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Esther Rantzen updates as TV star dies after cancer battle and assisted dying campaign

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Dame Esther Rantzen has died at the age of 86.

Follow our live blog as tributes flood in for the late TV presenter and Childline founder.

She had been diagnosed with lung cancer and revealed in 2023 that it was stage four. She is a high-profile supporter of the Assisted Dying bill, and had planned to go to the Dignitas assisted dying clinic in Switzerland towards the end of her life.

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