A FEW days before Christmas, actress Lysette Anthony was awoken at 8am by someone banging on her front door. She opened the door to two police officers with grave expressions on their faces. 'It's your mother,' one of them said quietly. 'There's been a fire.' In the bewildering hours that followed, Lysette struggled to come to terms with the tragedy that had unfolded that night. Her 82- year-old mother, Bernadette, had burnt to death in a freak accident at her home in the country.
THERE'S a saying that if you knew what the future held, you would never get out of bed in the morning. I was thinking of how true it was this week. I opened the conference organised by Headway Teesside, which supports people who survive brain injury. It's the only charity that I am patron of, which indicates its importance to me. Brain injury doesn't creep up on you. It is generally caused by trauma - an accident in the home, at work or on the roads.
A FAMILY have been left devastated after their toddler son died after becoming entangled in a blind cord. Tragic three-year-old Daniel Grant lost his life in the freak accident at his home in Mayobridge on the outskirts of Newry, Co Down, on Saturday evening.
IN respect of the comments of Peter Gilbert 7/10 about speed. Of course there are idiot drivers out there. However his call for slower driving and more care is misplaced really since after 300 billion driver miles a year, there is less death on the road from all causes than from by accident in the home. Accidents are at an all time low so the UK driver is doing very, very well indeed. There is a massive cost to over-slowing drivers, too. About Pounds 3 billion per annum per mile per hour, (about Pounds 30 billion a year) money that could save many more lives via our NHS and emergency services if it were not being taken from the economy by the insatiable Road Safety Industry which of course include BRAKE who Peter supports. Also of course the prosecution of perfectly safe drivers who hav...
Anyone watching Jackie Hudson as she leaves her house early in the morning and runs half-a-mile to the stable where she keeps her horses might find it hard to believe that she was unable to ride just six months ago. She has made a remarkable recovery since a riding accident in June 2009, when she fell head first on to the road near her home in Hallen, on the outskirts of Bristol near Avonmouth, and suffered brain injuries that meant she spent two weeks in Frenchay Hospital.
The headteacher of a boy involved in a car accident on his way home from school has backed a campaign for a safe crossing outside her school. St Cuthbert Mayne headteacher Kathy Gilfillan said there was 'not one safe place to cross' on the busy Teignmouth Road.
TRIBUTES have been paid to a loving father and step-dad who died after falling off a ladder. Mark Parsons fell in the accident outside his Amlwch home and died days later at the specialist Walton neurology Centre in Liverpool.
THE new rector of a Cheltenham church said his wife's death was a moment which made him the person he is today. The Rev Canon Dr Tudor Griffiths lost his wife of 20 years, Nelleke, in a tragic car accident on the way home from a family holiday in France in 1998.
ABOY who got mangled in a speedboat propeller needed nearly 700 stitches to save his leg. Cian Wyn Williams, 13, will have to learn to walk again after almost having his limb severed in the horrific accident near his home in Porthmadog.
THIS was the scene when the entire cast of West End smash Top Hat wore odd socks in memory of tragic Harry Patterson. The five-year-old was killed in a freak accident a year ago in the steep driveway of his home when he was crushed between his parents' silver Seat and a wall.
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