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2 months ago | 
mirror.co.uk | Sarah Ingram |Amy Jones
When teenager Alex Arkell went to the doctors complaining of a bloated and painful stomach, she could have never predicted what doctors would discover next. The 16-year-old from Stirling, Scotland, was on holiday with her family when she first noticed the uncomfortable symptoms and, when she got home, quickly made a doctor's appointment. She was given blood tests and, just a week later, was sent to the hospital for an ultrasound.
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2 months ago | 
metro.co.uk | Sarah Ingram |Kirsten Robertson
Maggie Ratcliffe carries around a small piece of paper in her handbag with instructions in case she has a stroke. With no family and few friends, she is worried that if she ends up in hospital, no one will be around to ensure her wishes are carried out. Maggie, 84, has lived alone since the breakdown of her marriage when she was 27. An only child, her mother died when she was six and her father when she was 18. She has no children and no family.
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Jan 17, 2025 | 
metro.co.uk | Sarah Ingram
In Alex Partridge's Brighton flat there is a half-full suitcase that remains unpacked from when he went on holiday over a year ago. He goes shopping every day because the thought of planning more than a day's meals is beyond him, and each time he will forget his bag for life despite the fact that he has more than a hundred falling out of a cupboard in his untidy flat. Alex finds organisation difficult. He repeatedly forgets to return calls or complete basic household tasks.
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Jan 15, 2025 | 
msn.com | Sarah Ingram
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Jan 13, 2025 | 
metro.co.uk | Sarah Ingram
For years, Isabel Eriksson, 39, couldn't own a fridge. She was terrified of them. The buzzing and humming they made as they clicked on and off caused panic attacks and she would avoid them in other people's homes. Living in the cool climate of Sweden, she kept her food outside instead. That's because the noise of a fridge transported her back to the bunker, a terrifying, windowless room she'd been drugged, taken to and kept in against her will by a man she'd trusted.
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Jan 7, 2025 | 
metro.co.uk | Sarah Ingram
It was a knock on a hotel door that made TV producer Toby Yoshimura realise that his time was up on the infamous Jerry Springer show. He had booked a guest who was a sex worker whose father had been paying her for sex since she was 16, and she wanted to ask him why he did it. The show had put her and her father in different hotels under aliases, but when Toby went to meet her and knocked on her hotel door, her dad answered in just a towel. 'You could tell she was embarrassed.
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Jan 2, 2025 | 
metro.co.uk | Sarah Ingram
On the wall of Dr Jim Swire and his wife's bedroom hangs a painting of their daughter, Flora. She's smiling, dressed in white and clutching a bunch of flowers in her right hand while poignantly holding out a forget-me-not in her left. Of course, the couple could never forget Flora.
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Jan 1, 2025 | 
metro.co.uk | Sarah Ingram
Sabrina Kennedy was three years old when she saw her first spirit. Sitting in the bath, she asked her mother, Linda: 'Who is that man behind you?' Linda brushed the question off, but later, when Sabrina saw a framed picture of her great grandfather on the wall, she pointed to him and said: 'That's him.' Linda, who had adopted Sabrina when she was a baby, told her daughter that the man is in heaven, but the little girl insisted he was still here. That was when the spiritual floodgates flew open.
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Dec 26, 2024 | 
metro.co.uk | Sarah Ingram
It was an unforgettable Christmas Day for Londoner Ani Naqvi in 2004. She'd gone to Sri Lanka to spend the holiday with her best friend who had just opened the Galaxy Lounge Guesthouse in Arugam Bay and they spent the 25th eating, drinking and socialising with guests. On Christmas night, Ani - who was 33 at the time - stayed up late playing cards with friends. 'We were on a beautiful paradise island, everyone was being super friendly and it was a great time,' she remembers.
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Dec 22, 2024 | 
metro.co.uk | Sarah Ingram
There are few things more simple than clicking 'buy now' to get that toy, book, product or gadget delivered to your doorstep in less than 24 hours - especially at this time of the year. But what is the human cost of that convenience? Former Amazon picker, Chris Smalls, is all too familiar with the sacrifice. When he worked at one of the USA's 110 warehouses (or 'fulfilment centres'), he travelled a sometimes six-hour round trip so that consumers never had to wait.
