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Toddler aged just 15 months, diagnosed with rare brain tumour after GP’s chest infection ‘misdiagnosis’

Frank, now three, first presented with fatigue and irritability in April 2024, aged one

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Twin sisters orphaned as parents die from cancer nine months apart

Twin sisters Ellen and Laura lost both parents in a nine-month period from 2021 to 2022

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Mum lost leg to flesh-eating disease after thinking she had a cold

Friedel de Beer initially thought she had a cold before she collapsed and noticed blistered red skin on her ankle

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Mum struggling with ‘unbearable’ pain due to hard-to-diagnose condition

The pain is so severe that she has left her job as a children’s social, emotional and mental health tutor

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‘Happy, healthy’ girl left paralysed from neck down after falling ill

Ivy Amos was diagnosed with transverse myelitis, a rare neurological condition caused by inflammation of the spinal cord

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‘Active’ dad diagnosed with terminal cancer after losing weight

William White was first diagnosed with colon cancer in February 2020

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‘Normal’ girl, 4, diagnosed with rare disorder that causes blindness, paralysis

Her parents, Emma Vukic and Max Bridge, say they are in a phase of ‘prolonged grief’

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Dad diagnosed with stage 4 cancer after wife’s death from the illness

Paul Garratt lost his wife of 10 years to breast cancer in 2015 at the age of 31

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Toddler diagnosed with inoperable brain tumour before going blind ‘overnight’

Olivia Taylor was diagnosed with an optic nerve glioma at just 17 months old

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‘I was given six months to live – but am making world record attempts eight years later’

Paul Jameson, 65, was given six months to live after his motor neurone disease diagnosis

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Hugely detailed Sonic the Hedgehog, dog and battleship designs see man crowned as UK latte art champion

Ben Lewis first began working as a barista at Starbucks aged 16.

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Siblings among seven people worldwide diagnosed with incurable disease

Two of three siblings from London carry a mutation of the DHDDS gene

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Pensioner ‘devastated’ after losing his £17,000 retirement savings to ‘cowboy builder’

Eric Jordan says the experience has ruined his home and left him unable to ‘trust anyone’

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Teacher left paralysed by brain bleed travels over 1,000 miles to recover after ‘nightmare’ NHS treatment

Anna Chithrakala, 45, says she tried to “escape” the NHS hospital she was in

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Woman reveals ‘extreme highs and lows’ of swapping London rent for a narrowboat

Kyrie Morris said she found ‘freedom’ when she bought her narrowboat in April 2022

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Baby girl unable to blink or smile diagnosed with rare disorder

A mother first noticed something was wrong during pregnancy when her daughter’s eyes appeared open during ultrasound scans

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A&E doctor thought she had glandular fever. It was aggressive blood cancer

Alice Bolton was running up to 20km just days before her diagnosis

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Girl, 6, diagnosed with cancer after first symptoms were dismissed as ‘growing pains’

The mother of a six-year-old girl who was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin lymphoma has urged other parents to ‘trust their instincts’

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‘I ranked all 272 of London’s tube stops – these are the best and worst’

Tom ranks tube stations under the handle @vaguely.mundane

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Grinch impersonator: ‘I eat raw onion for the character – I want Jim Carrey’s job’

Ryan Swain has been visiting hospitals and care homes in the run-up to Christmas – and now wants to replace Jim Carrey

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Dad given two years to live after cold fingers turn out to be deadly rare condition

The rare autoimmune condition causes Scott Nell’s skin to harden and thicken

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Pumpkin carver who brings ‘terrifying people’ to life earns thousands through side hustle

Jamie says he carves until his fingers bleed

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Mum who fractured back after falling off slide left with ‘Exorcist’ seizures

Kerry Woodhouse, 45, from Telford, ‘landed on a hard floor’ coming off a slide

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‘How I quit my job as an estate agent to travel full time’

Grace Kelly climbed 23 mountains in 2020

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Holiday from hell as woman forced to flee £740 apartment with cockroaches in the toaster

Melissa Hamilton, who was recovering from kidney disease, found cockroaches in the toaster

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