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.

Lydia Williams, 44, lives with her husband Chris, 50, and their two children, Amelie, 14, and Arlo, 11. Every day, Amelie would come bursting through the front door, full of energy. Her life was a bus

While my hero was losing his fight, I had a battle of my own

When I think back to just a few short years ago, my house was filled with the noise of three boisterous boys, and I couldn’t get a moment’s peace – but I wouldn’t have had it any other way. In January

I’d vowed to stop at nothing to help my husband but as the devastating news kept coming, time was running out.

My baby was taken away and it’d take m e 50 years to find him again