Our round-up of the funny, fascinating and unusual stories this fortnight

Surviving life in care The twice-Oscar-nominated actress Samantha ...

Sitting beside the hospital bed where my 15-year-old daughter Leoni lay, I clutched her hand. ‘It’s cancer,’ I said, fighting back tears. Seeing her bewildered face staring back at me, my heart broke.

It’s been 15 years since presenters Davina McCall and Nicky Campbell first started hosting Long Lost Family, and the real life friends admit that reuniting scores of long lost relatives for the series

A life-long friend returns A decade ago, Julian ...

Leigh Lawson has embraced acting and poetry with the same determination that sustained Marie Lloyd, the music-hall queen whose memorabilia he collects, as Carla Passino discovers