"There was a clean cut so that escalated it up.

“She used to send me ten Canadian dollars to come here and put flowers on the grave, and I still do it.“They’re young men who came from a foreign country and died for our freedom.

“Irvinestown being the town that it is, it’s just part and parcel of Irvinestown.”On Friday, MPs in Westminster have another chance to consider a bill which could legalise assisted dying in England and Wales.In Scotland, a separate assisted dying bill has received the initial backing of MSPs and will now be looked at in more detail.

was introduced by Labour MP Kim Leadbeater.It proposes letting terminally ill people end their life if they:

Once an application has been approved, the patient would have to wait 14 days before proceeding.

A doctor would prepare the substance being used to end the patient's life, but the person would take it themselves."But with recent changes to national insurance contributions on top of general inflationary pressures, the losses on these services have become unsustainable," he said.

The firm had been in discussions with McGuinness's team over a subsidy for the services but had been unable to find a solution, leaving Stagecoach with "no option," Mr Walker said.McGuinness has previously pledged to bring the North East's bus network back under public control for the first time since the 1980s.

However, this could take years to finalise.The Mayor said: "Cuts to services like this show that the current bus system is broken.