All news by author: Emily-Jane Heap

The parents of William Brown hope King Charles will make a change to the law so their son can be the first person laid to rest at an ancient burial ground beside his school in more than a century

William Brown, who was hit by a van while retrieving a football from the road near Folkestone, Kent, was described as "the sweetest, kindest and funniest boy" by his mum

Richard and Anne Spencer - the elderly parents of Channel 4's Location Location Location star Phil Spencer - were killed in August after their car plunged into a river

Rodney the emu went on the run in the aptly-named village of Loose in Kent before police swooped after the bird was caught doorknocking a pensioner

Former Sky News journalist Glen Oglaza's dogs were among those being walked by Natasha Johnston when she was fatally mauled in January, but a judge has now ruled he can keep his pets

A fifth of respondents think a spirit resides in their home, and 15 per cent say they have woken in the middle of the night to see a ghostly figure sitting on the end of their bed

The operation – the boy’s 28th – should encourage his left leg to grow to the same size as the right one, stabilising his hip and enabling him to walk unaided on his prosthetics

The LifeVac device has already helped to save 1,232 lives, according to its makers and Oliver's parents want all preschools to have airway clearance kits to hand

Raffy Holliday, three, passed away at Great Ormond Street Hospital after contracting herpes. His parents are now campaigning to increase testing for the virus in hospitals

Hundreds of dead starfish, which live on seabeds across the world's oceans, were spotted in the sand in Palm Bay near Margate, Kent by residents and tourists last weekend

Neil Lanciano, 46, was given just a few weeks to live when he was diagnosed with a glioblastoma in 2020 and wife Hayley "felt compelled" to buy him illegal cannabis oil to ease his suffering

Residents in Barking, London woke to chilling screams of ‘help' and said they saw a woman shouting on a balcony - while a hero neighbour caught children dropped from the burning flat where an 11-year-old boy, was tragically killed in a fire

A fire broke out in a second floor flat, in Barking, London, in the early hours of this morning leading to one young boy tragically dying in the blaze as four other people were able to escape

Vape shop worker Sam Jessop, 40, discovered the secret hidden world in Maidstone, Kent, when he went through a trapdoor into the basement to take a gas reading