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.
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.
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