Eleanor Maver, 74, was found slumped in her North London home by a family member on January 5. Her son said she was riddled with arthritis and spent her final days alive sleeping in a bath chair.

Fiona Clark, a staff nurse, claimed that she had called the broadcaster at 10:10pm and told them that ‘as an ICU nurse who worked in stroke that Rageh Omaar required an emergency ambulance’

Sam West, from Shifnal, in Shropshire, was bitten by a 1.5m-long blunt nosed viper on April 3 as she was getting ready to start a meditation session at the Atlantica Aphrodite Hills hotel.

Among the mourners at designer Roberto Cavalli’s funeral ceremony in Florence yesterday was his girlfriend Sandra Nilsson, a former Swedish model 45-year his junior.

Laura Orrico was just 30 years old – two months shy of her birthday – when her husband of three years, Ryan Cosgrove, was diagnosed with a brain tumor that would eventually claim his life.

Ministers have pledged to ‘look carefully’ at a ban on private clinics after an independent report by paediatrician Dr Hilary Cass expressed concern over their behaviour.

Police were called to a care home after reports of an elderly man threatening staff with a knife.