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At least 171 frontline NHS workers have now died in the coronavirus pandemic including 27 doctors 

At least 171 frontline NHS workers have died in the coronavirus pandemic, latest figures reveal. They include at least 27 doctors and around 100 nurse and healthcare supporters, say Nursing Notes.




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Management consultant paid £2,000 a day to cut costs at NHS trust is axed by health board

Management consultant, Phillip Burns (left), who was paid almost £2,000 a day to cut costs at a struggling NHS trust while living in Marbella has himself been axed - to help it save money.




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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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Father 'furious' at anonymous note asking him to remove five-year-old daughter's 'awful' NHS mural

Fleur Jones, five, thought she was in trouble after her dad Alan, of Ardsley, South Yorkshire, told her they may have to remove her mural after a complaint from a neighbour, reports LeedsLive.




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Resident dies at Coronavirus-stricken care home on the Isle of Skye

A resident has died at an Isle of Skye care home where more than 50 people have tested positive with Covid-19. The outbreak was first detected at Home Farm care home in Portree last week




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Coronavirus UK: Leading NHS eye doctor and paramedic die

Opthalmologist Dr Paul Kabasele, 58, died at King's College Hospital on April 24 after contracting coronavirus. 63-year-old nurse Cecilia Fashanau passed away on April 30 at the Cumberland Infirmary.




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Coronavirus UK: Death toll hits 28,675 with 229 more fatalities

The Department of Health - which announces an official daily snapshot of deaths in all settings - has yet to provide today's COVID-19 update.




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Council tells residents weekly NHS music is a 'noise nuisance'

The neighbours in Ashford, Surrey, have been clapping at 8pm once a week while singing along to You'll Never Walk Alone and We'll Meet Again, played through a loudspeaker.




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Coronavirus UK: How does the NHS contact tracing app work?

The NHS is rolling out its coronavirus app today for testing across the Isle of Wight - but critics have questioned why the NHS has chosen to collect the data of millions of people in one central system.




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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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'Unfussy' Sophie Wessex 'just gets on with it', royal expert reveals 

Sophie Wessex, 55, who is currently isolating in Surrey with her husband Prince Edward, 56, is 'unfussy' and 'does things that aren't very glamorous', royal expert Ingrid Seward told CBC News.




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Matt Hancock warns we may NEVER get a coronavirus vaccine and will have to 'live with' pandemic

The Health Secretary outlined the best-case scenario if global efforts to protect people from the deadly pathogen in a television interview this morning.




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Housekeeper is fourth frontline worker to die at one hospital

Momudou 'Mo' Dibba, who worked on Watford General Hospital's Letchmore and Lengley wards, died on April 29 after testing positive for the deadly virus.




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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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Dua Lipa discusses gender inequality in the music industry as she poses for special GQ issue 

The pop princess, 24, shared her take on the different pressures placed on male and female artists as she stars on one of five special covers for the June issue of GQ - dedicated to the NHS and key workers.




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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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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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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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400,000 emergency PPE gowns flown to the UK from Turkey are USELESS and are sitting in a warehouse

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.




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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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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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Coronavirus UK: Notting Hill Carnival is cancelled

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.




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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 Ruark R5 is a seriously high-specced, do-it-all machine

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




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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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It's a girl: Pregnant Anna Duggar and sex pest husband Josh share gender reveal video

Anna, 30, and Josh, 31, are expecting their sixth child in November. The couple already have five children, two of which were born after Josh's dual sex scandals broke in 2015.




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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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Vicky Pattison's cooking skills miraculously transformed on Celebrity Masterchef, by Jim Shelley 

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




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Dracula was Moriarty with fangs and Van Helsing just Holmes with a crucifix, by Jim Shelley 

The start of the three-part adaptation on Wednesday was a compilation of the genre through the ages - a vampires' Greatest Hits, Best of The Count, or Tribute to Transylvania: 'Fangs For The Memories.'




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Social media users reveal the 'best compliments' they've ever received from celebrities

The lucky users took to Twitter to share their stories after journalist James McMahon, from Yorkshire, confessed US actress Jessica Chastain had told him she 'liked his T-shirt' at an event.




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Harrison Ford set to take first-ever regular TV role with adaptation of docuseries The Staircase

The non-fiction saga followed the 2001 trial of writer Michael Peterson, who was accused of murdering his wife at their North Carolina mansion. He said she fell down the stairs by accident.




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Harrison Ford talks speaking about environment at the UN and how he's given up eating meat for cause

The Hollywood icon, 77, appearing on Tuesday's edition of Ellen, goes into detail about delivering his speech to save the Amazon rain forest last fall at the UN Climate Action Summit.




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Harrison Ford, 77, says landing the Star Wars and Indiana Jones franchises was just dumb luck

The 77-year-old actor is one of the biggest box-office stars in cinema history - but Harrison thinks luck has played a significant role in his career, admitting he 'can't believe' the success.




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How movie magicians created Harrison Ford's dog co-star in Call of the Wild film using a HUMAN actor

Harrison Ford's faithful sidekick in his new film was created using a human - former circus performer Terry Notary. Computer whizzes then animated him into a 140lb St Bernard-Scotch Collie.




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Calista Flockhart walks her three small rescue dogs in Santa Monica amid coronavirus quarantine

The 55-year-old Golden Globe winner and husband Harrison Ford will celebrate a decade of marriage in June




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DR ELLIE CANNON: You DON'T need to lock yourself away for months during the coronavirus outbreak

There will be many more cases in the coming weeks. Up to eight in ten of us may contract Covid-19, according to some projections. Despite this, I believe this is not a cause for panic, says DR ELLIE.




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DR ELLIE CANNON: Will my wife's carers be banned from visiting due to the coronavirus outbreak?

A reader asks DR ELLIE CANNON whether his wife's carer will still be allowed to call to the house during the coronavirus outbreak or will he have to cope with this situation on his own.