When Dame Esther Rantzen, the journalist and TV presenter, was diagnosed with incurable lung cancer in January 2023, she assumed she'd "fall off [her] perch in weeks"

Dame Esther Rantzen is celebrating Christmas early with family this year — in case she "doesn't make" the real day.

The journalist and campaigner says she continues to astound herself at making milestones following her incurable lung cancer diagnosis nearly three years ago. The grandmother of five has been battling to legalise assisted dying since her bombshell news but there have been delays on the Assisted Dying Bill and, earlier this year, Dame Esther, 85, said she believes she won't see it passed in her lifetime .

And now the veteran TV presenter, who founded the charity Childline in 1986, has arranged to have

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