Artist Banksy pays superhero tribute to Britain's NHS staff

A young boy chooses a nurse as the superhero he wants to play with over Batman and Spiderman in a new artwork by Banksy that encapsulates the gratitude Britons have felt toward the country's National Health Service during the coronavirus crisis.

The painting by the secretive street artist was unveiled at University Hospital Southampton, in south England, on Wednesday (May 6).

The image shows a boy - drawn in monochrome - kneeling beside a litter bin containing Batman and Spiderman toys.

The boy instead plays with a doll dressed in a face mask and nurse's uniform with a red cross - the only colour in the painting - on the front.