A grandmother was trampled to death after a horse bolted with its cart at Nowton Park Country Fair, Suffolk, an inquest has heard. After the horse...
Although too often an afterthought, end of life costs should form a central part of this planning; a loved one passing away is a difficult enough time as it is, unattended and unexpected financial costs should not add further upset at a time when loved ones are grieving.
In April 2012, I started a new project that asked a not-so-easily-answered question related to both the past and future: What can 21st century cemeteries become?
Up to 140,000 people die each year where first aid could have helped save their lives. As many people die from cancer, according to stark statistic...
A five-year-old girl has died in a "tragic accident" at a vintage steam fair after being hit by a slow-moving vehicle. Frantic efforts to resuscita...
BBC Business Editor Robert Peston has taken a "short leave of absence" after the death of his wife. A note on his popular BBC blog read: "It is wit...
Police have launched a major investigation after the bodies of a man and two young children were found at a flat. Officers were called after parame...
The two-year-old who died in a canal in Northampton has been named as Jehovah Pembele. Known as ‘Giovanni’, the toddler is understood to have b...
A 24-year-old man has died at the Global Gathering music festival in Warwickshire. Paramedics were called after the man was found unconscious in hi...
A handyman was killed when an empty oil drum exploded as he attempted to make a home made barbecue. The 48-year-old, named in reports as Ian Simps...
We invite strangers to meet in a friendly place and discuss death over tea and cake. We're not trying to lead people anywhere - we think the good stuff is where people are at already. We just create a safe space and, for a couple of hours, death ceases to be a taboo.
The bodies of three children and their father who went missing last week have been found at a remote beauty spot, in what police have described as a '...
It is often said that English people do not like to talk about death. Last week's publication of the first national survey of the bereaved has gone some way to dispelling such a notion.
Of course, death in the TV world is as inevitable as it is in the real one, especially in soaps or in Spooks, where the mortality rate seems to be worryingly high. Especially on public holidays.
An inquest will be held on Thursday into the death of an award-winning television fitness trainer who was found dead at Beachy Head. The body of An...
A British tourist has died on the Greek island of Zante following a parachuting accident, it has been reported. The Foreign Office has named the ma...
New research suggest that we are more likely to die on our birthdays than any other day. According to the conclusions of a study published in the ...
The number of people who have contracted Legionnaires' disease is expected to continue rising until the weekend following a deadly outbreak in Edinbur...
Knocking on someone's door to tell them someone close to them has died - possibly a husband, wife or child - is one of the most difficult jobs the police do. In the Metropolitan Police it was called a 'death message'.
A couple of days ago, I was chatting to comedian Jeff Stevenson who remembered the night of 15th April 1984 when comedian Tommy Cooper may have died on stage during the Live From Her Majesty's TV show - it was screened live by London Weekend Television on the full ITV network.
A driver will appear in court today charged with causing the death of a six-year-old boy in an alleged hit-and-run incident. Peter Renshaw, 22, of ...
Given the degree of fascination with tabloid media and gossip magazines have with the demise of celebrities, you could be forgiven if you believed that death was no longer the taboo subject of old.
A mother today called for improvements to NHS staff training and systems after doctors failed on three occasions to identify an infection which killed...
It's a hard life being a male spider. Sex destroys your genitalia and then your partner will - most likely - eat you. But, for those spiders who m...
An advert by animal rights activists Peta featuring a coffin-shaped pasty has been slammed by obesity campaigners as a "laughable" endeavour to highli...
