AS NHS staff in Herefordshire continue to work tirelessly on our behalf, farmers have started to show their appreciation to the workers on the frontline.

Jack Pantall, whose brother and sister-in-law both work for the NHS, was the mastermind behind a huge tribute to the health service in one of his fields near Staunton-on-Wye, west of Hereford.

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The brothers had seen other farmers in the country creating NHS logos in their fields, with one farmer in Exeter creating "#NHS". Not wanting to do the same, the pair created their own version with a rainbow over the text "NHS" cut into the field.

"I decided along with my brother we would inscribe NHS with a rainbow over the top into the field," Jack said.

"I came down to do that yesterday morning on a big scale, it's about 60 metres tall by 150 metres wide, it came out really good.

"I said to my brother that we'd done stuff like this in the past just for a laugh, but I said to my brother when all this was starting and they NHS was busy, why don't we do it?

"Great minds think alike, we saw one where somebody had cut #NHS into some corn and I said we best get on and do ours. We put a rainbow on the top."

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A drone captured the stunning video of him creating the masterpiece, which only took 16 minutes.

It was a way for Jack to show his support to NHS staff, including friends and family.

"They are (NHS staff) having horrendous problems with people dying at the moment, it can't be very nice," he added.

"We've got a few nurses and doctors as friends, my brother Harry is a paramedic and his wife is a doctor. That's part of why we're showing our appreciation.

"We've got various friends who live next to us who are all nurses, resuscitation nurses, so they are in the mix of it. It's a small contribution and they were ecstatic over it.

"It really makes you feel good when they know there are people out there appreciating them. You never know someone is appreciating you until someone says."