Your help is needed to build post-Covid memorial at Blackpool Victoria Hospital

The Great BTH Knit Revisited project needs knitted and crocheted rainbow coloured squares and flowers to make the structure, which will remember the disease’s victims – and serve as a show of gratitude for our NHS and key worker heroes.

Leading the campaign for the hospital is Nigel Fort, who said: “We want to get the whole community involved, just like we did with our Cloak of Poppies campaign for the 100th anniversary of the First World War. We would like this campaign to be even bigger.

“Many of our community are getting in touch with offers of help and we hope that getting involved will bring people together from a distance and in doing so give thanks to all our keyworkers and remember those who have sadly lost their lives to the virus.”