It is reported that a nurse was fired from a UK hospital after bedding grieving husbands of dead cancer-stricken wives she had cared for.

An NHS source posted that, "Sara was a very popular member of the team at the hospital. When the allegations surfaced people were genuinely shocked”.

"She has been off work for some time but her colleagues were only told she had been dismissed a couple of weeks ago”, source added.

Also, the report says that Sara Dale, 39, allegedly had three such romances with men she had met during her job at Queen Elizabeth National Health Service Hospital in King’s Lynn, Norfolk.

Their terminally ill wives were being treated there and after they died, she embarked on relationships with the grieving widowers, The Sun reports.

The nurse currently lives in South Wootton, Norfolk with Stephen Ellis, 50, whose long-term partner Mel died of cancer last year.

Ms. Dale went off sick - and was thrown off her job in January after a hearing over her professional conduct was made.