“If she doesn’t want to sleep with me after I’ve paid a lot for a first date, I’ll weigh up the likelihood of that being the case next time. If she’s simply ungrateful or disrespectful, I need to cut my losses and find another prospect.” These are the words of Ali, 29, who believes paying for a date entitles him to sex.

Danielle Graph, 41, from London, was doing her regular check of her daughter’s internet search history when she saw it; coronavirus.

Last week Anita Howell told her boss she would be taking three months of unpaid leave from her job as a supermarket checkout worker because of her fears over the coronavirus.

Holly Clarke hates the film Ferris Bueller’s Day Off. It reminds the 22-year-old of missing the whole of secondary school, having her friends constantly tell her how “lucky” she was never to have to attend class and instead, spending all day in bed because of her ME.

The first Kevin Quigley, 54, learnt about his younger brother Paul Quigley, 49, having contracted coronavirus was when he received a message shared in the family Whatsapp group on 11 March. It was a photograph of Paul in a hospital bed wearing an oxygen mask.

The new domestic abuse bill, which was postponed at the end of 2019 when Boris Johnson prorogued parliament, is due to have its second reading in the House of Commons on Tuesday 28 April. 

It was 7am on a Sunday morning and pregnant Sian Lewis was standing on the pavement with a suitcase waving goodbye to her husband Geraint and two sons as they drove away, leaving her alone at the Wrexham Maelor hospital in north Wales.