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1 month ago | 
dailymail.co.uk | Sarah Oliver |Lucy Laing
Brave boy, five, battling a rare cancer who Mail on Sunday readers helped to raise £500k for treatment undergoes life-saving quadruple transplantBy SARAH OLIVER and LUCY LAING FOR THE MAIL ON SUNDAY Published: 21:08 EDT, 22 March 2025 | Updated: 21:08 EDT, 22 March 2025 A little boy with a rare cancer for whom Mail readers helped raise more than £500,000 has had a lifesaving quadruple transplant.
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2 months ago | 
msn.com | Lucy Laing |Emma O'Neill |Jackie Annett
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2 months ago | 
dailyrecord.co.uk | Lucy Laing |Jackie Annett
Out of the 132 million babies born globally each year, this rare occurrence has only been reported in a few mothers. Now a proud mum to six daughters all under the age of five, Claudia, 30, chuckles: "I know it's crazy - and when I look at them all, I can't believe it myself!" Neither Claudia, a local government worker, nor her husband Adam, 31, a landscaper, have any family history of multiple births.
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Jan 12, 2025 | 
thesun.co.uk | Andy Robinson |Lucy Laing
ExclusiveEzra is waiting for a transplant donorTHE sister of a boy kept alive on an artificial heart machine is pleading for a new organ for him. Fifteen-month-old Ezra Crawford is the youngest person in Britain using the medical device. And three-year-old sister Freya keeps begging doctors: “When can my baby brother come home?”Mum Bianca, 30, said: “Freya misses him and just wants him to come home.”The devoted siblings cuddled up at the Newcastle hospital on Christmas Day.
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Jan 11, 2025 | 
dailymail.co.uk | Lucy Laing
Few people can honestly say they would give up a kidney for a work colleague. But when Tas Javaid was left desperately ill last year and needed a new organ to survive, her colleague Lisa O’Brien didn’t hesitate – giving her the best Christmas present she could have hoped for. Mother-of-two Mrs Javaid, 55, was in kidney failure after decades spent battling polycystic kidney disease (PKD), which causes multiple cysts to develop within the vital organs.
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Jan 6, 2025 | 
dailymail.co.uk | Lucy Laing
Phil Herbert was working on his computer at home in November 2021 when his right arm suddenly stopped responding. ‘I was trying to close a window on the computer but couldn’t get my right arm to work the mouse,’ recalls Phil, 56, an architect from Loughborough. Worried, and with his speech also becoming slurred, Phil called 999 but was told it would be four hours before an ambulance could attend. So he called his son, who in turn contacted Phil’s ex-wife, who rushed him to hospital.
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Dec 6, 2024 | 
takeabreak.co.uk | Lucy Laing
When choral group The Decibelles wanted to fundraise, they peeled off more than a few notes…The final note was still hanging in the air when a voice piped up and said: ‘How about we go naked?’For Joshua Daniel, musical director and the only bloke in the Decibelles choir, a nude calendar was a great way to raise some money for charity. But his fellow singers — 30 women — looked at him like he was off his rocker.
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Nov 22, 2024 | 
dailymail.co.uk | Lucy Laing
Wrapping her arms around her ten-year-old daughter, Charlotte Fairall faced a heartbreaking task. She had to explain that not only had the cancer Sophie had been diagnosed with less than a year ago returned – there was nothing more that could be done to treat it. ‘What mother wants to break that sort of news to her daughter who hadn’t even made it to her teens?’ says Charlotte. ‘All the hopes and dreams that we had for her… I held her tight as I told her what the doctors had said.
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Nov 18, 2024 | 
dailymail.co.uk | Lucy Laing
After Emily Coles suddenly collapsed at home, she had to put her life on hold while doctors investigated the cause. Emily now knows that her heart had stopped beating for ten seconds, but at the time she had no idea her life was at risk. Emily, 24, had been having coffee with her elder sister Lauren in September last year in her kitchen when she dropped to the ground.
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Nov 17, 2024 | 
thesun.co.uk | Lucy Laing
A BRIDE-to-be who was "thrown out" of a wedding shop for being too big lost a stunning 10st - and wants to renew her vows in a new dress. Iona Thomas couldn't wait to pick out the perfect frock when she began planning her 2018 wedding. At 23st, she was heavier than she wanted to be for her big day, but she was still excited to go shopping. However, when she walked into one store, the assistants took one look at her and told her sharply that they didn’t have anything in her size.
