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NHS is facing 'ticking time-bomb' of claims from families of dead Covid-19 patients

At least 17 families whose loved ones have died during the Covid-19 pandemic are considering legal action, according to support charity Action Against Medical Accidents. (Stock picture from library)




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Mother jumps in terror when her cat suddenly 'talks' in hilarious prank by her teenage son 

Cameron Horne, 16, from Framfield, East Sussex gave his mum Louise Love, 35, a huge shock when she thought their cat Bownisha had started talking to her.




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Amanda Holden gushes about the NHS as she says it's 'wonderful to shine a light' on their work

The BGT judge, 49, discussed how the healthcare system helped her when her baby son was stillborn at seven months in 2011 during an appearance on Monday's Good Morning Britain.




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Antibody tests to tell millions if they had coronavirus will be rolled out within two weeks

Roche Diagnostics has finally created a kit that is accurate enough to be used at scale - and the firm says it has enough stock to provide hundreds of thousands to the NHS every week.




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Lizzie Cundy celebrates Star Wars Day in lockdown

Lizzie Cundy, 52, celebrated Star Wars day, May the 4th, by dressing up as Princess Leia for her at-home workout on Monday.




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Prince William lets air ambulances land at Kensington Palace

Prince William, who was made patron of the London Air Ambulance Charity in March, has offered up grassland at the palace normally used for Royal Family helicopters, reports the Evening Standard.




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Deliberately infecting healthy Britons may be the only way to test a COVID-19 vaccine

Lockdown will make it difficult to assess the successful of a vaccine - such as that developed by University of Oxford - because it is preventing the spread of the virus globally.




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Intensive care nurse tells Lorraine she's 'gutted' she can't 'marry her best friend'

Jessica Head, an intensive care nurse from Glasgow, told Lorraine Kelly it has been 'difficult' after her wedding was postponed indefinitely amid the coronavirus pandemic.




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SARAH VINE: Who'll dare to face the facts on obesity and Covid-19? 

With each day that passes, we learn a little bit more about the nature of this ghastly virus. Statistics show that obesity is one of the biggest risk factors for Covid-19.




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Simon Cowell and Lauren Silverman rubbish 'ridiculous' Mel B affair claims

A source exclusively told MailOnline that the couple were 'very happy' and are isolating in LA, following claims that Lauren, 42, had furiously accused Simon, 60, of having an affair with Mel B, 44.




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Even medieval plague doctors had better PPE!

Dr Jon Orrell, a senior partner at Royal Crescent Surgery in Weymouth, Dorset, shared a video of his family members dressed in various styles of PPE.




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Captain Tom Moore says he is 'very proud' after being awarded a gold Blue Peter badge

The gold badge is Blue Peter's highest accolade and famous recipients include the Queen, Sir David Attenborough and Mary Berry. Moore, 100, raised over £30m for NHS charities.




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Amanda Holden's charity single hits number 1 on iTunes beating the likes of The Weeknd and Dua Lipa

Amanda Holden's charity single, Somewhere Over The Rainbow, has hit the number one spot on iTunes, ahead of music megastars The Weeknd and Dua Lipa.




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Amanda Holden puts on a leggy display in a rainbow coloured mini dress

Her daughter recently sparked confusion by claiming Simon Cowell and Lauren Silverman had split up during an Instagram live.




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Nurses are forced to use out-of-date face masks that were relabelled with new expiry dates

Staff at the Northern Lincolnshire and Goole Foundation Trust discovered boxes of face masks which expired in 2012 had been relabelled with 2022 expiry dates and deemed fit for use.




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Stranger Things' Millie Bobby Brown, 16, donates £15,000 to NHS frontline staff fighting coronavirus

The actress, 16, gave £5,000 each to Bournemouth Hospital Charity, Salisbury District Hospital Stars Appeal and Southampton Hospitals Charity.




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Five adorable penguin chicks which hatched at Chester Zoo have been named after NHS hospitals

Five adorable Humboldt penguin chicks have hatched at Chester Zoo. The keepers have named them after NHS heroes and hospitals - including Florence Nightingale.




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Alex Jones breaks down in tears as Christopher Eccleston reads emotional NHS poem on The One Show

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.




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Cher Lloyd reveals her father has been hospitalised and is 'seriously unwell'

Cher Lloyd's took to Instagram to reveal that her father is 'seriously unwell' and has been hospitalised on Wednesday afternoon.




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Author John Le Carre blames government's Covid-19 response as 'tragic national cock-up'

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.




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Coronavirus UK: New Banksy artwork in Southampton hospital

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.




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Concerns grow over 'disproportionate impact' of coronavirus on BAME community

People from black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) communities are two to three times more likely to die from coronavirus, new analysis by University College London today suggests.




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Amanda Holden's daughter Hollie, 8, delights in baking rainbow cupcakes

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.




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Coronavirus UK: 100k wrongly told 'extremely vulnerable'

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




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Health bosses accuse ministers of 'breaking PPE promises'

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.




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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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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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Children hit by inflamed blood vessels had coronavirus, study finds

Coronavirus is 'manifesting' as a deadly new inflammatory syndrome in some children, a British study into eight cases of the autoimmune disorder revealed yesterday.




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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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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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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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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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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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Christine Lampard and husband Frank join the nation in clap for carers 

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




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Human laboratory that could defeat coronavirus

Retired teacher Beverley Attwood lives with her husband Bob in a picturesque cottage festooned with VE Day bunting in Brighstone, one of the prettiest villages on the Isle of Wight.




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PPE pirates shamelessly buy up vital safety gear and ramp up prices for NHS and carers

Shameless opportunists are buying up supplies of personal protective equipment and hiking prices by as much as 10,000 times, a Mail investigation has found. 




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The most fitting of fly-pasts marks VE Day after Mail made the Spitfire tour possible

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.




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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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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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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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Britain announces hundreds more coronavirus deaths

The Department of Health has yet to release the final daily toll, which takes into account care home fatalities in England and also provides an update on cases, hospital admissions and testing.




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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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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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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