Captain Tom Moore’s 100th birthday - how he inspired the nation

He was only trying to do his bit, but instead Captain Tom became a national hero. The WWII veteral set out to walk around his garden 100 times to raise £1,000 for charity and achieved his aim 30,000 times over. “I think it’s an absolutely fantastic sum of money, you would never imagine sort of money,” he said. “It’s unbelievable that people would be so kind to give that sort of money to the National Health Service. And maybe I was responsible for starting it, but not deliberately. As his daughter Hanna