3 September 2026
My wife is always in my memory
Smudge Smith, 94, has already walked a hundred miles for Severn Hospice. He does not do it to remember Margaret. He already does.
3 September 2026
Smudge Smith, 94, has already walked a hundred miles for Severn Hospice. He does not do it to remember Margaret. He already does.
2 September 2026
On Monday Riga opened a remembrance garden for 54 people killed when a supermarket roof fell in. Relatives had waited since 2013.
1 September 2026
Last year a social worker at Our Lady’s Hospice in Wicklow arranged a wedding for Antoinette and Damien Coakley. It was the first the centre had ever held.
31 August 2026
Tameside and Glossop is the first NHS trust in the country to offer cancer patients a digital book that speaks in their own voice. The recording is of a person who was in the room.
30 August 2026
Marie Curie has put specialist nurses inside a north London emergency department. In six months they saw 280 people. For 73 per cent, it was the first contact with palliative care.
29 August 2026
Researchers found a new TikTok setting this week: name someone to keep the account, or tell the app to delete it. The company still has to be told you have died.
28 August 2026
The Shakespeare Hospice is rated outstanding. NHS funding covers about 12 per cent of it. Channel 4 has just put a national number on the rest.
26 August 2026
White post boxes have gone up in Cheshire East cemeteries for letters to the dead. Nobody opens them. That is the design.