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Sarah-Jane Davidson, 39, Dundee Carrying in the cage, I placed it gently on the hallway table as my son’s and daughter’s faces lit up. ‘This is Peggy and Polly,’ I grinned, stroking the fluffy heads of the green and grey parakeets. ‘Hello, hello,’ bo

During his trial, the court heard how Hill: • Pinned one woman against a wall by her throat. When she left due to his violence, he ‘destroyed’ their flat and killed her kitten. She returned to find the place desecrated and her kitten’s body amongst r

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If you’ve ever been on a diet – and, let’s face it, who hasn’t? – you’ll know it’s as hard to change your mindset as your body. This week, Michaela is super-honest about her reasons for piling on the pounds and what it took to shift them (p24). Maybe

Q Sex is great until I orgasm, then I can’t move because of sudden, terrible cramping pain. What’s wrong? Mabs, Sandwell A Orgasm pain, known as dysorgasmia, usually takes the form of cramps rather like period pains low in your abdomen or pelvis, imm

When Harry and Megan Tooze were shot dead in the early hours of July 1993 at their Llanharry farmhouse, the police were baffled. The bodies of Harry, 64, and Megan, 67, were found hidden in their cowshed. Months later, Jonathan Jones, the boyfriend o

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Katie Clarenborne, 32, Southampton Pulling out my phone, I Googled the words for the 100th time. Cystic hygroma. ‘Our baby could be disfigured!’ I wept to my husband James, then 33. It was September 2018, and James and I had just had our 20-week scan

Q I had a baby 11 months ago and became a single parent. I’m incredibly lonely and want to meet someone, but I have an issue. I tore my muscles during childbirth and, while some were stitched OK, I have a prolapse of my bladder and uterus. I’m seeing

Swinging her bat as her best friend bowls, Alyssa Pursely laughs – just like any other carefree teenager mucking about in the garden. Yet things haven’t been easy for Alyssa. She was bullied from the moment she started school, and doesn’t think the n

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Mandy Whitworth, 49, Stanley Carrying my baby boy Aiden, then 10 months, upstairs, I couldn’t catch my breath. ‘I’m full of cold, too,’ I groaned to my partner Graeme, then 42. It was December 2012, and I should’ve been relishing motherhood. Aiden wa

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Solutions to Chat issue 21 (27 May 2021) Puzzle 1 34210 Puzzle 3 Crepe Puzzle 4 Young Maleficent Puzzle 5 1D, 2A, 2C, 3A, 4B Puzzle 6 Pole Puzzle 7 Glory Puzzle 8 Iain Stirling Puzzle 9 Albertville Puzzle 10 Rosemary Puzzle 12 Nairobi Puzzle 13 Haka

Nominated for the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar, Dogtooth was a 2010 film produced in which country? Solve the puzzle by following the arrows and writing in your answers. Then read down the letters in the shaded squares to find the prize answer. W

She led a charmed existence... The sort of life most young girls dream about. Stunning looks, supermodel career, jet-set lifestyle and an A-lister boyfriend. Bar Refaeli had it all. Or so it seemed. But beneath the glitz and glamour of her million-do

Dear Mum, You always taught me to believe in myself, no matter what. And while I know that most mums say things like that to their kids, to me it meant everything. Being born with learning difficulties meant that, sometimes, I found the outside world

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Chat winners issue 12 (25 March 2021) £1,001 CASH J Stoddard, Barrow-in-Furness £1,000 CASH P Riley, Hoddesdon £500 CASH H Stuart, Hove; J Kirby, Liverpool £250 CASH S Hackett, Scunthorpe £150 CASH M Stubbins, Barnsley £100 CASH E Hadley, Maidstone;