All news by author: Antony Thrower

Wayne Phillips was so taken aback by the excellent care received by his dying mother, Jean, at St David's Hospice he has offered to pay her salary for two years to say thank you

Richard Lindsay was diagnosed with Alzheimer's in 2021 but members of his family say they first noticed the signs as early as two decades before doctors confirmed it

Manjit Singh, 60, has been jailed for sending £1million to a man she met on a dating app who turned out not to exist and still has not been traced by investigating police

The Glades shopping centre in Bromley, south London, has banned youngsters under the age of 16 unless they are with a parent after a brawl which hurt several police officers in April

A man who had a seizure at home and nearly died has spoken of his experiences during ten days he was unconscious as he recovered from the ordeal in hospital

Brave Amelia-Paige, 12, was attacked on the schoolbus on her way home as other children egged on her attacker, leading to two mums arranging a fundraiser in her honour

Amateur goalkeeper Joseph Regan, 22, stole £1,500 from a nurse and a teacher he met on dating apps after convincing them to open betting accounts with Bet265, a court heard

A boy, eight, shocked his mother when he managed to order a fearsome AK-47 to their home via the dark web, which she handed straight to the authorities

Bobby Lee, 78, was killed in a horrifying house fire in London believed to have been started by an exploding e-scooter, as the rest of his family managed to escape the flames

Residents in Springfield estate, Edinburgh, have been told they are set to lose their car parking spaces from outside their homes, even though some have parked there for decades

Thomas Anson, 41, was found dead on a beach in Portugal earlier this year after calling the country home since the pandemic, as her family look to raise funds to bring him home

Jack Johnson, 10, brothers Samuel and Finlay Butler, six and eight, and their cousin Thomas Stewart, 11, died in a frozen lake last year in Solihull, after feeding the ducks and skimming stones

Reports online suggested youngsters aged between six and eleven became poorly after playing in the water at Plymbridge Woods on Saturday

Student Dan Knight, 21, lost his provisional driving licences during a trip to Magaluf and was delighted when he was sent it by the post, with the kind Samaritan now coming forward

Stuntman Jonathan Vero set two world records after setting himself alight as he completed a 100m run in 17 seconds and completed the fastest full body burn without oxygen

Finley May died at just a month old after suffering severe injuries during his assisted birth when consultants at Hull Women and Children's Hospital opted to use forceps

Blackpool has been revealed as having the lowest life expectancy of anywhere in the UK for both men and women, according to official figures from the Office of National Statistics

Emma Rice had visited her doctor when she suffered severe discomfort and was at first told it was because of her contraceptive coil before she learned she had terminal cancer

Springer spaniel Raven nearly died after a trip to Wales' largest natural lake as vets believe she had blue-green algae poisoning, but is now on the mend at home

Morgan Ridler was diagnosed with cancer in April 2021 after his parents noticed he was putting on weight and sadly lost his fight with the disease this morning

Millie Kelly, 11, was rushed to hospital after a visit to the dentist where doctors discovered she had an an autoimmune disease causing inflammation of the bone

Mum of three Mary Monkman, 49, vanished from Loch Doon, Ayrshire, on June 16, leaving her family baffled as to why she had visited the beauty spot from her home 130 miles away

Pranksters have drawn crude penis-shapes around potholes on a road in Stroud, Gloucester, which has been responsible for causing several flat tyres

Keen forager Mateusz Sztajnert-Bluj discovered a large collection of the UK's largest mushrooms known as Dryad's Saddle during a walk in Beecraigs Country Park

The family had been eating their dinner at home in Stretford, Greater Manchester, when a three-foot snake, believed to be a non-venemous, corn snake slithered into their kitchen and hid under their dishwasher