Kate Pounds

2 weeks ago | express.co.uk | Padma Murughappun |Lee Grimsditch |Kate Pounds

Man's romantic gesture turns crispy as hotel staff sprinkle bed with crispsRachel Norman, 36, and her husband Johnnie, 35, decided to mark her birthday with an evening out in Blackpool, Lancashire, where they were met with an unusual surprise. Rachel and Johnnie came back to a bed covered in crisps of various flavours.jpg (Image: SWNS)A husband's attempt to sprinkle a bit of romance on his wife's birthday turned into a comedy of errors when he found their hotel bed blanketed in crisps.

2 weeks ago | nypost.com | Kate Pounds

A husband tried to surprise his wife with a romantic gesture only to discover their hotel bed covered in potato chips — after a miscommunication with staff. Rachel Norman, 36, and her husband Johnnie, 35, went out in Blackpool, Lancashire, to celebrate her birthday and he secretly asked hotel staff to put 30 assorted bags of chips on the bed while they were out to surprise his chip-loving wife. But staff misunderstood, opened the bags, and sprinkled the chips on the sheets like salty confetti.

1 month ago | lancs.live | Kate Pounds

A mum has finally kicked her £150-a-day scratch card addiction - after spending nearly £100,000 on the habit. Marie Ellefsen, 45, said she was hooked when she won £20 on her first-ever scratch card - a £1 ticket, 15 years ago. She used the win to buy 20 more straight away and didn't win on any of them. The then mum-of-two started chasing the jackpot by buying the tickets daily, and within three months she was spending £10 a day on the cards.

1 month ago | dailyrecord.co.uk | Kate Pounds |Gemma Ryder

Magda Berg finally found her birth family after a decades-long search, and says meeting her sisters gave her the sense of belonging she always longed for. An adopted woman met her two sisters for the first time in 44 years - after hiring a private detective to track down her birth family. Magda Berg, 44, hired the detective after her own 20-year search hit a dead end. The mum-of-one paid £1,000 and had the names and addresses of her birth family four months later.

1 month ago | yorkshirepost.co.uk | Kate Pounds

A cat was stuck 20ft up a tree for up to nine days after it hitched a ride to the tip. Owner Raza Ayub, 36, thinks Maine Coon Snowy, two, jumped into a neighbour's car and was taken to the tip by accident the next morning, before escaping into nearby woods, and seeking refuge up a tree. Raza and his daughter Aila, nine, from Bradford, appealed for help on local Facebook groups and put up 50 posters. Eventually a local saw Snowy up a tree.