Steve Humphrey BBC News Reporting fromBournemouth BBC Samantha Gillingham was a teenager when her mother disappeared in the summer of 1985 A woman whose dad murdered her mum has pleaded with him to reveal what he did with her body before he dies. Samantha Gillingham said she feared Russell Causley – who is now 82...
NHS Confederation A senior NHS leader has criticised the health service, saying his mother received a “black service, not an NHS service” as she died. Lord Victor Adebowale, chair of the NHS Confederation, which represents health managers, described his mother Grace’s death as “undignified”. The 92-year-old died in January of suspected lung cancer, although it...
Emma Glasbey BBC News, Yorkshire West Yorkshire Police Kulsuma Akter was pronounced dead at the scene in Bradford on 6 April last year A mother was stabbed to death in a “cold blooded, calculated, premeditated murder” as she pushed her baby in a pram, a court has heard. Kulsuma Akter, 27, from Oldham, died after...
Jessica Thomas Jessica (left) and Gemma Thomas say they wouldn’t have been able to get through the past 10 years without each other Two sisters whose mother went from being their best friend to stealing their £50,000 inheritance say they have been left feeling anxious and unable to trust anyone. Katherine Hill, 53, from Alltwen...
Athena A court heard Katherine Hill withdrew the money from an account for which she was a trustee A mother has been ordered to pay back £50,000 inheritance she stole from her two daughters. Katherine Hill, 53, from Alltwen in Pontardawe, Neath Port Talbot, and her 93-year-old father Gerald Hill, from Fairwood in Swansea, were...
Theo was with Sciver-Brunt during the T20 series which concluded on Monday and the first one-day international on Friday in Derby, where Katherine was working as a commentator for the BBC. The matches were England’s first under the all-rounder and new coach Charlotte Edwards, who were appointed after Heather Knight and Jon Lewis were sacked...
Lynette Horsburgh BBC News Family photograph Everton FC toffee lady Mary Morgan with Blues player Tommy Eglington Saying goodbye to Goodison Park is “going to be like losing a little bit of my mum”, the daughter of Everton’s first official toffee lady has said. The tradition of handing toffees out at Everton’s stadium dates back...
Kevin Peachey Cost of living correspondent Getty Images More than half of first-time buyers received financial help from their family to make house purchases last year, according to estimates by estate agency Savills. An average of £55,572 was given in loans and gifts by the so-called bank of mum and dad to buyers, it said....
Daisy Crawford Ms Crawford was travelling from Bristol to Belfast on Sunday A mother has said EasyJet should “treat people with a bit of common sense and a bit more kindness” after the airline told her she must pay to bring extra hand luggage containing breast milk and a pump onto a flight. Daisy Crawford...
Nikki Mitchell Home Affairs Correspondent, BBC South•@BBCNikkiM Family photo Janet Brown (left) with her eldest daughter Zara Harden (right) who remembers her loving Mum as “always there for us” The violent murder of mother-of-three Janet Brown “totally shattered” her family and has baffled police for three decades. Janet, a 51-year-old research nurse in Oxford, was...
BBC Martha, pictured with two of her three children, says her life has been transformed after she changed her job to work from home Martha was struggling to sleep, losing her hair, having palpitations, suffering tinnitus and was eventually hospitalised for deep vein thrombosis. She would come home from her job, as her daughter Amelie...
Watch: Jean Charles de Menezes’ mum Maria, his brother Giovani and cousin Vivian say the loss “echoes in our hearts” The 80-year-old mother of a man shot dead in a Tube station by police who mistook him for a terror suspect says she will continue to fight for him and “show the world the truth”....
Liverpool Daily Post/PA A funeral for the unidentified newborn was arranged after a collection by a local Asda supermarket “When I heard about it and I saw her name, I thought ‘that’s not that woman – that’s not the same woman that we’ve lived by all these years’.” That was how a resident of a...
Roger Johnson BBC News, Manchester Hett family Figen Murray’s son Martyn Hett was among those killed in the 2017 Manchester bombing The last time Figen Murray came to Downing Street, the famous black door to Number 10 Downing Street stayed firmly shut. Today they threw it wide open and welcomed her with open arms. It...
Megha Mohan BBC World Service gender and identity correspondent Chithra Jeyaram/ BBC Srija, (L) who fought to have her marriage to Arun (C) legally recognised, says everything she’s achieved has been made possible by her mother, Valli (R) In 2019 Srija became the first transgender woman to legally marry in the Indian state of Tamil...