After Angela Coverdale-Robinson missed the last train back to her home in Cambridge on Christmas Eve, she faced a bleak few days alone, hundreds of miles from her family. The 81-year-old grandmother resigned herself to spending a solitary Christmas in a hastily booked bed and breakfast in Newcastle upon Tyne, mourning her brother-in-law Alfie, who … Read more
The Romanian toyboy who inherited his 81-year-old British husband’s cash when he died insists ‘I’m no gold digger’ after relatives branded him a ‘leech’. Philip Clements, a retired Church of England vicar, passed away overnight on May 31 in a Bucharest hospital room that was closed to visitors amid the coronavirus pandemic. Widow Florin Marin … Read more
A spring evening and Catherine Searle emerged from her terrace house, carefully crossing the road to the small patch of grass opposite. There she briefly stopped to scatter some breadcrumbs on the ground — an 81-year-old widow feeding the birds. But as she turned to head back home, one hand was dragged across the bonnet of … Read more
‘Say t’rah to my family’: BBC viewers left in tears at 81-year-old patient’s final words before he dies in heart surgery during Hospital documentary Joe, 81, died during his heart surgery at Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital Viewers have been left in tears after watching him in BBC Hospital programme In days leading up to surgery, he … Read more