Gripping his wife's hand tightly with a smile across his face, this is the heart-breaking moment a 57-year-old British father took his own life at a Swiss assisted suicide clinic (left). In controversial scenes aired by the BBC tonight, businessman Simon Binner played a poignant last message to his wife Debbie (together top right, and bottom right) from his deathbed before turning on the drip that killed him (inset). Viewers were left distraught by the emotional footage which showed the motor neurone disease sufferer saying goodbye to family and friends before administering the life-ending drugs. The scenes were described by viewers as 'the saddest they had ever seen', but even more controversial footage was cut at the last minute after the BBC came under pressure from the Samaritans. The BBC had planned to show footage featuring Simon's lifeless body at the assisted suicide clinic in Basel, Switzerland, but was forced to make last minute changes to the harrowing documentary.
Volunteer PC treated as a criminal after trying to protect the public: Special constable hauled to court on dangerous driving charge after using patrol car to stop thug bikers
One of the unlicensed and uninsured riders crashed into the patrol car that special constable Andrew Blades (left) of Bacup, Lancashire, had parked across the road (right) to stop yobs from racing down it. He and the passenger on board the illegal off-road bike suffered some cuts and bruises. Instead of praising Mr Blades for tackling the hoodlums, senior police chiefs charged him with dangerous driving. His conviction and 12-month driving ban means he can never again work as an instructor.
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Shocking new ISIS video shows four-year-old British boy dubbed 'Jihadi Junior' blowing up four alleged spies in a car bomb
Isa Dare (pictured), the son of Muslim convert Grace 'Khadija' Dare from south east London, is filmed pushing the button (top left) that blows up four alleged spies sitting in a white car (bottom right) in Raqqa, Syria. This is the second time the young boy, who was brainwashed after his mother took him to Syria three years ago, has appeared in one of the extremists' propaganda videos. His grandfather told of how the child begged him to save him just days before he was forced to appear in the first video last month. In what was seen as a 'promotion' of the next murderous release, Dare was made to declare: 'We are going to kill the kuffar [non-believers] over there' - before pointing to the men killed in today's video.
Why the lady will be turning in her grave: Revealed 23 years on, the letter that proves Margaret Thatcher's ex-aide was so wrong to say she'd back Cameron over Europe
Tory MP Sir Bill Cash (inset), who she gave the note to, said it was 'inconceivable' that Margaret Thatcher (left) would have backed David Cameron's (renegotiation and voted to stay in. He said Lady Thatcher had given the letter (right) to him with specific instructions to make it public if there was ever any doubt over whether or not she would have signed up to the 'European project'. The president of the European Council said the continent's migrant crisis could lead to Britain voting to leave the EU.
At the treble! Brother and sisters, 16, become the first ever triplets to serve together in the Army
Born just a minute apart, Lauren, Connor and Mirran Duffy (pictured) have spent their entire lives together, through school and even the Farnborough Military Preparation College. But the teenagers are now pursuing separate paths within the Army and they will have to be split up for the first time when Mirran and Connor go to Harrogate, Yorkshire, for training. An Army spokesman said the triplets would be the first to serve simultaneously. The Army was always bound to be a career path for at least one of them - their father Mark, 39, is a Warrant Officer for the 16 Medical Regiment based in Colchester while their mother Traci, 40, served in Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing Corps and is now a receptionist at a defence firm.
WESTMINSTER TODAY
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Father who delivered his baby daughter after his fiancee went into labour in the middle of the night captured the moment on video - after setting up his camera first
Martin Boyce, 35, from Leicester, had to turn midwife when his 24-year-old partner Holly Dawson's labour moved so fast that she gave birth to Isabelle Olivia at 4.32am on the living room floor with only her mother Polly there to help. He said: 'It was only after everything was over that I remembered I'd set up the camera, and thankfully I'd managed to catch the whole thing on film.'
Mother who was declared bankrupt after falling behind with daughter's school fees to lose her house after judge rules she must leave family's estate
Maxine Turner-Hankinson's husband died from a brain tumour and her father-in-law suffered a stroke after the collapse of his multi-million-pound business. She was made bankrupt after falling behind on the school fees of her 18-year-old daughter Megan (left) and has now been ordered out of a cottage on the £2.5million former family estate. The 47-year-old (right) has lived in the grounds of a Regency mansion (inset) in Derbyshire since 2009 - but a judge has now given her just eight weeks to move out. He found that she was 'mostly resident' in her mansion in Barbados when the UK mortgage was signed.
England star Adam Johnson faces jail after pleading guilty to sexual activity with a 15-year-old girl and grooming
The 28-year-old Sunderland winger turned up at Bradford Crown Court this morning with his girlfriend Stacey Flounders. His trial on three counts of sexual activity with a child and one count of grooming is expected to begin today. The defendant, from Castle Eden in County Durham, had his case moved from Durham.
Heartbroken daughter pays tribute to businessman 'executed' in armed robbery as police release CCTV footage of car used by the killers
Akhtar Javeed (right), 56, was shot in the neck by masked gunmen, during a raid on his company warehouse in Birmingham on February 3. His daughter Lilas (inset), 30, described their family as being 'shattered' following the attack, which police believe was targeted on the warehouse. It comes as police released CCTV footage of a silver Renault Megane (left, circled) which they believe may have been involved in the attack. Mr Javeed was found lying in a pool of blood and was rushed to hospital, but later died from his injuries.
For those in peril: The stomach-lurching moment ship's crew faced terrifying 100-foot wave during North Sea storm
The dramatic footage was filmed by a man standing on the bridge of the ship stranded in the North Sea around 100 miles from land last month. The clip shows powerful surges of water crashing against the vessel, brutally rocking it from side to side and soaking the entire deck. Storm Gertrude caused much chaos across Britain in January, bringing winds of 144mph, blowing down trees and knocking over vehicles.
8,000 black cab drivers bring central London to a standstill in protest against the 'unfair competition' from taxi app Uber
Five thousands black cab drivers have brought central London to a standstill today (pictured) in protest against the 'unfair competition' from mobile taxi app Uber. The drivers are demonstrating (pictured inset) in Whitehall against what they consider is the light touch regulation of the industry harming cabbies and promoting private hire firms. But Uber bosses said the competition it provides could lead to 'service improvements and better experiences for passengers'.
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THE WORLD AT A GLANCE
'The chimneys spewed fire... the smell of burning human flesh was unbelievable': Auschwitz survivor recalls horrors of the Nazi death camp ahead of 94-year-old former guard's trial
Reinhold Hanning (left), 94, is accused of serving as an SS 'sergeant' at the Auschwitz death camp (inset) in Nazi occupied Poland between 1943 and 1944 - a time when hundreds of thousands of Hungarian Jews were gassed to death there. Survivor Leon Schwarzbaum (right), 94, the first witness to give evidence at the trial next week, still vividly remembers how the 'chimneys were spewing fire... and the smell of burning human flesh was so unbelievable that one could hardly bear it'. Sat alongside other survivors, Schwarzbaum said it would be deeply unsettling to see Hanning in the courtroom on Thursday, but believed it was important to give the former SS man a chance to give a full account of the horrors that unfolded at Auschwitz.
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