All news by author: Amy-Clare Martin

Man calls for Britain’s assisted dying laws to change after watching his father's agonising death in the UK - compared to his wife's peaceful passing at Dignitas

New figures show 'oncoming vehicles' incidents have surged in the last year by 13% - in that time three men died when a teenager drove a stolen van in the wrong direction and smashed into a taxi

Medics at the Christie hospital in Manchester are running about 30 clinical trials - and are finding that two-thirds of blood cancer patients with no other treatment options left are responding to the drugs

Brits are bracing themselves for muddle weather in the next 24 hours with first a yellow warning for rain covering swathes of the country, followed by 30C temperatures later on

Bonnie Steward, from Porthleven, Cornwall, makes incredible artwork from old tennis balls, toothbrushes, crisp packet and other discarded waste she finds on beaches in Cornwall

The average daily global sea surface temperature has reached 20.96 C, beating the 2016 record of 20.95 C, the EU’s climate change service Copernicus found

The SAGP injection developed by scientists at the Juntendo University Graduate School of Medicine in Japan has had promising trials with mice and is the third jab which could tackle dementia

Research shows that 15% of us are so overwhelmed by the amount of choice, we would rather just go somewhere we already know

Hollywood actor Kevin Spacey sobbed in the dock as not guilty verdicts were read out to nine charges involving four younger men following his trial at Southwark Crown Court

The animal was rescued from a slaughterhouse in 2016 and spent the years since perfecting her skills. Pigcasso, who holds a paintbrush in her snout, has painted famous faces including Boris Johnson and the late Queen. She has also paid homage to major events including the King’s ­Coronation and Brexit.

Kevin Spacey is facing a number of charges over alleged sexual assaults over a 12-year period from 2001 to 2013. He continues to deny the charges

Kevin Spacey has appeared at Southwark Crown Court in a trial where he faces 12 charges including allegations of sexual assault, indecent assault which he denies

Monique Bertrand, 38, feared there was "no hope" after seven years of trying to conceive and was researching fostering and adoption when she fell pregnant in April last year

William, who is patron of homelessness charities Centrepoint and the Passage, was 11 when his mother Princess Diana, first took him to a homeless shelter in London

The boat was estimated to be carrying up to 750 people when it capsized and sank at around 2am on Wednesday morning, according to the UN migration agency

It is alleged Alfred Dorris, 49, was driving at three times the speed limit when his tram left the tracks on a sharp bend near Sandilands, South London

A study by National Energy Action for a Dispatches probe found three in five over-65s used their heating less than usual - and one in five went to bed early to stay warm

WW2 Flight Sergeant Peter Brown died alone at home in Maida Vale, London, in December aged 96 but an appeal to find his family resulted in hundreds of people attending his funeral

The image, one of two released on Friday, was taken in Buckingham Palace’s throne room, hours after Charles was crowned at Westminster Abbey last weekend

The monarch broke ground for a new laboratory to help to speed up the development of net zero aviation in his first official engagement since being crowned

In celebration of the historic occasion, Deliveroo is trialling the sale of weekend newspapers via its nationwide rapid grocery delivery service Deliveroo HOP on May 6.

Dr Lina Badr is stuck in Sudan with her three children, aged 15, 13, and two, and is desperate to escape, fearing it is "too dangerous" to wait for officials to respond

Jill Allen-King, 83, could face a wait of up to two years for her next companion when her beloved dog Jagger, 11, is retired from service - and she fears more than 1,000 people are facing similar delays

Guided barefoot tours to celebrate Charles’s May 6 coronation will include access to the Cosmati pavement, one of Britain’s greatest medieval art treasures that is usually roped off

Ernesto “Ernie” Colicci died of Covid in 2021, at the age of 66, having spent nearly 40 years carving out a London ice-cream empire alongside his first wife, ­Josephine Colicci