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It was a tragedy that shocked the nation even at the height of the Covid pandemic – a 28-year-old nurse who died just days after giving birth to her baby girl. Now, 13 months on, the heartbroken widower of Mary Agyapong is embracing the opportunity to honour the NHS worker with the Remember Me memorial at St Paul’s Cathedral. Miss Agyapong died from the virus on Easter Sunday last year at the height of the first wave, leaving behind her two young children – days-old baby Mary and toddler ...

From Monday, pubs and restaurants will be allowed to serve alcohol indoors in all areas of Scotland, apart from Moray and Glasgow, until 10.30pm. Cate Devine finds out how the pandemic has helped some independent family restaurants seize the initiative from the big chain restaurants RESTAURANT chains come and go in normal times but the effects of Covid-19 have been exceptionally devastating for hospitality. Some of the best-known restaurant groups are feeling the pinch or facing closures and ...

The Remember Me campaign for a Covid memorial at St Paul’s Cathedral has received another stunning boost thanks to a £100,000 donation from City grandee and philanthropist Lord Spencer and his wife. Making the generous pledge, the trading tycoon said he and his wife Sarah felt a ‘national memorial to those we have lost is much needed’. The former Tory treasurer said they were both ‘so glad’ to be able to contribute to the lasting tribute, which is backed by the Mail and will honour C...

Boris Johnson yesterday backed plans for a national Covid memorial at St Paul’s Cathedral, telling the Commons it would be a ‘fitting place of reflection’. The Prime Minister announced the creation of a commission to examine ways for the nation to remember the victims of the ‘gravest crisis since the Second World War’. And he specifically praised plans backed by the Daily Mail to create a magnificent memorial at the cathedral in central London. Mr Johnson told MPs there was a ‘solem...

The Remember Me campaign shifted up a gear yesterday thanks to a stunning £100,000 gift from businessman Mohamed Mansour – taking the cash raised by the Mails drive past £1million. Making his pledge, the Egyptian tycoon said he felt privileged and compelled to support the multi-faith memorial to Covid victims at St Pauls Cathedral after seeing the grief caused by the pandemic. Mr Mansour, who runs his empire from London, said the lasting tribute in the heart of the capital would become a na...

They have arrived in their sackloads – thousands of heartfelt letters each containing cheques from Daily Mail readers sparing as much as they can to help create a national memorial to Covid victims. With donations ranging from £2 to £2,000, more than 2,200 touching messages – including one from a 100-year-old who survived the virus – have flooded in. While hundreds are still to be processed, the letters have so far raised more than £78,000 towards the Remember Me campaign for a lasting...

The Remember Me campaign for a national memorial for Covid victims received another stunning boost yesterday as entrepreneur Matt Moulding announced a £250,000 donation. The pledge from Mr Moulding’s firm The Hut Group (THG) meant the total raised so far has topped £1.3million – more than half the amount needed to build the memorial inside St Paul’s Cathedral. Mr Moulding, 49, said his company felt ‘blessed’ to support the Daily Mail’s Remember Me campaign. Mr Moulding said his fi...

Leaders at St Paul’s Cathedral last night praised the ‘overwhelming support’ shown by Daily Mail readers for the drive to create a new national memorial to Britain’s Covid victims. Readers have given more than £115,000 towards the memorial since the Mail launched the Remember Me campaign to help build it at the weekend, smashing the £100,000 milestone in less than 72 hours. The cathedral is planning a magnificent new entrance and chapel with screens showing a virtual book of remembran...

Boris Johnson last night ‘wholeheartedly’ backed the Daily Mail’s campaign to help create a national memorial for Britain’s Covid victims. As generous donations from readers continued to flood in, the Prime Minister led a chorus of cross-party approval for the drive to build a moving tribute at St Paul’s Cathedral. Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer said he was ‘honoured’ to support the plan, Liberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey said it was a ‘fantastic idea’ and the SNP’s Ian B...

Share Generous Mail readers have stepped in to help raise the £2.3million needed for the oak portico, donating an incredible £65,500 in just two days. It takes the total already raised by St Paul’s to more than half a million pounds. Backing the campaign, Sir Simon said NHS hospitals had treated 400,000 seriously ill patients with Covid-19 – which has claimed the lives of 127,524 across the UK to date. ‘Nurses, doctors, and countless other staff have witnessed first-hand the terrible to...