A premature baby who was one of the youngest in Britain to contract coronavirus has celebrated his first birthday. Theo Stobbs' battle for life became a symbol of hope at the height of the first pandemic when he was photographed being handed to his mum in a hospital's neonatal intensive care unit.
The infant, weighing just over two-and-a-half pounds, wore just a white nappy and a little woolly hat as he was lifted out of an incubator.
Covid rules meant that both his mother Kirsty Anderson, 34, and nurse Kirsty Hartley needed to put on a green Covid-19 mask before the loving handover could take place.
Today the tot is a happy, healthy baby - who is well on his way to learning to crawl. To reach his first birthday, Theo had to overcome