All news by author: Adrian Monti

Being attacked by an ape as a child triggered decades of alcoholism for SAS: Who Dares Wins TV star Matthew 'Ollie' Ollerton, but he hasn't had a drop since August 2019

Paul McStay's nightmare began when he was putting up his Christmas tree with his three young children and collapse for the first time - in the weeks that followed this kept happening

Award-winning poet Raymond Antrobus tells Adrian Monti it took him decades not to feel ashamed of his deafness

Woman found exercise helped after being diagnosed with corticobasal degeneration, which affects movement by causing shaking, jerky spasms and difficulty controlling a limb

Jennie Shearan, a housewife who moved to South Tyneside with her young family in 1953, devoted incalculable hours campaigning for her local British Coal plant to stop polluting the area with emissions such as sulphur dioxide

Pete Morris lost two stone after eating any food left him in agony, but the musician was brought to tears when he was finally diagnosed and treated for a rare disorder