All news by author: George Mathias

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Woman living life in agony says 'sometimes I wish for a lethal injection'
Lauren Bolton, 29, suffers from "locked jaw" - a degenerative condition which affects the movement of her jaw, ears, and temple and leaves her in excruciating pain
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Police tell woman to 'nick back her £30,000 stolen Lexus from car thieves'
Alexandra Vlad woke to find her Lexus UX gone from her drive. She immediately checked a tracking app on her phone and discovered the last location was around six miles away
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Real-life 'mob wife who made it out of the hood' says she can always spot fakers
Becky Litvintchouk, from Brooklyn, New York, has spoken out in response to the TikTok trend which sees women dress in a way inspired by movie and TV 'mob' wives
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British toddler, 2, becomes youngest in history to reach Mount Everest base camp
Carter Dallas, two, completed the Mount Everest trek on his dad's back with his mum Jade alongside them on October 25. The family are on a year-long trip around Asia
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Christmas-mad dad's £300 electric bill after covering house with 70,000 lights
Paul Bibby, from Chelmsford, Essex, has built-up a huge electricity bill to turn his home into a winter wonderland - he hopes his festive extravaganza will raise money for Essex & Herts Air Ambulance
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'I'm left with £600 a month and can't afford to give my kids a nice Christmas'
Abbie Palmer is left with £600 a month after paying all her bills - and she's sparked some debate by claiming this isn't enough to give her children a nice Christmas
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'I've been in pain every day since I was 13 - doctors said I was being dramatic'
Emma Maxwell has a chronic inflammatory condition known as endometriosis but doctors made her start to think she was 'crazy' after telling her there was nothing wrong despite 'excruciating' pain
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Jack Russell becomes surrogate mum for six kittens – and even produces milk
A broody dog has surprised its owner by taking on the motherhood duties for a litter of six tiny kittens that were found left out in the rain by their own mother
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'My lesbian fiancée transitioned to be a man - but we've made it work'
Previously gay couple Jordan and Rose Blackwood are now in a heterosexual relationship after Jordan transitioned but are now finding it 'hard' to 'figure out where they fit in'
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'We sold our home and pulled the kids out of school to travel the world'
Carl and Ruth Jackson sold their home in Swindon, Wiltshire, bought an expensive campervan, and took their kids Maisie, Pippa and Marley on a big trip around Europe and to Australia
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Girl facing grief of losing both parents in 6 months is adopted by big sister
A 23-year-old from Vancouver, Washington, has adopted her little sister after their mother died of a stroke in February and her father has been given just days left to live due to brain cancer
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Hundreds of vehicles on fire at scrapyard as firefighters rush to tackle blaze
Fire crews rushed to a scrapyard in Rochford, Essex, after a fire broke out on Friday night. Nearby residents were asked to close their windows as firefighters dealt with the incident
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'Drug sweeping US rotted my flesh - I had to cut my dead skin off'
WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT Tracey McCann started taking opiods on perscription after a nearly fatal car crash - but it led to a xylazine addiction which she said turned her skin black and rotted her flesh
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Couple love sperm donor so much they fly him over and want him in baby's life
Danielle Winston and Paige Kennedy-Winston got married in May 2022 and decided they wanted to know their sperm donor rather than go with an anonymous 'serial sperm donor'
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Woman in stitches after ordering bouquet over the phone as owner mishears
Sarah Hollingsworth, who runs baby registry company Poppylist, wanted the flowers to take to an exhibition in San Diego, US. But when her order came, she couldn't stop laughing
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'We swapped 'unsafe' UK for sunny Spain and now save £1,000 a month'
Tim Sunderland and his fiancé Sally Biddall decided to leave their home in Fulham, London and move to Nerja, in Andalusia, southern Spain to work as digital nomads
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Couple buy abandoned caravan park to live mortgage free - but they have no water
Jon and Emilie Jones traded home ownership for a former caravan site in Llanelli, South Wales, and no longer have to pay a mortgage - with plans to transform it into a rural retreat
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'Moonlight Murderer' could be freed as he's 'no longer interested in women'
Klaus Braunig, now 78, has spent half a century behind bars after stabbing a doctor and her teenage daughter to death in their homes in the western German city of Mainz, in the state of Rhineland-Palatinate
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Woman claims ghost of dead dog is making her cat steal toys from child's grave
Demo the cat has a history of bringing strange gifts home from a graveyard, but her latest feat is making her owner think that something supernatural might be going on