Embargoed to 0001 Tuesday April 20 Undated RHS handout photo of the Overall Adult Winner in this years Royal Horticultural Society???s annual photographic competition. A gardener pictured amongst the stunning flower garden, full of forget-me-nots, wallflowers, euphorbia, tulips and other spring flowers at Loseley Park Gardens in Guildford, Surrey, photographed by drone by Oliver Dixon. Issue date: Tuesday April 20, 2021.


There were a record number of entries following a growing appreciation of nature during lockdown, with winners drawn from thousands around the world.

Aerial shot of spring garden wins top prize in photography competition

Undated handout photo issued by CHS TV showing Dabirul Islam Choudhury who was made an OBE after raising thousands for Covid-19 relief during Ramadan in 2020. The centenarian fundraiser is to lead a global walking challenge while fasting during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan. Issue date: Sunday April 18, 2021.


Dabirul Islam Choudhury, 101, was made an OBE after previous fundraising efforts raised more than £420,000 during lockdown.

101-year-old fundraiser to lead charity walk while fasting for Ramadan

Spurs announced that Dulux had become the club’s official paint supplier, with the company’s famous fluffy dog getting a tour of the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium. 

'He might do a better job': Spurs and Dulux do not get off to glossy start

Westminster Bridge is illuminated as part of the art installation, the Illuminated River project, by Leo Vilareal. Picture date: Tuesday April 13, 2021.


Blackfriars Bridge, Waterloo Bridge, Golden Jubilee Footbridge, Westminster Bridge and Lambeth Bridge are the latest landmarks to be lit up.

Artist behind illuminations hopes they will be part of ‘celebration’

Joel Whittaker's 31 hour challenge began in Lechlade in the Cotswolds and ended up in Teddington at the end of the river's end of the non-tidal stretch.

Security consultant completes epic 160 mile Thames kayak challenge

Undated handout photo issued by Cancer Research UK of Alan Melinek with his wife Pat. The now 85-year-old whose piano playing has been viewed hundreds of thousand of times on TikTok has said he is Òblown awayÓ by the new-found attention heÕs received. Issue date: Thursday April 8, 2021.


Alan Melinek – who also goes by Piano Grandad – fell in love with the piano from an early age and met his wife Pat in a jazz club in Soho.

‘Piano Grandad’, 85, delights TikTok with performances in wife’s memory

EMBARGOED TO 0001 TUESDAY APRIL 6 File photo dated 25/08/19 of a photographer lining up a shot on a clear night under the Milky Way at Sycamore Gap on Hadrians Wall in Northumberland. Light pollution levels were much lower at the start of 2021 when the UK was in lockdown, compared with a year before, a nationwide star count has found. Issue date: Saturday April 6, 2019.


Light pollution levels were much lower at the start of 2021 when the UK was in lockdown, compared with a year before, a nationwide star count has found.

Citizen scientists see starry night as lockdown curbs light pollution

A woman writes in a heart on the National Covid Memorial Wall on the Embankment in London to after the completion of the painting of approximately 150,000 hearts onto the wall. Picture date: Thursday April 8, 2021.


Roughly 150,000 red and pink hearts have been painted along the Thames Embankment opposite the Houses of Parliament.

Covid memorial wall has ‘got to stay’, say bereaved families

A birthday message for World War Two veteran Charlie Pallett's 100th birthday is displayed on the giant advertising screen in Leicester Square, London. The 10- second message from Help for Heroes pays tribute to the fundraising veteran as he reaches the milestone age and will be played once every minute for 24 hours. Charlie, from Maidstone Kent, has raised over GBP 16,000 for the veterans charity by recording his favourite wartime song 'Keep Right On to the End of the Road'. Picture date: Tuesday April 6, 2021.


Charlie Pallett has raised more than £27,000 for Help for Heroes after going behind the mic for a performance of Keep Right On To The End Of The Road.

Singing Second World War veteran honoured by giant 100th birthday message

Covid memorial mural ‘astonishing’, say organisers a week after unveiling


So far around 130,000 hand-drawn hearts have been placed on a kilometre-long section of wall opposite the Houses of Parliament. 

Covid mural ‘astonishing’, say organisers a week after unveiling

Flying Officer Raimund Sanders Draper (27 December 1913 - 24 March 1943) was a Royal Air Force Fighter Command pilot who gained fame in 1943 after dying in an aircraft crash in Hornchurch, Essex. 

Raimund's bravery not only saved 1,000 children that day but also their children and grandchildren too.

How a WWII Spitfire pilot gave his life to save 1,000 children

As the country marks a milestone of one year since lockdown began in the UK, people have been taking to social media to share the last “normal” photo they took before having to hunker down last year.


On Twitter, the hashtag #LastNormalPhoto offered a flashback to the final moments of normality before national restrictions came in to place

#LastNormalPhoto: Social media users recall moments before lockdown

A Dolly Parton impersonator from Hertfordshire teamed up with writer Anna Morris last year in order to do a parody of Jolene.

Dolly Parton impersonator revels in Jolene parody taken on by musical legend

Cat on the roof delays train to Manchester 

Emma Real-Davies began swapping packets of seeds on Instagram with 20 other keen gardeners as March 2020's lockdown started.

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