Life or death battles

WHILe attention has focused on the High Court battle over baby Charlie Gard, another life-and- death case has quietly been playing out in the same building.

noel Conway, 67, is also terminally ill. He is in the advanced stages of Motor neurone Disease and wants the law changed to allow a doctor to assist him to die when his health deteriorates further. Mr Conway is in pain and relies on a ventilator to breathe — not unlike Charlie. How bitterly ironic that, while Charlie’s parents are fighting for their son’s right to live, Mr Conway is pressing — with equal desperation — for the right to take his life.

on THe eve of her 40th birthday, Liz Hurley said she’d never appear in public again in a bikini. now 52, the ‘mummy, actress, model, farmer, bikini designer’ is hardly ever out of swimwear, even when she’s gardening. Indeed, she’s posted 22 pictures of...