The service was held at his local church, St John the Evangelist in Shirley, Croydon, south London. A service later took place at Croydon Crematorium before a wake at his golf club in New Addington.

Stars, royals and businessmen have donated more than £1.7m to a foundation set up by former Chelsea striker Didier Drogba – but just £14,115 in UK donations has gone to good causes.

Another real-world example took place during the 2009 H1N1 pandemic. An extra 7 million people became infected and 1,500 died because contagious employees chose to work, according to the American Public Health Association. Your risk of harming …

Clare Klipa Gavanski (pictured with baby Ivana), 35, was told by midwifes at the Queen Alexandra Hospital in Portsmouth that she was being discharged before medics could realise her baby was ill.

Louise Fenlon, landlady of the Three Arrows pub in Heywood, Greater Manchester said she is forced to clean up the detritus from dogging couples from the car park on a daily basis.

When I looked out the window, I saw what seemed like a bright star, it was changing colors from white to gold to brown. I then took out my iPhone 4s and started taking pictures. Then I had realized why take pictures RECORD this, so then I hit the record button. While recording it continued […]

Not content with designing rollercoasters for the living, a Lithuanian designer has created plans for a ‘death rollercoaster’ that would provide a ‘euphoric’ way for people to kill themselves. 

Up to 45,000 junior doctors are expected to stop work for 24 hours,. with the mass walkout expected to cause huge disruption at hospitals already struggling with a surge in winter illnesses.

Wildlife conservationists linked to Oxford University are staging a raffle with the chance to kill a lion as first prize. The extraordinary offer has been condemned by campaigners as sickening and appalling.

Vatican City – Pope Francis vowed on Monday to power ahead with the reform of the Curia, the Church's "diseased" governing body, throwing down the gauntlet to those fostering a climate of intrigue, greed and double-crossing in the Vatican. His annual …