A 39-year-old Scottish nurse, who recovered from Ebola twice, was today admitted to a special isolation ward in a London hospital for a third time since her return to the UK after contracting with deadly virus in Sierra Leone in 2014.

Pauline Cafferkey was initially admitted to Glasgow's Queen Elizabeth University Hospital but was later transferred to the Royal Free Hospital here. A spokesman for the Royal Free said: "We can confirm that Pauline Cafferkey is being transferred to the Royal Free hospital due to a late complication from her previous infection by the Ebola virus.

She will now be treated by the hospital's infectious diseases team under nationally agreed guidelines." Her condition was described as "stable" before she was put on a Royal Air Force Hercules aircraft to fly to Royal Free Hospital for specialist treatment.