JO’S JUMP ON TRAMPOLINE AND COFFEE TABLE FOR TOKYO

ST HELENS amateur club Blackbrook have been putting in the extra yards to help NHS staff and the vulnerable – and uniting the town in the process.

The club has teamed up with the Steve Prescott Foundation and local businessman Andrew Mikhail to ensure those who need it most can have food delivered to their homes.

The initiative has seen comedian Johnny Vegas and former rugby league stars Lee Briers and Tommy Martyn arriving at grateful doorsteps around St Helens.

And it even earned a mention from Hollywood superstar and South Sydney owner Russell Crowe on

JO PAVEY has confirmed she intends to reach a sixth Olympics – despite the postponement meaning she will be almost 48 come Tokyo.

The mum-of-two is one short of the Games appearance record for a British track and field athlete set by javelin legend Tessa Sanderson.

Yet despite the 12-month delay, the long-distance veteran is clinging to the goal of extending her Olympic career into a 21st year.

Pavey is uncomfortable talking about sporting ambition during this period of lockdown when her thoughts are with “our amazing NHS staff”.

But her determination shines through in the novel ways she is finding to keep in shape while home-schooling the children. “There are ways and means,” she said, revealing how she is supplementing lonely hill running with step-ups on to a coffee table and bouncing on her kids’ trampoline.

“I don’t want people to think I’m delusional. 2014, when I was so surprised to get 10,000m gold at the Europeans in Zurich (right), taught me not to put limits on things. You never know what’s possible until you try.”

Nicole Sapstead, chief executive of UK Anti-doping, has warned athletes and coaches against believing they can cheat while the focus is on the coronavirus pandemic.

She said: “If a minority think they are going to get away with it then they are strongly, strongly mistaken.”

Johnny Vegas did his bit to help out the vulnerable in St Helens