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Ant and Dec auction two of their NTAs to raise money for NHS

Taking to Instagram on Thursday, the duo, both, 44, announced they were inspired by Chris Evans' efforts to raise money for the NHS so planned to sell the gongs




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Andy Serkis reveals he will read The Hobbit live to raise money for charity

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.




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Coronavirus UK: NHS workers slammed over TikTok coffin dance

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.




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Council is accused of wasting taxpayers money by painting 'Thank you NHS' messages on roads

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.




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Thieves steal 80,000 protective facemasks intended for NHS and care home workers

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




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Racing colours manufacturer Allertons volunteers to supply scrubs for NHS workers

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




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Captain Tom recalls fighting on the front lines in Burma in WWII and memories of VE Day

The former British Army Officer from Yorkshire fought on a motorbike and survived giant spiders and dengue fever during the Allied campaign in Burma, the 'Forgotten War' against Imperial Japan in 1942-45.




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SEBASTIAN SHAKESPEARE: Why there's no encore for Fergie's West End venture 

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




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RICHARD LITTLEJOHN: What, more cycle lanes? On yer bike!

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?




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Coronavirus UK: Death toll with 30,615 with 539 new fatalities

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.




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Fury as Sir Keir Starmer asks 'have you got what you need' when applauding the NHS

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'.




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BAME NHS workers on Covid-19 frontline should ask ask to be moved says Dame Donna Kinnair

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.




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Two hundred MILLION pieces of PPE in the UK's stockpile were 'out of date' when coronavirus hit

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.




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Millions of Britons mark seventh weekly 'Clap for Carers' event

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.




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Men are TWICE as likely to die from coronavirus as women

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.




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Nurse who gambled away £100,000 raised for terminally-ill son allowed to work due to Covid crisis

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.




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Rangers midfielder Scott Arfield raises £9,500 for NHS after raffling off match worn shirt

Rangers midfielder Scott Arfield has helped raise £9,500 for the NHS charities. Arfield started a raffle to give away the match shirt he wore against Braga in February




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Hungarian doctor, 65, who failed English test six times, keeps his job

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.




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Rita Ora's mother Vera, 56, winds down with a yoga session in her garden

The doctor, 55, displayed her impressive technique with a downward dog pose as she stretched out on a bright pink mat.




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Johnny Vegas delivers food parcels to NHS staff and vulnerable residents of his hometown St Helens

The comedian, 49, has teamed up with local charities to ensure the needy residents are getting their essentials during the coronavirus lockdown.




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VE Day 75: UK sings along to Vera Lynn's 'We'll Meet Again'

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.




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Bake Off star Candice Brown reveals cake she made for Colonel Tom Moore's 100th birthday

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




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The Sex Clinic expert Sarah Mulindwa returns to the NHS frontline to help battle the COVID-19 crisis

The 34-year-old model, who is the star of Channel 4's The Sex Clinic, has put her career on hold to look after coronavirus patients.




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Coronavirus UK: Death toll tops 31,000 with hundreds of new fatalities

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




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Holly Willoughby auctions herself as lunch date after joining fundraising effort

The This Morning host, 39, took to Instagram on Friday to make the announcement to her followers.




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Lawyers warn lack of PPE could result in corporate manslaughter charges

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.




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Hour heroes! Smartwatches that don't make you like you have an electronic tag on your wrists

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)




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The new iPhone is a pleasant surprise but not quite a Revelation 

If you've been hanging on to an ancient, half-dead handset with the obligatory smashed screen, waiting for the 'right' iPhone to upgrade to, this £729 handset is a decent choice




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The VZ Fit will entertain you at the gym, but you will look even less flattering!

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




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The new Echo Dot With Clock is a massive leap forward

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




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ROB WAUGH: The new Bower & Wilkins headphones are 'pleasingly cosy'

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




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Google's new Nest system is an upgrade of its three-year-old wi-fi system

There's really not much lower you can sink as a human being once you've found yourself excited by a wi-fi router. But that's the tragic situation I find myself in




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ROB WAUGH: Pleasingly rounded sounds from the Orbitsound Airsound One

Occasionally tech firms come up with a buzzword so surreal that you surreptitiously Google it just to make sure they're not taking the mickey




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The Roborock S6 is exactly what robot vacuum cleaners should have been all along 

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




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Rob Waugh reviews Amazon's Echo Studio

Echo Studio is Amazon's latest attempt at a 'hi-fi' Echo device, and it's certainly a burly piece of kit




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Rob Waugh reviews the Rayvolt Cruzer V3  

I'm mature enough to admit that, sometimes, the whole point of a gadget is the attention you get from using it in public.




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The Cleer Flow II headphones are the perfect solution for modern dilemmas

If you're wearing headphones, what do you do when you have to politely inform someone at the checkout that no, you don't have a reward card, and nor are you interested in acquiring one?




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ROB WAUGH: The Pixelbook Go is deliciously slim and worth the money

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




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ROB WAUGH: A ludicrous, lovely toy for the rich and childless 

So I regard the Philips OLED+984 Ambilight with wistful longing. There's little point in bringing such a majestic device into a home where the biggest workout it's going to get is Paw Patrol binges




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Justin Duggar, 16, mows 'Trump 2020' into grass

Josh Duggar's wife Anna revealed on Instagram that Josh's younger brother Justin stamped the message into the grass.




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Wife of sex pest Josh Duggar marks 11-year wedding anniversary and says faith has helped them

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.'




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Josh Duggar and wife Anna take road trip to visit sister Jinger in California

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.




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Sex pest Josh Duggar and his wife Anna count up to six with the birth of their new daughter Maryella

Josh Duggar, who allegedly admitted to molesting multiple underage siblings when he was teenager, welcomed a daughter Maryella, his sixth child with his wife Anna.




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Celebrity MasterChef review by Jim Shelley 

Celebrity Masterchef saw the most famous name in this week's heat and the whole series make it through to Wednesday's show.




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Joey Essex invented a dish mixing stir-fry with risotto on Celebrity Masterchef, by Jim Shelley

Joey Essex and Kellie Maloney were cruelly eliminated in the first 'semi-final' of Celebrity Mastermind - punished primarily for being different.




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Steph's hat-trick of Star Baker awards was only the second in the show's history

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.'




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Your heart went out to Lord Sugar on The Apprentice, by Jim Shelley

Its special opening episode (set in South Africa) was slightly longer than the usual hour and evidently so incredible the notion of just cutting it by five minutes was unthinkable.




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Lord Sugar wasn't impressed on The Apprentice, by JIM SHELLEY

The Apprentice was basically a lesson in how to ruin an ice-lolly. And then mess up selling them.




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Vicky Pattison struggled to stop Greg Rutherford winning Celebrity Masterchef

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.




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Henry was the judges' victim (unfairly) on The Great British Bake Off, by Jim Shelley 

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.