‘I married the train driver who saved my life’

On a summer afternoon in 2019, nurse Charlotte Lay got ready for her night shift as normal but “wasn’t feeling quite right”.

Within a short space of time she had decided to end her own life close to a West Yorkshire railway station.

But thanks to the kindness of the train driver who found her in crisis, she did not go through with it.

Three years later they married each other and went on to have children.

‘I married the train driver who saved my life’, BBC, October 2024

Boy’s goody bags praised by ambulance crews

A boy who puts together goody bags for ambulance crews brings a smile to all the crews he “hits”.

Finley-Jay, eight, got the idea from a social media group called ‘’Hit the Ambulance gamers”. A hit is a random act of kindness.

Boy’s goody bags praised by ambulance crews, BBC, October 2024