All news by author: Jake Meeus-Jones

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Couple reunited five years after falling in love on whirlwind holiday fling
Demi Lamb, 20, met her partner Bayram Kara, 23, on a yacht in Marmaris, Turkey and entered into a long-distance relationship after she returned to her studies in Edinburgh, Scotland
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Charles Bronson sends Christmas hamper to ex-wife from jail to win her back
Irene Dunroe was sent the expensive hamper from inside HMP Woodhill. The 71-year-old divorced from Charles Bronson in 1976 but stayed in touch and recently met for the first time in 50 years
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Exhausted dad's 'parenting headaches' were actually first sign of brain tumour
Thirty-eight-year-old Gary Mackay has been experiencing exhaustion and suspected it was due to working 40-hour weeks along being a dad and keeping up with his social life
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Ghost hunter describes her scariest moment - and odd smell of one poltergeist
Beckie-Ann Galentine got stuck into ghost-hunting a decade ago and has now built a huge TikTok following. Camping in graveyards and abandoned hospitals, she is on a constant search for the paranormal
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Couple give up 'perfect' life and sell everything to travel with their kids
Karla Bennett and husband Matt quit their jobs and sold everything they owned to travel the world full-time with their children - and say they have "everything in life"
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Man who has never owned a smartphone says they're a 'plague' and 'terrible'
Yves Lombardot, who is from Godalming, Surrey, has made the choice not to get a smartphone "long before they were invented" - predicting the "doom" he says they carry
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'We spent £85k to travel the world and take our kids out of school for the year'
Dennis Horstman Maassen and his wife Sheila took their two kids, Oz and Zola, on a year-long round the world trip to countries including Singapore, Germany, Taiwan, Japan and Philippines
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'I'm a former FBI agent - here's the safest room you should book in hotels'
A former CIA and FBI agent has shared her top tips for staying safe when travelling - from using doorstops to always trying to stay in rooms on the third floor
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Bronson visited in jail by ex-wife after nearly 50 years and hopes to remarry
Irene Dunroe, who met Charles Bronson when she was a teenager, visited him to talk in person for the first time in almost five decades after exchanging phone calls and letters
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'A number plate I bought for £120 kickstarted career that made me a millionaire'
Rod Sheilds bought his first number plate in 1981, and claims that the purchase gave him the spring board to build a multi-million pound property portfolio - saying it was “all bought on that one plate”
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'I gave my boyfriend a T-shirt with my face on it - now he wears it everywhere'
Kenzie Greene, 19, surprised her boyfriend, Joseph Burrows, 21, with the gift for their two-year anniversary - with the shirt covered in pictures of her holding fish and her name emblazoned at the top
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'I paid £2,000 to have tiny dots tattooed on my balding head - I feel 21 again'
Anthony Donnellan, 44, opted to have 'scalp micro-pigmentation' rather than a normal hair transplant, which involves having thousands of tiny dots tattooed to the scalp
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Woman feared for life after being bitten by snake while out walking her dog
Carla Parmenter, 46, described how a "great big adder" went after her on Danbury Commons in Essex
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'We have a 38-year age gap - trolls say it's wrong but we're madly in love'
Claudio Spilatro, 63, met his partner, Semie Atadja, 25, on a dating app for 'affluent singletons' - but he has been targeted by trolls because she is younger than his daughter
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Moment thief brazenly 'shoves two golf clubs worth £850 down trousers'
Two men were seen browsing the pro shop at Royal Winchester Golf Club in Hampshire before one of them appeared to stick two clubs down his trousers and then leaving
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'I had 6 litres of fluid drained from legs after rare condition made them grow'
Alisa Vandercruyssen, from Royal Oak, Michigan, America, was diagnosed with a rare condition after researching her symptoms on YouTube - and has since undergone surgery
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Woman gives birth to husband's child 16 months after he died
Jasdip Sumal, from Ruislip, West London, welcomed little Amandeep last month - even though her partner Aman Sumal passed away following a brain tumour in December 2021
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'I went on week's holiday to Spain and didn't use any annual leave'
Amy Irvine spent a week in Marbella, Spain without having to take any time off from work, sunning herself on the balcony and enjoying evenings out eating delicious tapas
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'I earn £4k a month bin diving - you'd be amazed by the designer labels thrown'
Veronica Taylor from Pennsylvania, America, has turned dumpster diving into a lucrative job after discovering just how much money she can make from it
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Woman who lived off crisps and takeaways unrecognisable after losing 11 stone
Mollie Hull, 20, had been obese since she was 10 years, weighing 29 stone at her heaviest - but after undergoing a gastric sleeve op in Egypt she's shed 11 stone
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'I'm a waitress with a fear of ketchup - just the smell makes me cry and panic'
Charlie Everett has a phobia of tomato ketchup and the smell alone is enough to leave her in tears and a state of panic - which proves difficult with her waitressing job in a pub
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'I got pregnant twice in five days - my doctors were as confused as I was'
Mum-of-two Odalis Martinez has given birth to twins who were conceived five days apart in an 'extremely rare' phenomenon that has puzzled medical professionals
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Couple charter £80,000 private jet to fly their Great Dane across the world
Melanie Demi, 26, and her husband, Albert, 27, have been to France, Germany, Austria, Czechia, England and Scotland with their dogs Great Dane Lucas, two, Golden Retriever, Cooper, 15, and Dachshund mix, Brooklyn, six
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Woman makes £400,000 a year selling jewellery made from customers' body fluids
Amanda Booth, 33, dries out the semen samples buyers send her, turning the semen into powder and and mixing it with clay to create 'pearls'
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'I let 96 grieving strangers choose my tats - including names of murder victims'
Mum-of-two Chelsea Rohrbough, 31, has covered herself in nearly 100 self-drawn tattoos requested by complete strangers - and has no plans to stop until her body is completely covered