Rock and roll rotter

Natalie Garside, 34, Greater Manchester

The bar was rammed, there was no way I’d get through the crowd in my wheelchair.

‘I’ll get the drinks,’ smiled my best mate Chris, then 19. ‘You wait here.’

It was January 2005, and a few years earlier, I’d been a passenger in a car crash.

I’d been in a back seat.

My spinal cord was partially severed, and my back was broken in four places.

At 16, I was told I’d never walk again.

But I wasn’t the sort to give up on life. As soon as I got out of hospital, I