When Sara Cox completed her heroic 135-mile marathon challenge for Children in Need, it was her Radio 2 colleague Scott Mills who embraced her at the finishing line.Jubilant but very exhausted, former ladette Sara appeared delighted to see her friend. The only others to greet her were members of her own family.Indeed, Mills, her long-standing friend and colleague was even given the honour of announcing on air the staggering final total that had been raised – more than £10million – on his Radio 2 breakfast show in November…

By the time you read this, Wendy Duffy will probably be dead, or in the final hours of her life at least. Although perfectly healthy and medically declared to be of sound mind, she made a decision to go to a Swiss euthanasia clinic and end her life.Earlier this week the 56-year-old former care worker from the West Midlands finished putting her affairs in order, boarded a plane to Basel and flew off to her certain death, scheduled for today.‘I can’t wait,’ she told the Daily Mail’s Jenny Johnston in a moving interview…

Sam Newman has called for all charges against decorated war veteran Ben Roberts-Smith to be dropped, as the Victoria Cross recipient prepares to fight multiple war crime allegations in court.Speaking on the latest episode of his controversial podcast You Cannot Be Serious, Newman said Australia should support Roberts-Smith amid the ongoing legal proceedings.'Australia should support Ben Robert Smith,' he said.'They should drop all the charges and wipe the frown off their face and get on with life,' he added.Roberts-Smith,…

The revelation that our Attorney General, Lord Hermer, was part of a group of lawyers said to have hounded British soldiers on behalf of Iraqi hoodlums and thugs will surprise no one who served in Iraq or, indeed, in any recent British military campaign.I speak for many thousands of veterans – both full-time and reservist – when I say that what we truly think of Hermer and his coterie of 'human-rights' lawyers is unprintable. But contempt, anger and derision would be good starting places.The comfortable world of the…