ONE community-spirited Bolton Council worker has swapped spreadsheets for bed sheets, using pillowcases to create essential kit for frontline staff, each with a special message. When she’s not busy ...

Back in 1947, Connie Diggle’s mum bought her a sewing machine for just £1. Two years later, she used it to sew her own wedding dress and throughout the years, she’s used it to alter clothes to fit her ...

Dragons’ Den star Sara Davies has demonstrated on TV how people can make bags for NHS workers to carry their scrubs home in. On ITV’s This Morning she used old clothes to show how to make the bags, ...

The sewing community is making scrubs bags for care homes and care workers across the Stewartry. Around 60 people have joined the Castle Douglas cluster of the NHS D&G For The Love of Scrubs Group and ...

One of the UK’s oldest volunteers has been busy at work during the coronavirus lockdown. Connie Diggle, 92, has spent an hour each evening making scrub bags from scratch in an effort to help frontline ...

Over the past few weeks, there have been numerous headlines outlining the shortages of uniform and equipment NHS staff are facing, as they fight coronavirus on the frontline. Currently, scrubs – which ...

Anybody with a sewing machine and time on their hands during lockdown is being urged to join a sewing group set up to help the NHS. Did you know with an ad-lite subscription to Milton Keynes Citizen, ...

A GROUP of designers and curtain and blind makers have used their skills to produce thousands of scrubs for NHS workers. Interior designer Dale George from Adelaide Crescent in Hove set up a ...

Sewers of all abilities have put their skills to good use - supporting the NHS and key workers when they needed it most. The Norfolk Scrubs Volunteers group responded to the gaping shortage of scrubs ...