shared a close bond The director of a contemporary art gallery once said: “If you’ve got an Alison Lapper up on the wall, you’ve got to justify it every day.” All her life, artist Alison ...

A funeral procession of VW vans and dozens of motorbikes travelled from the Lappers' home The funeral has been held for the son of the artist Alison Lapper, who posed for a famous Trafalgar Square ...

The £150,000 sculpture called Alison Lapper Pregnant - she was expecting her son Parys when she posed in 1999 - will go on show in the shadow of the Square's other, more illustrious occupants ...

Alison Lapper's son was denied mental health treatment before dying of drugs overdose ...