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"We are doing our best to cut our usage, but I rely on so much equipment to keep me healthy, comfortable and alive that it's almost impossible," she said. "I wish I didn't have to worry about this, I wish all I had to put my energy into was living the best life I can with my little girl in the time that we have left."

A YouTuber who gave birth to her son the day before she was put in a coma with Covid has reunited with the nurse who cared for her. She was put in a coma on Christmas Day and was asleep for three months, being cared for by student nurse Alice Finnigan.

New mums with severe mental health problems are having to travel hundreds of miles to get hospital treatment because all of the specialist beds for patients with acute postnatal depression are in Scotland's central belt.

A priest who had two abortions said it was "deeply wrong" that it could become illegal in parts of the United States.

Two cousins are coming to terms with their scars one year on from being burned in an explosion.

Catherine Arnold, a nutritional therapist who helped organised the Manningtree protest, said: "We are so lucky to live in an area of outstanding natural beauty and we need to protect it. We don't release sewage into our gardens, why would we release it into our rivers?"

Two young women with ulcerative colitis share photos of their stoma bags to normalise the condition.

The smallest town in England hopes to inspire others by banning plastics and protecting its river.

A woman who hid her alopecia for 17 years said she felt more confident to go out without a wig after the Oscars controversy raised awareness.

A teacher has been suspended from a top state grammar school after allegedly using a mug with a cartoon of the Prophet Muhammad on it.

A teacher has been suspended from a top state grammar school after allegedly using a mug with a cartoon of the Prophet Muhammad on it. The teacher at Colchester Royal Grammar School (CRGS) in Essex is thought to have taken the mug into the playground. The school said the matter would be reviewed and "appropriate robust action" would be taken as necessary. The school, which had more students offered Oxbridge places than any other grammar school in the UK last year, has also faced accusations o

So how much is left? One factor gold has on its side though is that, unlike other non-renewable resources like oil, it can be recycled. So we will never run out of gold, even when we can no longer mine it.

During times of volatility, investors tend to move their money out of shares and into what are considered safer havens, like cash and gold. "Covid-19 has disrupted the traditional safe-haven trade and gold's inability to outperform. Periods of extreme risk aversion have forced many traders to diversify into Bitcoin," said Edward Moya, at trading firm Oanda. Some feel this scarcity provides an innate value and shields Bitcoin from inflation, which is becoming a worry. "Its huge volatility hard

Children born to black US soldiers and white British women during World War Two share their stories.

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An autistic boy's mother has thanked a stranger who became her "hero" after he lay down on the ground with her son while he had a meltdown. She said she had walked with her son along the seafront but he "hates to turn around and walk back" and he had one of his meltdowns, during which he gets down on the floor. Mrs Fernando, from Hockley in Essex, said when she explained to passer-by Mr Shelley that Rudy was autistic, he said to the little boy: "Fine then, why don't I lay down here with you fo

Dogs can detect the most aggressive forms of prostate cancer and could help develop a "robotic nose" to find the disease in the future, a study says. "The dogs have been able to identify these very aggressive cancers. This could lead to lifesaving work in the future that would enable us to understand the difference between other diseases of the prostate and those that will go on to kill men," she said. She said the dogs could save "millions of lives around the world" if they were used to suppo

A trial to see whether dogs can detect coronavirus is going "very well", according to the charity behind it. Claire Guest, the charity's co-founder and chief executive, said the dogs were already showing signs that they would be able to sniff out the virus. "At the moment, we are cutting up tiny strands of a tennis ball, and then touching the strands with a piece of paper and hiding the paper, and they are able to find it. They are incredibly skilled." The team expects the 3,200 samples to st

"It brought a tear to my eye when I first saw it. I thought 'this is what it should be like', it was an incredible moment." Because it is such a new drug, long-term outcomes are not known, but Ms Willis said she believes this generation of babies with SMA will be the first to reach adulthood. This time last year was horrendous, she said, as he had just been diagnosed and she did not know whether he would survive.

Students are campaigning for better safety measures on a city centre street that has become "notorious" amid reports of a spate of drink spiking.

Families say they face accusations of bad parenting over their children's little-known condition.

"It brought a tear to my eye when I first saw it. I thought 'this is what it should be like', it was an incredible moment." Because it is such a new drug, long-term outcomes are not known, but Ms Willis said she believes this generation of babies with SMA will be the first to reach adulthood. This time last year was horrendous, she said, as he had just been diagnosed and she did not know whether he would survive.

Emma Moss is determined to beat the odds, having been diagnosed with a fatal disease three years ago.

A YouTuber who gave birth to her son the day before she was put in a coma with Covid said she was so grateful to celebrate his first birthday. "I just knew deep in my soul that this was the right decision and that he would be OK," she said. "My intuition saved him and I believe that he then saved me. I fought and fought to come back to him." Ms Victory was given a 5% chance of survival after she went into multiple organ failure and cardiac arrest when they tried to take her out of the coma.

RPS comments on shortage of LFT supplies in the UK over the Christmas period.

People say their lives have been ruined by long Covid, amid fears the number of sufferers is rising.

Pen Farthing says he wants the truth to be known after being accused of putting pets above people.

The victims were all taken to hospital after being injected on nights out last weekend, South Yorkshire Police said. He said the force recognised the public concern over spiking incidents but admitted the advent of needle use was new. "I don't know what the motive is, all I would say is it doesn't appear to be sexual, but I am keeping an open mind as to why people are doing this," he added. Where did it happen? Ms Wizyszcz, from Claim Back West Street, said the group had been working with ag

"It was clear that the hospital did not want us there. We felt like we were criminals. The security staff would be better off at a nightclub, they were so aggressive. We just wanted to comfort our son. The way he was treated was barbaric and inhumane."