Jacqui Thornton

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A pair of handsome male celebrities invite me to click on a game based on their TV show, next to five glamorous young women promoting blackjack, and surrounded by animated slots with names such as

Every morning, an hour before breakfast, Christina Crosbie takes six small tablets with a glass of water. And she thanks the National Health Service (NHS) for saving her life. After standard

Sandra Williams knows about the perils of sugar. In 1998, aged 24, she spent six months in hospital recovering from a terrible car crash, which caused a stroke. Once discharged, she had one leg in a caliper and was unable to use her right hand.

A deadly outbreak of meningitis had started 2,000 miles away in Zamfara State, Nigeria, and it was spreading rapidly. Scientists in the affected region had been unable to identify the pathogen involved and they needed help.

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When Cosmas Bunywera went to school in the Kenyan Rift Valley more than 20 years ago, few children wore glasses, opticians were rare and most pupils’ eye problems were not picked up until it was too

When UK vet Jonathan Cranston woke in the night in 2013 with severe chest pain lasting for half an hour, he was understandably concerned. “It felt like I had been stabbed and I was struggling for

It was a frightening time for a young woman; during the night the pregnant woman in the bed next to her in the maternity ward died from complications.