Kate Pounds

1 week 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 week 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.

4 weeks 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.

4 weeks ago | msn.com | Kate Pounds

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

WHEN mum Julia Lanni paid £120 for non-surgical fat dissolving injections on her stomach, she hoped it would be an affordable and non-invasive way to improve her confidence. Instead, the 59-year-old was left in absolute agony and required emergency surgery after developing an abscess the size of a fist on her tummy. Julia paid £120 for the 16 Aqualyx injections across her belly at a salon, and just a week later, she was taken to A&E. She has been left permanently scarred and £2,500 out of pocket.