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

My beautiful son is turning strangers’ stares into smiles

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

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