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Dame Esther Rantzen gives heartbreaking update on cancer battle as she admits she's celebrating Christmas early so there's 'more chance I'll be alive'

The TV veteran is planning an early Christmas with her loved ones

Evening Standard

Esther Rantzen plans early Christmas to give her chance of being ‘alive’ for it

The Childline founder and former broadcaster was diagnosed with terminal lung cancer in January 2023.

Evening Standard

‘So many young people feel they can’t ask for help’: Dame Esther Rantzen on why she’s supporting The Independent’s SafeCall campaign

The broadcaster and Childline founder says SafeCall will offer a lifeline to children who feel unseen and unheard, as she urges readers to back The Independent’s campaign with Missing People

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The Independent launches SafeCall campaign to help reach every missing child

A lifeline for missing children: support The Independent and Missing People’s campaign to launch a new helpline and help secure safer futures for vulnerable young people

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MP behind assisted dying Bill rejects Theresa May’s ‘cover-up’ claim

The Lords was debating the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill for the first time on Friday.

Evening Standard

Assisted dying: Former PM Theresa May opposes ‘licence to kill’ Bill

Friday is the first of two days of debate in the Lords on the proposed legislation.

Evening Standard

Assisted dying: Bishop to tell peers of ‘grave fears’ in first Lords debate

Supporters of assisted dying, including Childline founder Dame Esther Rantzen – who is terminally ill – have appealed to peers not to block the Bill.

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Tanni Grey-Thompson hits out at abuse as Starmer comes under pressure over assisted dying bill

With Kim Leadbeater’s bill set to be debated in the Lords on Friday, the former Paralympian star athlete who opposes the bill has revealed the abuse she has received from its supporters as allies in the Lords warn Starmer that it needs more time for scrutiny

The Independent UK

Paralympian peer tells of abuse over assisted dying Bill ahead of Lords debate

Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson said the proposed legislation ‘could still fall’ if it runs out of time.

Evening Standard

Do better on fake images, Esther Rantzen’s daughter tells social media firms

The Childline founder and broadcaster’s family said they felt compelled to release birthday pictures to show online images were fake.

Evening Standard

Esther Rantzen speaks of ‘enormous relief’ after MPs backed assisted dying Bill

Dame Esther said it is important that patients with terminal illnesses can make their own choices.

Evening Standard

Peers challenge Esther Rantzen over assisted dying bill comments

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The Independent UK

Rantzen warns peers not to hamper progress of assisted dying law

Dame Esther Rantzen said peers should scrutinise but not oppose the legislation, which cleared the Commons on Friday.

Evening Standard

Assisted dying law closer but MPs’ support narrows in historic vote

The Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill has cleared the Commons and will now move to the Lords.

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Evening Standard

Rantzen: MPs backing assisted dying Bill will protect people from ‘bad death’

Campaigners inside Parliament and outside in Parliament Square were jubilant and tearful following the result of the vote.

Evening Standard

Esther Rantzen and terminally ill preacher make case for assisted dying Bill

The House of Commons will vote on the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill on Friday, which will see it either progress to the Lords or fall.

Evening Standard

MPs vote in favour of assisted dying opt-out for all healthcare workers

The Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill will return to the Commons next month.

Evening Standard

Care homes and hospices must have right to opt out of assisted dying, MPs hear

The Government is neutral on the Bill and any votes MPs make are according to their own conscience rather than along party lines.

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Dame Esther Rantzen’s daughter shares message from mother in health update

Dame Esther Rantzen's daughter shared a brief health update on her mother as she joined the Loose Women panel on Tuesday, 6 May, to discuss assisted dying.

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Lady Howarth of Breckland obituary

Social services director, chief executive of Childline and one of the first ‘people’s peers’

The Independent UK

Families who take loved ones to die in Switzerland no longer breaking law, Esther Rantzen says

Broadcaster says MPs vote means police may no longer prosecute people for helping those who go to Dignitas clinic to die

Evening Standard

Dame Esther Rantzen ‘absolutely thrilled’ at assisted dying vote result

The 84-year-old broadcaster had been at the forefront of the debate in the run-up to Friday’s vote.

The Independent UK

UK politics live: Starmer says Tories used Brexit to run ‘open borders experiment’ in migration speech

Net migration drops 20 per cent this year after record high of 906,000 last year, official figures show

Evening Standard

Rantzen urges MPs ‘to be honest’ about religious opposition to assisted dying

The broadcaster, who is terminally ill, has been a strong advocate for changing the law to allow dying adults to take their own lives.

The Independent UK

Dame Esther Rantzen tells MPs every vote is crucial in assisted dying debate

The broadcaster said as many MPs as possible should listen to the arguments for and against changing the law and make their own decision.

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