A MAN from the Cotswolds who drove two hours from Wales yesterday evening so his children could get a test for Covid-19 was turned away after being told no tests were available.

Steve Hynd, who lives in Stroud, had an appointment booked for 6:30pm at a testing site in Telford, and drove for more than two hours so his children, aged one and three, who were showing symptoms, could receive a test.

Posting on his Twitter account this morning, Steve said: "We arrived at 6:25pm to be told that the whole site was closed because they’d run out of tests."

Steve appeared on ITV's Good Morning Britain earlier today to discuss the incident with the show's presenters Piers Morgan and Susana Reid.

He said: "It was an incredibly mixed picture what was happening at the site.

"It was very confusing and a lot of people were upset but essentially we were told that the site was closed and that they had run out of tests."

He added: "Both of my two young children had coughs so I was trying to follow the Government advice, but I think that there's just a moral responsibility.

"If there's any chance of track and trace working we all need to go and have tests and we need to make sure that happens, it's about protecting everybody around you, your friends and family."