The Health Secretary has today pledged to keep NHS staff safe after frontline medics revealed they were forced the share facemasks. Nurses working 36-hour shifts in Hillingdon Hospital – in the Prime Minister’s constituency – say they had to wash, reuse and share masks as supplies fell critically low last week. They told MailOnline they … Read more
Carol Vorderman ended her eponymous live radio show on BBC Radio Wales in tears as she remembered her late mother Jean on Saturday. The presenter, 59, was overwhelmed with emotion as she read a Mother’s Day poem in honour of the annual celebration, nearly three years after her parent passed away following a battle with … Read more
‘They feel like lambs to the slaughter’: Top medic says doctors and nurses feel like they are coronavirus ‘CANNON FODDER’ with a lack of tests and protective equipment for frontline NHS staff, in appeal to Boris Johnson Doctors’ Association chairman Dr Rinesh Parmar made a direct appeal to PM He said NHS staff are still … Read more
‘It would have been irresponsible of me’: Kym Marsh CANCELS hosting The One Show over fears she has coronavirus… after Matt Baker self-isolates By Connie Rusk For Mailonline Published: 11:42 GMT, 20 March 2020 | Updated: 11:42 GMT, 20 March 2020 Kym Marsh has cancelled hosting The One Show on Friday over fears she has … Read more
Sitting feet apart, the panellists on tonight’s Question Time took no chances as they followed ‘social distancing’ guidelines amid the coronavirus outbreak. And for the first time, the BBC debate show – broadcast from the Somerset seaside town of Weston-super-Mare – was filmed without a studio audience. Instead, the programme asked viewers to send in … Read more
Roger phoned me in a foul mood. ‘How dare they!’ he said. ‘What a nerve!’ ‘What’s happened?’ I asked, knowing he’d been awaiting a script from the BBC and it was all very hush-hush. ‘They’ve sent the scene. They want me to play an old fart in a club. With one line. One line!’ He … Read more
COOKERY BOOKS OF THE YEAR COOKERY BOOKS OF THE YEAR RICK STEIN’S SECRET FRANCE RICK STEIN’S SECRET FRANCE (BBC Books £26, 320 pp) Rick Stein’s love affair with France began when he was 16 and he is still under its spell. His new book, all about rustic French cooking, is full of old favourites like … Read more
Charles Sabine had spent 26 years covering the misery of war and disaster, with his reports appearing on the BBC and ITN. But on a summer’s day in 2005 he received blood test results that had the potential to send his own life into freefall. His brother, John, was in the grip of Huntington’s disease, … Read more
Gregory Porter considers his life ‘completely unreal’. The Grammy award-winning jazz musician has gone from abject poverty to multimillionaire stardom, performing alongside Adele at Glastonbury and in front of the Queen. He has fronted documentaries on the BBC including Gregory Porter’s Popular Voices, took part in the 70th anniversary VE celebration concert in 2015, and … Read more
British tourists are being stranded abroad and face a battle to return home as airlines lock down and limit flights due to coronavirus quarantines. From Morocco to the Philippines, reports have surfaced of British travellers stuck at airports, waiting for the chance to return home. Spain’s closure of its land borders on Monday sent British … Read more