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aol.co.uk | Jill Foster
Bethany Robinson, 27, works for the ambulance service. She lives in North Yorkshire with fiancé Jake Darnley-Robinson, 34, her children from a past relationship, Lyla, eight, and George, six, plus their daughter Ada, three. Here, as the fifth anniversary of lockdown approaches, Bethany reflects on the risk they took by moving in together during lockdown – just three months after they'd started dating...
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1 month ago | 
msn.com | Jill Foster
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1 month ago | 
telegraph.co.uk | Jill Foster
They included a 32-year-old woman who attended an emergency department with severe abdominal pain. The patient's electronic medical record said they were male. As a result, diagnosis and care for cord prolapse was significantly delayed and the patient later gave birth to a baby who was stillborn.
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1 month ago | 
telegraph.co.uk | Jill Foster
When Tracy Pallari hired her first cleaner nearly 20 years ago, she says she felt enormously guilty about it. "I was a single mother with two young children and I was trying to juggle everything with growing a business," says Tracy, now 60, from north Somerset. " I felt I should be able to do the cleaning myself but I needed more time to build up my work."Gradually, though, it became a service she depended on.
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1 month ago | 
aol.co.uk | Jill Foster
Samantha Donnelly*, 37, is an IT worker from North London. She lives with her husband, also 37, and their two young daughters Erica. Here she shares how she became addicted to the thrill of shoplifting. The first time I shoplifted, I barely realised. Scanning my groceries at the self-checkout, a large sack of nappies – worth around £25 – was hanging over the handles of Gabriella’s buggy and I completely forgot to include them in the bill.
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1 month ago | 
dailymail.co.uk | Jill Foster
Like a lot of women, Alexandra Francis simply ‘knew’ she was pregnant when she conceived her daughter, Xaria. Having given birth to five babies already, she was acutely tuned in to the subtle changes – tender breasts, a metallic taste, nausea. When her period didn’t arrive, it only confirmed what she had suspected. However, this experienced mum – who had also suffered two miscarriages – didn’t rush out to buy a pregnancy test.
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1 month ago | 
ca.style.yahoo.com | Jill Foster
Is there still a need to celebrate International Women's Day in 2025? (Getty Images)For more than a century people have marked an annual day celebrating the achievements of women and raising awareness about women’s inequality, and in 2025 this collective coming together is every bit as important. Celebrated on 8 March every year, International Women’s Day (IWD) helps lobby for women and fundraise for female-focused charities.
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ca.style.yahoo.com | Jill Foster |Emma Elms
To mark International Women's Day, we analyse a woman's life in numbers. (Getty Images)Ever wondered when you'll hit your peak earning power? Or when you're most likely to go through the menopause? For International Women's Day, we've documented a woman's life in numbers to see just what's in store for you and how your life compares to a man's, from the moment you're born to the day you die. Age 0Ever since records began in 1838, the number of boy babies has outnumbered girls at birth in the UK.
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1 month ago | 
telegraph.co.uk | Jill Foster
From the moment he met her in 1986 to the day she passed away in 2021, actor Richard E Grant loved to have daily conversations with his wife, Joan Washington. Now, four years after her death, he has revealed that he still talks to her – via email. “I have no woolly spiritual delusion that she’s hearing this, or that I’m going to get a response, but it somehow keeps the connection going,” says the Withnail and I star.
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2 months ago | 
aol.co.uk | Jill Foster
Margaret Ridley, 94, a former nurse, has been married to her husband, Peter, 89, a retired local newspaper editor, for 62 years. They met in 1962 and married the following year. The couple, from Darlington, County Durham, have two daughters aged 60 and 56, and three grandchildren. Here,they share their love story and recipe for a successful marriage. They say that opposites attract. I’ve always been shy, but my husband, Peter, is more of an extrovert with the gift of the gab.
