All news by author: Emily Retter

Linda Nolan has revealed she has lost her hair for the fourth time making her fear she 'looks like Mrs Potato Head' as her incurable cancer spreads to her brain

Martina Navratilova and Chris Evert were fierce rivals during their days competing for Grand Slams, but have come together to support each other after both being diagnosed with cancer

Shirley's challenge will be in memory of her brother David, who took his life 20 years ago, and to raise funds for the suicide prevention charity Campaign Against Living Miserably (Calm).

Widow Gwenda has lost around half a stone in a year as the cost of living crisis has forced her to cut back on groceries

Dr Jim Down, consultant of critical care and anaesthesia, came to public prominence during the Covid-19 pandemic when BBC crews interviewed him

Amy Dowden was diagnosed with aggressive grade three breast cancer just four weeks ago - but said she is determined to go back to Strictly Come Dancing, adding that everyone has been supportive of her

The 32-year-old professional dancer has spoken movingly to the Mirror following a single mastectomy last week after being diagnosed with grade 3 aggressive breast cancer just one month ago

Bravely giving her first newspaper interview since gruelling operation, she admits hesitantly 'this is the first day I have felt like Amy'

Mirror joins two West Midlands paramedics for 11-hour shift - and witnesses a service at breaking point, with one of the team warning that patients are 'at ever increasing risk of harm'

The Good Life's Penelope Keith reveals that her co-stars Paul Eddington and Richard Briers ended up in hospital after she cooked for them

Rugby legend Rob Burrow's wife Lindsey says delays in funding has left them angry and frustrated, especially after seeing the speed of Covid vaccine research

The former Rugby League star, who has motor neurone disease, is being cared for by his devoted wife Lindsey after devastating diagnosis

Lee Rigby's son Jack was just two when his father was murdered by terrorists outside his barracks in Woolwich, southeast London. His son has now raised more than £53,000 in his dad's name

Last week, US TV cook Martha Stewart, also 81, posed spectacularly in a one-piece on the cover of Sports Illustrated - and Jan has decided to do the same, to deliver a very important message to all older women

The aim of this joint project run is to create for the first time a record of pollinator visits to a temporary garden and see how quickly new plants can attract these invaluable insects

Dame Esther Rantzen has revealed 'nobody knows' if her cancer treatment is working as the TV legend reveals what is keeping her positive amid her stage 4 diagnosis

Speaking for the first time about her treatment, she says: “'I’m on one of the new medications, and nobody knows if it’s working or not. But I will have a scan fairly soon which will reveal one way or another'

Strictly's Amy Dowden announced she was diagnosed with breast cancer at 32, and many of her dancer colleagues and celeb friends have rushed to support her

Strictly star Amy Dowden was on her honeymoon in the Maldives with husband Ben Jones when she felt a lump in her breast.

Strictly Come Dancing star Amy Dowden, 32, has just been diagnosed with breast cancer, however she also battles another serious illness.

Strictly Come Dancing star Amy Dowden, 32, has revealed she has breast cancer and does not yet know if she will be rejoining the hit BBC show

Ahead of the anniversary of Lee's death, Jack Rigby spoke publicly for the first time, telling the Daily Mirror of his 'pride' in his dad and of his pledge to walk and run a marathon in his name

Jack Rigby, 12, is walking and running a marathon over the course of a month for the charity Scotty’s Little Soldiers, which supports bereaved military children and young people

Sergeant Wilfred Ibbotson was among the crew from 617 Squadron RAF that carried out audacious raids on the Mohne, Eder and Sorpe dams in Germany’s Ruhr Valley

Olga Rudenko is editor-in-chief of the Kyiv Independent, a news website now heralded the world over for its reporting of the conflict