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Right-to-die campaigner supports Corrie storyline
The right-to-die campaigner Jane Nicklinson, widow of Tony Nicklinson from Melksham, says she supports tonight's Coronation Street storyline, which shows terminally-ill Hayley take her own life.
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Right-to-die Corrie storyline welcomed by widow
Tony Nicklinson's struggle with life made headlines worldwide. He battled for the right to have doctors help him die peacefully after being immobilised for years following a stroke.
The issue of assisted suicide has been taken up by Coronation Street. Tonight the character Hayley Cropper will take her own life in a storyline about the right to die.
The development has been welcomed by Tony's widow Jane Nicklinson. Our Wiltshire Correspondent Robert Murphy reports.
Jane Nicklinson: Soaps have a duty to tackle this issue
In a full interview with ITV West Country, Jane Nicklinson describes her attitude to Coronation Street's assisted suicide storyline, saying her late husband Tony would have approved of it.
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Wiltshire man in spotlight with Coronation Street storyline
Tony Nicklinson from Melksham is back in the spotlight tonight with an assisted suicide storyline in Coronation Street.
Viewers will tonight see Hayley Cropper take her own life after battling pancreatic cancer. It's to raise awareness of people like Mr Nicklinson who was left paralysed and with had locked-in syndrome after a stroke and wanted doctors to lawfully end his life.