North Wales gymnastics group perform heartfelt poem as tribute to keyworkers fighting coronavirus

A gymnastics group in Deeside have put together a special poetic tribute to NHS staff who will be taking over their academy as it is converted into a temporary hospital.

Deeside Gymnastics Academy created a video of themselves performing the poem, written by nine-year-old member Esme Spencer-Hughes.

The group usually train at Deeside Leisure Centre but this is one of the sites that will now be used as extra space to treat coronavirus patients.

Venues across Wales, like the Principality Stadium, Venue Cymru and Parc y Scarlets, are being transformed into field hospitals.

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Esme said she decided to write the poem after hearing about the work healthcare staff are doing to tackle the virus.

In the video group members each recite different lines of the poem. After they posted it online, it went viral as people shared the heartfelt thank you.

Deeside Leisure Centre will join two other field hospitals in north Wales that have been named Ysbyty Enfys, or Rainbow Hospital. The other two sites are at Venue Cymru in Llandudno and Bangor University. The three locations will provide an extra 873 beds.

2,000 extra hospital beds will be created at Cardiff's Principality Stadium and health officials said the first of those should be ready for use by Easter weekend.