And the winner is...ITV News London's Fundraiser of the Year announced 

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The famous 'Skipping Sikh' has told ITV News he plans to incorporate some skipping during the 26-mile-long London Marathon this October.

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 some of the items that have been donated to Bushey United Synagogue in Hertfordshire for newly arrived Afghan families

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Paul Nicholls from Essex has not only developed his passion for drawing but says it actually helps with his symptoms.

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It is not the most conventional way to train for a long distance swim, but during lockdown a woman from Surrey had to think outisde the box. Lucy Ashdown Parkes dunked herself in a wheelie bin full of ice at the bottom of her garden every day to prepare herself for the ice cold waters. She has now completed the swim from Northern Ireland to Scotland, only the 34th woman to ever do so. Rachael Brown went to meet her.


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The large piece of cake icing and marzipan base from one of the 23 official wedding cakes features a sugared onlay of the royal coat-of-arms.

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Jane Magnet (right) and Laura Dale after their wedding on the train provider's 'Marriage Carriage'

The couple hoped to get married nearly two years ago but were delayed by a combination of the coronavirus pandemic, finances and logistics.

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Technical fault leaves London's Tower Bridge stuck open 

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A meadow of wildflowers has blossomed at the site of a former Covid-19 mortuary site which was removed a year ago.

The temporary mortuary, set up at the height of the pandemic, was erected on the southern tip of Epping Forest, which covers parts of London and Essex.

A fence was built around the site to allow cornflowers, yellow goat’s beard, German chamomile, cow vetch, meadow pea, corn marigold, common selfheal and oxeye daisies to grow over the last year.

The fence has now been taken down and from Thursday visitors can enjoy the flowers.

The mortuary at Wanstead Flats opened last April and was one of six temporary sites set up across London to store the bodies of people who died from the virus before their commemoration and burial.

After it was dismantled late last summer, the City of London Corporation, which owns the land, began the process of returning it to nature and a wildflower meadow was sown on the site.

Graeme Doshi-Smith, chairman of the City of London Corporation’s Epping Forest & Commons Committee, said: “It’s beautiful and moving to see what has blossomed in this space one year on.

“It has been transformed from a mortuary and returned to the Forest as a grassland in even better condition, with more wildflowers than before.”



The temporary mortuary, set up at the height of the pandemic, was erected on the southern tip of Epping Forest, which covers parts of London and Essex.

Former coronavirus mortuary in Epping Forest becomes wildflower habitat

Jacquie Hughes (second right) celebrating her son Tom Dean's second gold

It came just 24 hours after Dean claimed an impressive win in the 200m freestyle – sparking scenes of elation in the family’s garden in Maidenhead, Berkshire.

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The Olympian's love of knitting and crocheting has long been documented in his special Instagram page which has 112,000 followers.

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