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.
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.
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