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Royal Mail says it is "honoured" to commemorate the war veteran, who has raised £29m for the NHS.

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A quadriplegic ex-rugby player inspired by Captain Tom Moore to walk 26 laps of his home for charity has completed his challenge, "smashing" his £2,000 target.

Jimmy Gittins, 46, has raised more than £5,500 by completing laps around his Wakefield home on crutches, and said: "To not only to make the £2,000 target but then to absolutely smash it, I just think it's truly amazing."

Image source, Jimmy Gittins

Managers say staff face long journeys to test centres, with one reporting a three-hour round trip.

Michael and Mary Blessington were placed apart in hospital, but started to improve once moved together.

Saleem Butt, 61, was found with serious injuries in his house on Hyrstlands Road in Batley.

Ex-rugby player Jimmy Gittins, who was left paralysed in 2002, is walking 26 laps of his home for charity.

Former Ospreys and Dragons prop Dan Suter and his club Doncaster Knights are punished for using an unregistered agent.

Staff and directors at a residential home will move into motorhomes for three weeks.

Leeoni Batty is working in a hospital's domestic services team while studying for her A-levels.

Ravers and partygoers tune into live streams to recreate the shared experience of clubbing at home.

More than 500,000 people have already tuned in to listen to Dale Castell's sets on Facebook.

A group of volunteers in West Yorkshire who are making Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) for front-line NHS workers say they've completed their first consignment.

The group of 40 volunteers in Boston Spa, West Yorkshire, who call themselves the "Boston Scrubbers", started making scrubs for health workers two weeks ago.

They've already finished 26 full sets of scrubs, 82 scrub bags, 100 headbands and 26 mask holders, with a further 32 sets of scrubs in production, they say.

Today's collection has been taken to Yorkshire Scrubs, the Facebook group pooling together scrubs for the NHS being made by groups across the county.

A university has donated more than 160,000 items of personal protective equipment (PPE) to doctors, nurses and staff on the front line in Sheffield.

Image source, The University of Sheffield

The equipment, including face masks, coveralls, latex gloves and hand sanitiser, has been collected from laboratories and workshops at the University of Sheffield and given to NHS staff at the Northern General Hospital.

University engineers have also been working to design and produce face shields.

President and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Sheffield, Prof Koen Lamberts, said: “Like so many universities in the UK, one of our first responses to the Covid-19 pandemic was to ask, ‘what can we do to help?’.

"We are very pleased to be able to support the NHS through research, innovation and donations of equipment such as PPE."

Rainbow signs with a "thank you" message for staff working on the front line fighting coronavirus are to be installed on roundabouts in East Yorkshire.

Image source, East Riding of Yorkshire Council

The signs thank NHS staff and carers for their work during the pandemic.

Five roundabouts are to feature the signs, which are designed to be an uplifting message of appreciation to key workers as they travel to work, the council said.

The first of the signs were installed on the Castle Hill roundabout near Castle Hill Hospital this morning.

Councillor Richard Burton, leader of East Riding of Yorkshire Council, said: "Many key workers across the East Riding are doing an outstanding job at this very difficult time.

"These rainbow roundabout signs are just a small way of showing our support and appreciation for those hard-working staff in the NHS and in the care sector who are providing essential help and care to so many people in our community."

Huddersfield Town assistant manager Nicky Cowley has a charge of verbally abusing a Nottingham Forest coach withdrawn by the FA.

The Yorkshire Air Ambulance (YAA) is back flying from tomorrow after their doctors and paramedics were deployed to the front line to help with the fight against coronavirus.

Image source, Yorkshire Air Ambulance

The aircraft were grounded at the beginning of April, however one of the helicopters will return to work tomorrow, it's been announced.

The charity said it comes as patients will not be sent to the new Nightingale facility in Harrogate as existing hospitals continue to manage the surge in coronavirus cases allowing the YAA crew to return to their usual duties.

One of the two aircraft will be operational as the other undergoes annual maintenance.

The charity added that is has seen a fundraising deficit of about £420,000 as events were cancelled because of the virus.

Peter Sunderland, chairman of the YAA, commented: "Obviously we are delighted to be able to start operating one of our helicopters again and have our crew available to respond to emergency 999 calls.

"The team has worked at very short notice to make the necessary preparations to recommence operations from tomorrow, and I would like to thank them for their hard work and dedication in ensuring we’re ready to resume our vital work."

Department for Transport funding will support "essential services" across England, a spokesman says.

A firm hoping to supply visors to NHS staff says it has not had a government response to its offer.

The government has confirmed it will support England's light rail systems to "allow essential services to continue" during the coronavirus pandemic.

The Department for Transport (DfT) said it was working with networks in Greater Manchester, Sheffield, the West Midlands, Nottingham and Tyne and Wear.

Greater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham had warned his area's service could be "mothballed" due to financial losses.

The DfT said it was working "to identify what support is needed".