Rebecca said her mum was ‘wishing us luck’ from her garden (Image: Jonathan Buckmaster) Dame Esther Rantzen’s daughter knocked on the door of No 10 Downing Street on Thursday on behalf of more than 200,000 people who signed an assisted dying petition.
MPs have been given 200,000 reasons to “listen to the voice of the people” and end the cruel ban on assisted dying, Dame Esther Rantzen has said. A petition started by the Daily Express surged past the latest signature milestone after becoming
It is backed by campaign group Dignity in Dying and Dame Esther Rantzen, who revealed in December that she had registered with Dignitas following a diagnosis of stage four lung cancer. Launched in January, the petition urges ministers to allocate Parliamentary time
The Welsh Labour government has been forced to admit there will be changes to the existing default 20mph speed limit. The humiliating U-turn for the Welsh leadership follows a significant backlash to the speed limit imposed last September. The new speed limit
The Daily Express is calling on the Football Association and Nike to restore the St George’s Cross to its original form on the new England kit. The traditional red cross, a symbol of national pride and unity, has been replaced with a
More than 1,000 people have signed a petition to free penguins held in a “windowless box” since the Express highlighted their plight. Freedom forAnimals activists are demanding the release of the 15 Gentoo penguins from a basement enclosure at Sea Life London
A petition on a Tory grassroots website demanding Lee Anderson has the whip restored has hit 10,000 signatures, organisers say. The Ashfield MP was suspended from the Conservative Party over the weekend after refusing to apologise for claiming “Islamists” have “got control”
Dame Esther Rantzen has expressed her heartfelt thanks to more than 125,000 petition backers after the Government promised it “would not stand in the way” if MPs want to legalise assisted dying. The Childline founder, who sparked a passionate national debate by
Swiss activist group Campax have launched a petition against On, the sportswear brand co-owned by Roger Federer, to demand their seamstresses in Vietnam are paid a fair wage. Federer signed with On in 2019 and owns a three per cent stake in
If anyone doubts the strength of feeling in our wonderful, compassionate country that the current law on assisted dying is cruel and must be changed, the extraordinary success of our petition is undeniable proof. Some 112,000 signatures in only four weeks. What