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LINDA ROBSON: My shattering breakdown. In a soul-baring memoir, Loose Women star describes how she became so addicted to alcohol she was reduced to a mortifying habit and was banned from looking after her grandchildren
10/02/24 02:05
I was the last person you'd expect it to happen to. Not me, Linda Robson. I was one of life's strong people. I soldiered on, no matter what. Whatever the world threw at me, I could cope with it. I was the least likely candidate for a breakdown. But if there's one thing I've learned over the past few turbulent years, it's that mental health issues don't discriminate - and that they have nothing to do with how 'strong' you are. If it can happen to me, it can happen to anyone, and I hope that sharing my experience might help someone who is suffering similar problems. Because I wouldn't wish any of it on my worst enemy. I've thought a lot about what might have triggered my mental illness, but I don't think it was ever just one thing....read
Rishi's Rwanda plan blows up in his face: PM faces coup threat from Tory right as immigration minister Robert Jenrick QUITS hours after new emergency law is published - warning courts will STILL be able to block flights
06/12/23 16:56In an extraordinary meltdown, Robert Jenrick walked out of the Cabinet just hours after the PM published emergency Rwanda legislation - declaring that it would fail.'Who governs Britain?' Suella Braverman delivers brutal resignation statement to the Commons warning Rishi Sunak the Tories face 'electoral oblivion' if he fails to stop the boats and demands emergency Rwanda flights law sidesteps human rights rules
06/12/23 14:57The former home secretary used a bombshell first Commons appearance since being sacked by the PM to demand he take a hardline approach with emergency legislation due this week.Widow of Julian Assange's lawyer who took his own life loses £5m compensation claim against psychiatrist she blamed for his death - but will receive a smaller payout after agreeing out-of-court settlements
10/10/23 13:28The grieving widow of Julian Assange's lawyer has lost her £5m compensation claim against one of the psychiatrists she blamed for him taking his life.Widow of Julian Assange's lawyer who took his own life while being treated for depression is suing psychiatrist in £5million case saying the QC was 'not inevitably doomed to take his own life'
22/05/23 11:32John Jones, who represented Julian Assange, died after walking out of north London's Nightingale Hospital, where he was being treated for acute depression in April 2016.Owners of London's ExCel centre sue their insurers for £16m in compensation over lost profits after it was turned into Nightingale hospital during pandemic
07/11/22 13:20London International Exhibition Centre plc say the losses they suffered from not being able to host events during the Covid outbreak should be covered by their insurers.Widow of Julian Assange's QC who killed himself after jumping in front of a train launches £5m compensation claim against psychiatric hospital and medics treating him for depression over its 'wholly inadequate' care
23/03/22 12:47Misa Zgonec-Rozej is fighting in the High Court for £5million in compensation on her family's behalf following the death of her husband John Jones in April 2016.Nightingale units will be set up in hospital CAR PARKS to provide fast access to overspill Covid wards as NHS goes on 'war footing' for Omicron wave
30/12/21 02:15Eight hospitals in England will start to build temporary structures to house up to 100 Covid patients each. They will be fitted with beds and machines for those who need treatment after intensive care.Staff at London's Nightingale Hospital contributed to the death of a Covid patient, 58, when they used the wrong filter in his ventilator, inquest hears
12/10/21 18:06London bus driver Kishorkumar Patel, 58, from Sudbury, north west London, was one of the first patients to be transferred to the flagship Nightingale on April 7 last year.London's Nightingale hospital 'did not have the systems of care we needed' senior doctor tells inquest into Covid death of bus driver, 58, who was treated by staff who did not use ventilator properly
05/10/21 16:29Dr Alastair Proudfoot, the clinical lead at the London Nightingale Hospital, told an inquest he had 'no control' over equipment or staff amid the pandemic last year.UK's Covid outbreak stays flat despite fears of a school surge: Country records 38,013 daily cases in 0.4% fall in a week and deaths drop 6% to 167 while hospital admissions creep up by 2%
09/09/21 15:27Department of Health bosses posted 38,013 new infections today, down 0.4 per cent on last week. It was the first time Britain has recorded a week-on-week fall in cases since last Thursday.ALL NHS hospitals could get tougher guidelines on using ventilators after deaths of THREE Covid patients who were given wrong equipment at make-shift Nightingale in London
17/08/21 15:07London bus driver Kishorkumar Patel, 58, was one of three patients who died after the ventilator mix-up. Staff failed to properly attach filters which prevent the build up of mucus.Killers turned murder into a cartoon: Gangsters hunted random victim from 'enemy territory' in east London before they stabbed innocent NHS worker to death
11/08/21 12:38Four gang members who stabbed an innocent NHS worker to death in Newham, London, just for where he lived are facing life sentences after being convicted of murder.NHS Trust BUYS its local £11m Nightingale Hospital that only ever treated 250 Covid patients in bid to reduce waiting list for surgeries
20/07/21 10:15A hospital trust has bought its local Nightingale Hospital to get surgery waiting lists for the county down.Kate Middleton says pandemic 'exacerbated' struggles families face in deprived areas as she praises food bank volunteer who features in her Hold Still photography contest for his 'community spirit' during phone call
07/06/21 18:14At the start of the coronavirus pandemic, Sami volunteered at a community Food Hub in Hackney. He chatted with the duchess last Autumn in a clip released to YouTube today.Tana Ramsay steps out in London after her daughter Holly, 21, spoke about spending three months in a mental health hospital following two sexual assaults aged 18
26/05/21 20:43The cookery book writer, 46, looked stylish as she met friends for lunch at The Ivy Chelsea Garden on King's Road.'I had PTSD, anxiety and depression': Gordon Ramsay's daughter Holly, 21, reveals she spent three months in a mental health hospital after being sexually assaulted twice aged 18
26/05/21 13:46She left Ravensbourne University after a year and was admitted to the Nightingale Hospital in Marylebone, the capital's only private mental health hospitalBirmingham's 2,000-bed Nightingale hospital built at a cost of £66million is to close without ever treating a single patient
10/03/21 12:10The 2,000-bed facility in Birmingham was commissioned by the NHS at the height of the first wave of the pandemic to deal with an expected surge in Covid patients - but it was never used.Matt Hancock says closure of four Nightingale hospitals is an 'important moment in our national recovery' from Covid and claims £500m facilities were 'critical' despite lying empty most of the year
09/03/21 10:03The Health Secretary said the combined success of the UK vaccine rollout and 'everybody's commitment to stick by the rules' meant there was little need to keep the emergency facilities open.Four out of England's seven Nightingale Hospitals will CLOSE permanently next month while others will be used for vaccinations or NHS clinics in 'transition' back to normal
08/03/21 18:51NHS England confirmed that the temporary hospitals in Birmingham, Manchester, Bristol and Harrogate will close first, with those in London and Sunderland used as vaccination centres.'Stressed' London Nightingale hospital project manager, 43, who battered his mother and stepfather is found not guilty of attempted murder due to insanity
08/02/21 20:49A project manager working on London's Nightingale hospital who went 'berserk' and killed his mother and stepfather has been found not guilty by reason of insanity.Project manager, 43, 'stressed' by working on London's Nightingale hospital 'went berserk and tried to murder his church warden mother and his stepfather'
02/02/21 17:26James Wells, 43, is accused of attacking Linda Holford and her husband Adrian Holford at their home Shalbourne, near Marlborough, Wiltshire, on March 30 last year.London buses are turned into ambulances to ease strain on NHS as Covid deaths continue to soar
21/01/21 15:29The two buses can carry four patients each and have been kitted out with all vital equipment. The bus firm hopes they will transfer patients to the Nightingale hospital at London's ExCeL arena.Palestinian refugee who spent much of 2020 on hunger strike in bizarre row with Home Office over his age is ruled to be 31 years old by Court of Appeal judge... despite insisting he's only 26
15/01/21 10:35The man - who cannot be named - came to the UK in 2007 claiming to be 14. But an assessment found he was 19. Three Court of Appeal judges said the assessment was done 'properly'.Police probe hospitality chief's 'illegal NYE party' at four-star Harrogate hotel where he 'partied with 10 friends' with staff 'forced to serve them all drinks and breakfast the following morning'
14/01/21 11:34An outspoken managing director of a hotel group who fed Nightingale Hospital staff and railed against lockdown is being investigated over claims he held a Covid rule-breaking NYE partyElderly woman tells Matt Hancock he's 'the good looking one' after she gets Covid jab at new vaccination centre
11/01/21 16:30The Health Secretary was on a visit to Epsom racecourse in Surrey, now being used as a mass-vaccination area, when he started talking to people who had the jab.Hundreds of cancer operations are cancelled in London as hospitals are inundated with Covid patients
08/01/21 22:18Hospitals across London must now open up more and more beds for patients, but shortages in staff still remain a major concern. Pictured: Daily coronavirus hospitalisations in the UK.On the frontline of the coronavirus crisis: Intensive care nurses and doctors battle to save Covid patients as it is warned London's hospitals could be overwhelmed in two weeks
07/01/21 13:06Shattered staff at St George's Hospital in Tooting, south-west London say they are working 'to the limit' of their ability, battling low morale and exhausting shift patterns.London's hospitals will be overwhelmed by Covid patients in TWO weeks: Stark NHS briefing reveals how - in a BEST CASE scenario - 2,000 beds are needed even after Nightingale is opened
06/01/21 22:29Vin Diwakar, medical director at NHS England London, provided the worrying analysis to medical directors this afternoon. Pictured: Covid hospitalisations in England.Boris Johnson reveals seven Covid vaccination centres will open across England next week 'to deliver tens of thousands of jabs a week' - as small pharmacies beg officials to let them join the huge effort to end lockdown by mid-February
06/01/21 16:40The hubs will be based in venues including sports centres and London's ExCeL convention centre, and will be equipped to administer thousands of doses every week.Nightingale hospital at ExCel centre is being converted into Covid-19 vaccination hub
06/01/21 00:17London's Nightingale hospital is to double up as a mass vaccination hub, providing jabs seven days a week from 8am to 8pm. Work continued last night at the ExCel, Europe's biggest conference centre.Number of patients being treated in ambulances soars and emergency calls go unanswered as hospitals buckle under Covid strain - after it emerged critically ill people being are being send from London to the West Country to ease pressure
04/01/21 01:22NHS data shows that the number of patients waiting more than an hour to be handed to hospitals in England increased from 273 on December 13 to 591 on December 27.UK records another 54,990 coronavirus cases and 454 deaths - an 80% rise in infections in a week - amid warnings more under 30s are in intensive care as NHS plans to send Covid patients to West Country to ease pressure on crisis-hit wards
03/01/21 15:41NHS hospitals in the West Country are bracing for an overspill of critically-ill patients under emergency plans, with London trusts preparing to move patients to the south-west.Critically-ill Covid patients in London and south east will be sent to hospitals in the West Country to ease pressure on overwhelmed wards amid second wave as medics warn of more under 30s battling virus in intensive care
03/01/21 11:37Trusts in London and the south-east are preparing to transfer patients to hospitals in the south-west while patients in the east of England will be moved to the Midlands.Send in the troops! 150 new mobile Army teams will deliver vaccinations with a fleet of Land Rovers and Chinook helicopters
03/01/21 00:48As part of a mission dubbed Operation Delta Force - named after the elite US Special Forces unit - teams of medics and logistics experts will help to deliver the vaccine in harsh winter weather.Nightingale hospitals in London and across England are 'reactivated and ready to admit patients' as capital's NHS facilities struggle under pressure of new Covid wave
31/12/20 16:13The Excel centre site has been readied after laying deserted for months as Britain yesterday recorded 981 Covid deaths in the deadliest day of the pandemic since April.Red tape blamed for only 5,000 of the 40,000 retired NHS workers who volunteered to return to fight Covid being given jobs
30/12/20 01:51Medics were required to provide 21 documents to support their application to volunteer in UK hospitals, which even included evidence of Prevent Radicalisation training.What happened to the NHS' army of volunteers? Ex-GP who answered health service's cry for help in April claims 'only a handful' of 50,000 retired medics were used during Covid crisis - as Nightingales are dismantled 'because there isn't enough staff'
29/12/20 18:50Dr Brian Cooper, 73, who used to work at Birmingham City Hospital, was one of tens of thousands of former medics to sign up to the NHS's call for volunteers in April.Only 28 Covid patients are currently being treated in No10's £220million Nightingale hospitals while top doctor begs ministers to use ALL of the mothballed facilities - as make-shift units get dismantled 'because there aren't enough staff to run them'
29/12/20 09:31Department of Health statistics also revealed three Nightingales - Bristol, Manchester and Harrogate - are still yet to receive their first Covid-19 patients. The hospitals cost £220million to build.NHS trust calls for urgent help caring for Covid patients amid fears a 'perfect storm' caused by the new strain will overwhelm hospitals
27/12/20 19:41Cardiff and Vale University Health Board tweeted on Boxing Day requesting 'urgent' help treating Covid patients, while clinicians in Scotland warned we could be set to face a 'perfect storm' of problems.'One in TEN hospital workers are off sick or isolating' as coronavirus hits NHS
27/12/20 11:27Covid advisor to the BMA and a hospital consultant in Exeter, Dr David Strain, has claimed that the shortages mean there are not enough staff to re-open the pop-up Nightingale hospitals.Race to roll out the vaccine: Speeding up our Covid-19 jab programme is the only way to beat the mutated virus, experts warn
23/12/20 22:36The coronavirus vaccine programme must be speeded up, politicians and business leaders said on Wednesday night, as Jeremy Hunt calls for acceleration of jab roll out.Give NHS staff the vaccine to open up abandoned Nightingales, say health chiefs - as it emerges 85,000 medics are off sick or isolating amid calls for to fast-track 90,000 student nurses to the frontline
21/12/20 12:42The enormous structures were hailed at the start of the pandemic as a solution to the growing crisis in hospital capacity in Britain, but many are currently lying empty as the crisis continues to spiral.Britain's deserted Nightingale hospitals: Doctors and nurses at facilities built to relieve strain on the NHS wait for patients to arrive as they STILL lie empty despite rising Covid cases amid new mutant strain
20/12/20 17:31East London's ExCeL centre - the first site opened by NHS England amid the crisis, is seen practically deserted in pictures taken today.Why ARE the Nightingale hospitals all lying empty? London unit still only 'on standby' despite London being thrown into Tier 4 measures and Christmas cancelled over rising cases
20/12/20 00:21The ExCeL London temporary hospital, which was the first site built by NHS England, is 'on standby' alongside centres in Birmingham and Sunderland.Devon and Exeter NHS trust declares 'black alert' because of 'high levels of Covid' in its hospitals and around 900 staff being off sick
15/12/20 16:23Bosses at the Royal Devon and Exeter NHS Trust have activated 'black alert' over rising patient numbers. Its chief executive said whole wards have been closed due to the virus.Exeter Nightingale reopens because Devon hospital is 'very busy' - even though it was only 88% full last week and was quieter than most (so WHY can't it cope?)
26/11/20 13:45Bosses at the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital insisting their wards were 'very busy'. They had on average 85 out of 647 beds filled with Covid-19 patients in the week ending November 17.Coronavirus vaccines WILL roll out next month: Matt Hancock says UK regulator is already assessing Pfizer's jab and he hopes ALL age groups will start getting it by the end of January as UK deaths pass 70,000 - but numbers show the second wave HAS peaked
20/11/20 17:30The Health Secretary said in a TV briefing today that the Government has officially asked the UK drugs regulator, the MHRA, to consider licensing Pfizer's vaccine.Coronavirus vaccinations could be under way for ALL adults by the end of January after the most vulnerable get jabs next month, leaked NHS plans show
20/11/20 10:25Healthcare workers and the most vulnerable could start receiving the jabs in just 12 days, according to leaked documents handed to NHS regional leaders yesterday. The documents are dated November 13.Government plan to inoculate one million Brits a day: Dozens of mass vaccination centres will be set up within weeks with FIREFIGHTERS among workers retrained to administer covid vaccine
20/11/20 01:41GP surgeries have been told to organise the initial wave, which will involve using community centres, village halls, and practices to administer the jabs to care workers and the elderly next month.Nightingale hospitals are treating fewer than 30 patients and only one of the seven facilities across England is open - despite the recent rise in Covid hospital admissions
15/11/20 02:25The 750-bed Nightingale hospital in Manchester is caring for a few dozen patients who have now tested negative for the coronavirus but are in need of step-down care after a stay in hospital.Most Nightingale hospitals may never fully open due to a shortage of NHS staff - while each patient admitted so far has cost £1MILLION to treat
07/11/20 23:25Seven huge venues including London's Excel Centre were converted into critical care hospitals early in the pandemic at a cost of £220million, but just two of them have treated Covid patients.Fake fan-tracks, a 250-strong choir for the national anthem, pre-recorded hymns, and firepower: Wales eager to transform Parc y Scarlets into their home... as they get ready to host international match outside Cardiff for first time in 17 years vs Scotland
29/10/20 09:43EXCLUSIVE BY WILL KELLEHER: From fake fan-tracks to pre-recorded hymns and sanitation stations the new world has drastically altered match days in Wales.The numbers behind Boris Johnson's 'traffic light' lockdown: Striking graphs show how England's second wave is 'extending' south of the hotspots in the North as three Nightingale Hospitals are put on alert to reopen
12/10/20 07:54Deputy chief medical officer Jonathan Van-Tam and NHS medical director Stephen Powis told a No10 briefing the number of patients in hospital was now higher than before the blanket lockdown.The divisions of the past have not been swept away, says LORD ASHCROFT who believes there's still hope for the Tories despite poll showing voters are turning on 'incompetent' Boris Johnson
03/10/20 21:02LORD ASHCROFT: Many voters on all sides are taking a much more forgiving view of the Government's handling of the crisis than the media coverage might suggest.Are corona passports really the magic bullet Ministers hope they'll be? Experts are sceptical that testing to prove people DON'T have Covid-19 could help unlock society
19/09/20 21:11Corona cases are said to be doubling every week, hospital admissions are creeping up, and on Friday the mothballed Nightingale hospitals were put back on standby.Britain will plunge back into Covid lockdown if people do not obey new rule of six says Government advisor as 'Nightingale hospitals are put on standby'
13/09/20 08:29Peter Openshaw, professor of experimental medicine at Imperial College London, said the UK needs to act fast to stop coronavirus cases growing out of control.Army could be drafted in to deliver 'moonshot' vaccination drive at empty NHS Nightingale hospital sites - as government's screening advisers say they've NOT been consulted
12/09/20 07:25Officials believe soldiers (pictured at NHS Nightingale in London in April) are needed to dish out the tens of millions of jabs to the public when a vaccine is ready.PPE providers, the firm behind school meal vouchers and the NHS locum medic bank among big winners making millions as Government pays private firms £6.5BILLION during COVID crisis
20/08/20 11:49More than 1,200 deals have been done, often without tendering, as ministers scrambled to adapt to the lightning-fast spread of the virus and the economic collapse that followed.Senior minister calls for a generation of prefab homes to build Britain by flat pack
28/07/20 23:55Treasury chief secretary Steve Barclay has suggested developers use pre-fab models to get Britain building more quickly, while Nightingale hospitals should be used as models for future sites.Two NHS Nightingale hospitals are converted into cancer testing centres in a bid to cope with the backlog of thousands of suspected cases
30/06/20 12:49NHS England boss Sir Simon Stevens said the Exeter Nightingale will start screening patients on Monday. It follows the Nightingale Harrogate, which started doing CT scans on June 4.Revealed: The top 2020 lockdown baby names include Hope and Hero as 'anxious' parents use their newborns as a way to focus on a positive future
08/06/20 14:03The top British baby names of 2020, which have been influenced by the coronavirus pandemic, have been revealed in surprising new research.Care home lockdown plan was rejected by ministers at the peak of the coronavirus outbreak last month
29/05/20 00:58Downing Street received an 11-point plan proposing 'a further lockdown of care homes' from PHE on April 28. The moves were not included in the action plan unveiled by Health Secretary Matt Hancock.Government quietly mothballs another FOUR NHS Nightingales after putting 4,000-bed hospital at London's ExCel centre on 'standby' - as flights are set to restart at City Airport by end of June
27/05/20 14:04EXCLUSIVE: The flagship Nightingale location in London was already mothballed earlier this month, while sites in Birmingham, Bristol, Harrogate and Tyne and Wear are also closed.Knittingdale hospital! Great-great-grandmother, 91, raises money to help the NHS fight coronavirus with her own woolly replica
17/05/20 21:00They are not the sort of stitches usually associated with hospitals. But 91-year-old Margaret Seaman from Caistor, near Yarmouth, Norfolk is busy with her knitting needles to raise money for the NHS.Manchester City reveal extent of their NHS support amid the coronavirus crisis, facilitating 1,000 tests a day by repurposing the Etihad Stadium, training 350 nurses and providing community support
08/05/20 21:31Manchester City's partnership with the NHS is facilitating 1,000 coronavirus tests a day at the Etihad Stadium. The Premier League side have been praised for opening their doors to the NHS.NHS worker, 24, was stabbed eight times while chatting on the phone to his girlfriend days before his father's funeral, court hears, as teenagers, 18 and 16, appear charged with murder
04/05/20 13:47Muhammad Jalloh, 18, and a 16-year-old boy, who cannot be named, allegedly killed David Gomoh in a 'random' attack moments after he left his family home at 10.25pm on 26 April.London's NHS Nightingale hospital will be MOTHBALLED to new patients and kept as backup in case new Covid outbreak strikes Britain after treating just 51 patients
04/05/20 11:57The facility at the ExCeL Centre in east London, which opened on April 3, and has the capacity to provide around 4,000 beds, will now be placed on standby.Will empty Nightingale hospital be moved into hibernation? ExCel Centre facility could be mothballed within days after it treated just 51 patients in three weeks
03/05/20 23:26One of the five temporary Nightingale hospitals could be mothballed within days under plans ministers will consider this week. The health centre was built to expand the NHS's intensive care capacity.NHS launches probe after senior official 'set up his own online business privately selling personal protective equipment during coronavirus crisis'
01/05/20 16:00David Singleton, 42, a senior NHS official in London - who has reportedly been working at the Nightingale hospital - launched the business two weeks ago to trade in visors, masks and gowns.Hospital waiting rooms could become thing of the past and appointments by phone will continue even after Covid-19 crisis is over says professor running London's Nightingale hospital
28/04/20 16:13London Nightingale hospital's Professor Charles Knight said the NHS needs to look at doing away with waiting rooms and moving non-coronavirus patients to Nightingale.'Heartless' doctor knocked down pensioner in his 80s in a road-rage hit and run but is spared jail after judge is told he hoped to work at one of the Nightingale hospitals
28/04/20 15:05Doctor Ali Shah, 40, from Birmingham, (pictured left) drove at the victim and knocked him off his feet with his wing mirror when he 'saw red'. He drove off without checking if the elderly man was injured.Inside Prince Edward's delightfully normal home office at Bagshot Park: Earl of Wessex surrounds himself with stuffed animals, homemade art and a collection of well-thumbed books
28/04/20 09:27Prince Edward, 56, offered royal followers a look at their delightfully normal home office at Bagshot Park, Surrey, when he appeared via videolink to open the Nightingale Hospital in Bristol.Britain's barely-used NHS Nightingales may FINALLY see patients today when hospitals become 'Covid-free zones' and restart thousands of cancer and other treatments put on hold by crisis
28/04/20 09:19Health Secretary Matt Hancock is planning to reopen key areas of the NHS for routine care - including cancer treatment starting from today - and 13,000 people could move to the UK Nightintgales.Could ALL the new Nightingale hospitals be better used? They were set up as an essential safety net during the coronavirus crisis - but with thousands of beds empty and death rates now waning, should they take in non-virus patients, asks PAUL BRACCHI
27/04/20 21:00It cannot be denied the seven Nightingales in England, constructed at a cost of many millions, are treating just a handful of patients. Pictured, England's chief executive Simon Stevens in London.Prince Edward thanks NHS workers for being 'ready and willing to care with compassion' as he describes 'curious experience' of opening Britain's newest Nightingale facility in Bristol by video link
27/04/20 18:36The Earl of Wessex, 56, speaking from his home in Bagshot Park, Surrey, praised NHS workers as he officially opened Britain's newest Nightingale hospital in Bristol.NHS Nightingales are barely used due to lack of specialist equipment to treat severe coronavirus cases with medics 'cherry-picking' patients least likely to die to send there, claims doctor as FIFTH crisis hospital opens today
27/04/20 10:57Experts have alleged the reason why only dozens of people are being treated in the temporary wards set up in warehouses and exhibition centres is because they lack staff and equipment.The giant Nightingale hospital that hasn't treated ONE patient: West Midlands Mayor Andy Street admits new temporary health centre in Birmingham has 'not needed to be used' yet
27/04/20 00:21The temporary hospital, which was built in eight days and opened on April 10. But West Midlands mayor Andy Street admitted it has 'not needed to be used'.MPs call for elderly coronavirus patients in care homes to be treated in empty Nightingale hospitals to stop the disease spreading
26/04/20 18:53Labour's shadow minister for care and older people Liz Kendall urged ministers to use empty Nightingale hospitals to stop the virus spreading among 500,000 residents and staff in care homes.Staff slam empty London Nightingale hospital as a 'complete waste of money' as patients drop to a 'ludicrously low' 26
25/04/20 22:48The number of patients being treated at the NHS's new showcase Nightingale Hospital fell to just 26 last week after managers failed to tackle a chronic nursing shortage.
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- Bette Midler, 73, reveals if she was ever asked to join Real Housewives Of Beverly Hills... after she promised to talk some 's***' on the show
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- Ryan Giggs' pregnant girlfriend Zara Charles displays her growing baby bump while running errands in Cheshire
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- Princess Anne returns to royal duties for the first time since suffering concussion in horse-related accident as she attends riding event
- Alan Carr's ex-husband Paul Drayton begs the DVLA to hand him his driving licence back as he's 'turned my life around' two years after ban
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- Lana Del Rey models cut-off shorts as she enjoys a fun day with friends in NYC... after dropping a music video for Tough featuring Quavo
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- Sami Sheen, 20, poses in a skimpy pink bikini in Italy... before the OnlyFans star is set to appear with mom Denise Richards on a new TV show
- Popular comedian confirms his hit BBC comedy has been AXED after just two series
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- Hugh Grant and his wife Anna Elisabet Eberstein enjoy day date at Wimbledon while Vick Hope and Lauren Silverman make the most of the sunshine
- Prince William shows off his skills as he takes to the field at charity match in memory of Rugby star Rob Burrow - but Kate misses annual Windsor event
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- Katy Perry has a VIBRATOR in her tool belt as a 'bold declaration of women's sexual liberation' for her Woman's World music video
- Richard Simmons turns 76! Reclusive fitness guru reveals how he'll celebrate in VERY rare interview and says he's 'grateful to be alive' after skin cancer
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- Beaming Amanda Abbington shares a laugh with director Jez Bond during show rehearsals as Giovanni Pernice is 'hit by fresh legal action'
- Kim Kardashian stuns in bridal white as she and sister Khloe head to lavish three-day wedding of Indian billionaire Mukesh Ambani's son
- Netflix fans go wild for new gay Japanese dating series - with viewers claiming it is BETTER than American reality TV
- Pregnant Jorgie Porter cradles her baby bump in a blush crop top and midi skirt as she arrives at beauty event
- Simon Cowell hints his boyband show will boast a 'never-before-seen' format - after his audition search was hit by more woes
- Prince Harry pays tribute to his 'eternal bond' with Princess Diana as he accepts Pat Tillman Award - as Meghan watches on
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- Holly Ramsay and Olympic boyfriend of three years Adam Peaty spark speculation they are are engaged as she sports a huge emerald ring on her finger
- Emma Corrin looks amazing in edgy black mini dress as they join Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman at Deadpool & Wolverine photocall
- Olympic medalist Greg Louganis makes a rare appearance with his dog in LA... after splitting from husband of nearly 8 years John Chaillot
- Love Island's Uma Jammeh and Wil Anderson silence naysayers by looking utterly loved-up during their first night out since leaving the show
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- Serena Williams hits the red carpet with mini-me daughter Olympia, six, and husband Alexis Ohanian before hosting the 2024 ESPY Awards
- Georgina Rodriguez stuns in a skimpy bikini on family getaway while Cristiano Ronaldo looks in high spirits following Portugal's devastating Euro loss
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- Renee Zellweger wraps up to film Bridget Jones 4 Christmas scene with her onscreen daughter after angering A-list stars during filming
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- Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck PUBLICLY list their Beverly Hills marital home for whopping $68M after actor moved out... as divorce rumors reach fever pitch
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- Kim Kardashian goes braless in a sexy dress as she and sister Khloe arrive in Mumbai to attend wedding of Indian billionaire Mukesh Ambani's son
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- Lorde shares racy Instagram selfies after seemingly casting aside issues with fellow pop superstar Charli XCX
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- ITV bosses make shock U-turn to air Love Island at the same time as the Euro 2024 final
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