On Tuesday's edition of The One Show, the presenter, 43, broke down in tears as actor Christopher, 56. read out a heartfelt poem in support of the NHS amid the coronavirus pandemic.

John le Carré  also claimed the UK's death toll was a result of 'running down of the NHS.' Le Carré, 88, is in lockdown at his Cornish home where he is writing a new book.

The painting will remain at Southampton General Hospital until the autumn when it will be auctioned to raise money for the NHS. The mysterious artist added a note, thanking health care staff.

The Britain's Got Talent judge, 49, revealed that her daughter had made 'Somewhere Over The Rainbow' cupcakes to honour her new charity single to raise funds for the NHS.

Letters were sent to 2.16million Britons advising them to 'shield' themselves. But it has since emerged around five per cent were incorrectly included.

Julie Burchill and Silkie Carlo debate if the public should embrace the virus-track-and-trace phone app, which may be rolled out across the country if tests on the Isle of Wight go well.

The shipment was announced by Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick on April 18, with the minster claiming that 84 tonnes of PPE would arrive from Turkey the next day.

Health bosses today slammed the government for 'breaking promises' to frontline workers over the supply of PPE after it emerged a shipment of 400,000 gowns from Turkey is useless.

The Lord Of The Rings star, 56, took to Twitter on Thursday to reveal his plans for the 'hobbitathon' on May 8, which will see him read the classic from start to finish with no breaks for 12 hours.

North West Ambulance Service issued a statement saying that the coronavirus-related video breached their social media policy after racking up thousands of views online.

Planners of the famous event, held each year in the streets of Notting Hill in London, say the decision has been taken to cancel this year's event due to the Covid-19 outbreak.

Swindon Borough Council has come under fire after it took to social media to reveal that its Highways Team had painted a 'thank you' message to NHS staff amid the coronavirus pandemic.

Greater Manchester Police said they are hunting for the perpetrators , in what they described as a 'particularly sickening crime' given the coronavirus pandemic.

Fourteen staff at Oxfordshire-based Allertons volunteered to manufacture scrubs - sanitary clothing worn by medical professionals - and are producing around 100 garments per week.

SEBASTIAN SHAKESPEARE: Fergie, who has just launched her own YouTube channel, 'Storytime With Fergie And Friends', declines to comment on the company's affairs.

RICHARD LITTLEJOHN: Let's hear it for White Van Man. And Black Van Man, and every other shade of van man and woman. Where the hell would we have been without them over the past few weeks?

Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab tonight described the growing number of COVID-19 fatalities as 'tragic'. He revealed 5,600 more Britons had tested positive for the deadly virus.

New Labour leader Keir Starmer sparked a row on Twitter after asking the media 'have you got everything you need' at the end of the 8pm 'clap for our carers'.

BAME staff working on the front lines of the NHS should ask to move if they feel endangered, the chief executive of the Royal College of Nursing has said. It comes after a popular pharmacist died last month.

Millions of pieces of vital personal protective equipment in the UK's national pandemic stockpile were out of date when the coronavirus hit, an investigation has revealed.

Clap for Carers is now in its seventh week, with Britons up and down the country stepping onto their doorsteps, balconies and front gardens to applaud frontline workers at 8pm tonight.

Stars were seen joining the nation outside their home for the weekly applause which has rang out across the country each Thursday for the last seven weeks.

Elderly, obese and black people are also substantially more likely to fall victim to the illness, according to the NHS England analysis of 17.4million patient records.

The original Nursing and Midwifery Council [NMC] tribunal heard Stacey Worsley gambled the money - meant for Toby Nye's neuroblastoma treatment - over a 15-month period.

Dr Gyorgy Rakoczy, pictured, has been allowed to resume practice despite having problems with English which led him to inject a four-year-old child with a potentially fatal dose of  carbolic acid.

The couple dressed up as they joined the nation in the 8pm clap for carers on Thursday.

Although all general aviation remains out of bounds during the pandemic, the Daily Mail was granted an exemption by Transport Secretary Grant Shapps to see spitfires take to the skies.

Brits joined together on Friday night to sing Dame Vera Lynn's We'll Meet Again. Voices rang out up and down the country to mark 75 years since the end of the Second World War in Europe.

The-35-year-old, described her 'proudest moment' as making a birthday cake for Colonel Tom Moore who turned 100 on 30 April.

Environment Secretary George Eustice revealed the figures, which include fatalities in all settings, at tonight's Downing Street press briefing.

Lawyers have warned the lack of PPE for NHS and care workers could result in corporate manslaughter charges as 54 Covid-19 healthcare deaths were reported to the Health and Safety Executive.

These Fossil watches are about the best Android Wear watches out there, and they work well (you swipe up, sideways and down to open alerts, see your calendar or see fitness data)

What could be more undignified than donning unflatteringly tight gym wear and cycling in a frenzy on an exercise bike? Answer: doing the same, but wearing a virtual reality headset

The clue is in the name: there's a big LED clock on the side. But if you set a timer, you get a glowing countdown on the side, which means you no longer have to keep pestering the gizmo

They're less bulky than over-ear headphones, and offer noise-cancelling and Bluetooth without making you look like one of Doctor Who's cyborg foes

The Ruark 5 is a wireless streamer, but it also packs a CD player and FM radio. That it looks absolutely gorgeous doesn't hurt, with a wooden surround and a strokeable cloth face plate

Event's tech expert Rob Waugh rounds up the best new gadgets on the market. Looking for that last minute gift? Our man has you covered

The Roborock is simple to set up, unlike a lot of rivals, and trundles off to clean any flat space, without fear of it plunging to its doom down the stairs

If you are thinking of subjecting the world to half an hour of your opinions on, say, Mongolian throat singing, the Rodecaster Pro does a fairly passable impression of an actual radio studio

Google's Pixelbook Go is a Chromebook (basically running a browser, but with a few additional apps). I realised that it can actually do pretty much anything from word processing to website editing

'You look like a Teletubby!' These are words no man wants to hear. I suppose at least they didn't say I looked like the one with the handbag. I'll admit that Grado's headphones are on the large side

A fan said their family was 'a beautiful example of the love of Christ' and she loves seeing Josh back in photos, prompting a grateful reply from Anna, 30.

The Florida-born Anna referenced the family's faith in surviving the bad times in her union with the Tontitown, Arkansas native: 'Through it all, God's kindness and grace has sustained us.'

Josh Duggar and his very pregnant wife Anna were spotted along with their five children in Los Angeles on Tuesday after taking a road trip in their RV from their home in Tontitown, Arkansas.

Duggar, who rose to fame with his family on their TLC show but resigned after admitting that he molested four of his sisters when they were all underage, works at a car dealership in Arkansas.

Friday's Celebrity Masterchef was the best of the three the week as always, and not just because it took only half an hour.

The Great British Bake Off may be younger and groovier these days, having rid itself of no-nonsense Yorkshiremen, lovely old ladies, and anyone with 'a proper job.'

The bookies' favourite to win The Great British Bake Off, Steph Blackwell, narrowly failed to make history and become Star Baker for a remarkable four weeks running.

JIM SHELLEY: Vicky Pattison and Neil Ruddock had more chance of beating Greg Rutherford at long jump than they did of defeating him in the kitchen tonight.

After nine years and ten series, even the best contestants on The Great British Bake Off still had no answer to their nemesis, the show's famous, merciless, adversary.