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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 tribute at St Paul’s Cathedral. The windfall means that – together with more than 4,500 online ...

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 firm wanted to support the campaign because of the devastating impact of the pandemic, including on th...

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 remembrance immortalising the names and pictures of those lost to the coronavirus pandemic. It is hoped the m...

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 Blackford and the Green Party’s Jonathan Bartley also pledged their support. The idea is for a magn...

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 toll this virus has inflicted,’ he said. Never met her baby daughter  Salina never found out the na...