A disabled six-year-old girl at the centre of a High Court life support treatment fight has died, a lawyer said. Pippa Knight had been in a vegetative state at the Evelina Children’s Hospital in London.

A single mother who wants doctors to keep treating her brain-damaged five-year-old daughter has lost a Supreme Court fight.

Doctors can stop providing life-support treatment to a five-year-old girl who has suffered brain damage and is in a vegetative state, a High Court judge has ruled.