembley Stadium in the fight against the coronavirus pandemic.

The tournament will be cancelled for the first time since the Second World War, with options such as playing the event behind closed doors and postponement not viewed as feasible.

We've already seen coronavirus decimate the sporting calendar, with Euro 2020 and the Tokyo Olympics among dozens of events either postponed or cancelled. So what will be the next event to fall?

The coronavirus pandemic spreading across the globe has put paid to many sporting events, and The Championships are the next to fall, with the UK death toll currently standing at 2,352.

GUY ADAMS: The crazy cross-section of actors, pop stars, politicians and toffs who score an invitation to the Royal Box says much about the vagaries of modern Britain.

The R&A moved swiftly on Thursday to knock down a report from America that the Open would suffer the same fate as Wimbledon and be cancelled.

The All England Club's insurance policy, in the region of £1.5m-a-year, was updated in 2003 after organisers asked for a virus-related clause inserted following concerns over the SARS outbreak.

According to UK-based expert Helena Mead at Christy England, who supply the towels to Wimbledon and the Royal family, people should be washing their bedding every week.

With the UK adapting to a sixth week of lockdown in the fight against coronavirus COVID-19, Boris, 52, was in surprisingly high spirits as he practiced his swing.

The dreadlocked German of partly Jamaican heritage will, however, be back in the limelight today when he plays in what constitutes as western Europe's first professional sports event in 37 days.

Beth Robinson, 31, from Scunthorpe believes the scan-as-you-go machine she was using didn't pick up a handful of items in her shopping - some of which cost as little as 70p.

Next month Asda will eliminate single-use carrier bags from its online operations, becoming the first UK supermarket to do so. The move will save 85 million plastic bags every year.

Emergency services were called to the supermarket in Peterhead, Scotland, at 12.30pm today to help an the injured workman who is believed to have fallen while working on the store's new extension.

The incident is believed to have happened at a supermarket in Dagenham, east London and was shared by thousands of people online today.

The radio host posted the video of the dangerous stunt on Twitter, showing a youth weaving through slow moving traffic on his back wheel on busy Cromwell Road in Kensington, West London.

Grant West, 26, (pictured) sent emails from the mobile home in Sheerness, Kent, pretending to come from 'Just Eat' to trick users into handing over their personal data.

The controversial concoction - produced by Pickering's Gin, based in Edinburgh, Scotland - is bound to divide opinion among gin lovers.

Nearly 20 types of houmous from stores including Sainsbury's Morrisons, Aldi, Lidl and Asda are part of the recall by the UK Food Standards Agency.

The footage was recorded by an onlooker in the car park of an Asda store in Glasgow. In the video, two men can be seen grappling with each other next to a parked car.

Describing itself as 'a Great British institution', the Twitter account Escaped Trolley shares images of dumped shoppers around the country and turns them into works of art.

Habeel Khan, 26, had been on his normal delivery rounds when he saw smoke coming from a house near Stapleford, Nottinghamshire.

The Labour leader accused Asda - along with Amazon, Sports Direct, Uber and the outsourcing giant ISS - of having 'ripped off and dehumanised' their staff.

Asda is to start selling avocados using plant-based Apeel coating in the New Year. Apeel is made from natural plant-derived materials and water, making it vegan and harmless to eat.

Josh Westgarth, 18, was waiting for his friends inside an Asda supermarket on the Kingsway in Dundee when he tried to trick the shopper using a mobility scooter's horn.

Footage shows a 'Spiderman' shoplifting suspect climbing into rafters at an Asda store in George Street, Wallsall, yesterday. An 18-year-old man was later arrested and remains in custody.

TOBY YOUNG: It is bad enough that any of these things could happen in a country that prides itself on the right to free speech, but in today's Britain such episodes are frighteningly common.

A DIY wiz, from Glossop, Derbyshire, shared her amazing floor-to-ceiling bathroom makeover to the Facebook group DIY On A Budget UK, after completing it for just £250.

Findus-style beef and onion crispy pancakes will be available in supermarket freezers in the UK from 25 February, after Birds Eye developed a new recipe for the classic treat.

Analysis suggests the cheapest unleaded petrol is found at a Costco warehouse in Manchester - at 115.7p per litre. The most expensive is at a motorway service station on the M4 in West London.

Stockpiling of household goods means that many aisles in Tesco, Sainsbury's, Morrisons, Asda, Lidl and Aldi up and down the UK are looking increasingly desolate.

Shops including Tesco, Asda, Sainsbury's, Morrisons and Waitrose are looking increasingly desolate as people begin stockpiling household goods.

Shocking footage has emerged of checkouts being flooded by frantic stockpilers with trolleys piled high with toilet rolls at a Costco in Chingford, London, amid coronavirus panic.

Pictures from one Asda store in London showed aisles that had been stripped of toilet roll after the Department of Health and Social Care this afternoon confirmed there were 273 positive cases.

Mark Mattocks shared a video of a woman dressed as a Star Wars soldier, pictured, at his local store in Sittingbourne, Kent - which has now been viewed more than 1.3 million times.

The nation's supermarkets will now be allowed to help each other keep their shelves stocked as the government has temporarily relaxed competition laws.

Staple vegetables such as potatoes, carrots, onions and cabbage - which have vanished from the shelves of Sainsbury's and Asda - were on display at Harrods, but at vastly inflated prices.

Tesco and Sainsbury's are limiting customers to only buying three or any grocery item, while Asda and Morrisons are restricting purchases across 1,250 regularly-bought lines.

Shoppers were pictured squeezing together at supermarkets up and down the country this morning, ignoring social distancing rules from the government amid the coronavirus outbreak.

Emma Tootill, 28, from Manchester, has revealed how she transformed a former storage room into a dreamy space to get ready - all for just £115.

The women were seen at an Asda in Roehampton having an argument with security guards. One tries to escort the daughter from the store and her mother pretends to faint and falls to the floor.

Sainsbury's, Tesco, Morrisons and Asda have all been allocating special shopping hours for people who are vulnerable of catching coronavirus or those buying supplies on their behalf.

The Daily Mail's Guy Adams reviews the state of the food industry in light of the panic buying which severely impacted markets and the cost benefit of farming. Meat, dairy and fruit has been affected.

A man was wrestled to the ground at the Asda Superstore in Greenhithe, Kent after he allegedly coughed on staff and said he had coronavirus. Police arrested him on April 7 and he has been charged.

Manchester United striker Marcus Rashford has revealed that his charity work has raised £20million for vulnerable children in Manchester.

The supermarkets chains are asking shoppers to only touch what they plan to buy or use in 'no touch' policy aimed at limiting the spread of coronavirus and protecting staff and customers.

People from across the world have taken to Instagram with creative snaps of outfits they've made using shopping bags as part of a new viral challenge.

Thousands of firms are finding it near-impossible to access cash under the Government's vital Coronavirus Business Interruption Loans Scheme (CBILS).