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BUSINESSES in the Covered Market have been lending a helping hand to NHS staff working on critical care wards. Bonners Oxford Fruit and Vegetables and the Oxford Sandwich Company, based in the Covered Market, paired up with the Oxford Hospital Charity to deliver fruit and vegetable baskets, as well as wellbeing boxes for the nurses. Verity Piggott, who owns Bonners with her husband Gordon, said that they ‘wanted to help’ as soon as the charity contacted them. Mrs Piggott said: “Oxford Hospital Charity got in touch with us, as a business, to see if there was anything we could do to help staff working on critical care wards.